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...number of mid-sized breweries - those generating between 500,000 and 100 million liters per year - has shrunk from 610 in 1995 to 466 today, mostly through closure. Analysts see the next decade being dominated by even more mergers, closures and acquisitions. Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Ian Shackleton sees 70% of Germany's beer flow ending up in the hands of just a few global players by 2010. He points out that thirsty outsiders like Heineken in the Netherlands and Interbrew in Belgium have already taken over 18% of Germany's production since 2000; big brewers like them have...
...perfected the art of brewing in the Middle Ages. Yet even a German giant like Holsten is dwarfed by Heineken - which produced 11 billion liters in 2002 and is awaiting regulatory approval for its purchase of Austria's 2.6 billion-liter-per-year BBAG brewery for €1.9 billion. Shackleton explains that when Dutch and Belgian brewers began seeing their local markets shrink in the late 1980s, they responded by beefing up their exports, hammering the "premium" theme and buying up other breweries. German brewers, by contrast, were protected by the beer purity laws - which lost their teeth when...
...hard to set a price on Antarctica's allure, though. What British explorer Ernest Shackleton called "Antarctica fever" is there for all to see in the eyes of the Canadian, Australian and American guides on the Akademik Ioffe. It leads them back time and again to the great, blinding white south. It is also utterly contagious, for after a few days of this heartbreakingly beautiful landscape, pure light and incredibly clear water, no one is immune. Taking in the ethereal magnificence from the relative protection of my kayak (wet suit carefully donned), I felt like I had left the earth...
Under the guise of Sir Ernest Shackleton, senior Justin Bosley turned in seventh place finishes in both the initial and final heat, completing his 2000 meters in 6:02.50 in the first stage and 6:03.80 in the second...
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