Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Amstel Light setting its sights on 50%

" Amstel Light is continuing its march upwards with latest figures showing the brand’s share of the light beer market to be at a staggering 46.9 %, up 6.6% from June 05. "

Full Press Release

[Total beer market around 320 million litres, light beer category is around 1.5% of the total market - 4.8 million litres. Hence this gives Amstel Light 2.25 million litres (up 150,000 litres)]

[Please post a comment if you have more accurate figures]

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

so this means Steinlager Premium Light is losing out to Amstel Light?

12:42 pm, May 31, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the light ber market isn't growing, then I guess it must be.

Another case of Lion allowing an import to supplant New Zealand brands (isn't Stella outpacing Steinlager ?)

Are we losing our beer identity ?

1:49 pm, May 31, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In the case of such boring beers does it really matter?

3:01 pm, June 02, 2006  

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