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E-Malt.com Flash 18b
April 30 - May 03, 2026
Quote of the Week
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Currency Rates
Base Currency: Euro
on May 01, 2026 |
Base Currency: US Dollar
on May 01, 2026 |
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1 EUR = 1.1701 USD
1 EUR = 0.8647 GBP
1 EUR = 1.5961 CAD
1 EUR = 1.6346 AUD
1 EUR = 185.1290 JPY
1 EUR = 5.8368 BRL
1 EUR = 87.5795 RUB
1 EUR = 7.9954 CNY
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1 USD = 0.8545 EUR
1 USD = 0.7390 GBP
1 USD = 1.3641 CAD
1 USD = 1.3969 AUD
1 USD = 158.2050 JPY
1 USD = 4.9885 BRL
1 USD = 74.8513 RUB
1 USD = 6.8334 CNY
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Equities of the Largest Breweries
Average Market Prices Change Trend
| May 01, 2026 |
French Barley/Malt
Crop 2025
Bulk |
EUR/T |
% |
| 2RS Malting Barley (FOB Creil) |
196.00-198.00 |  |
| 6RW Malting Barley (FOB Creil) |
193.00-195.00 | |
Feed Barley (FOB Creil) |
183.00-185.00 | |
| 2RS Malt (FOB Antwerp) |
534.00-536.00 |  0.11% |
| 6RW Malt (FOB Antwerp) |
530.50-532.50 | 0.11% |
French Barley/Malt
Crop 2026
Bulk |
EUR/T |
% |
| 2RS Malting Barley (FOB Creil) |
230.00-232.00 | |
| 6RW Malting Barley (FOB Creil) |
215.00-217.00 | |
Feed Barley (FOB Creil) |
197.00-199.00 | |
| 2RS Malt (FOB Antwerp) |
572.00-574.00 | |
| 6RW Malt (FOB Antwerp) |
553.50-555.50 | |
German Malting Barley
Crop 2025
Bulk
Ex Farm |
EUR/T |
% |
| Average Malting Barley Price |
161.50-163.50 | |
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World: Molson Coors Beverage Co. enjoys 2% sales increase in Q1
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Vietnam: Sabeco posts 56% increase in first-quarter profit after tax
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EU & UK: Carbon dioxide supply shortage threatens Europe’s beer and beverage sectors
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Australia: Barley crop forecast reduced to 13.5 mln tonnes after record crop in 2025
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UK: Winter barley crop prospects remain positive but weak demand from maltsters persists
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Kenya: Heineken subsidiary threatens Asahi’s bid to acquire Diageo breweries in Kenya
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The Netherlands & Russia: Heineken still present in Russian market with shares in two beverage companies
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USA & UK: Diageo shares jump as Trump removes tariffs and restrictions on Scotland-Kentucky whiskey
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USA: Boston Beer Company reports drop in first-quarter net revenue
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These Days in Business History
30 April
1506 - Philip of Bourgondy and England sign trade agreement
1925 - Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity
1939 - NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fairopening day ceremonial address
1939 - NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with Franklin D. Roosevelt at opening of New York World's Fair
1995 - Sun Microsystems launches Java, the universal Internet programming language that brings "white space" and greater interactivity to millions of websites and Internet users
01 May
1876 - The Amsterdam Stock Exchange Association (Vereniging voor de Effectenhandel) is created by 465 Dutch brokers; from now on, only members of the association are allowed to trade on the exchange
1878 - The Tokyo Stock Exchange Co., Ltd., is established, primarily to trade bonds
1925 - The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members
1972 - Economist Milton Friedman rings the opening bell at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to inaugurate the world's first day of trading in foreign-currency futures
02 May
1896 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average is first published
1913 - William R. Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co., is born in Ann Arbor, Mich
1985 - Quantum Computer Services is incorporated in Delaware. In 1991 it changes its name to America Online, Inc.
1998 - The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy
03 May
1830 - 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1919 - America's 1st passenger flight (New York - Atlantic City)
1965 - 1st use of satellite TV, Early Bird Satellite
Agenda
May 2026:
04 - 07: Worldwide Distilled Spirits Conference 2026 (EICC, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
04 - 10: Budapest Beer Week 2026 (Budapest, Hungary)
19 - 21: Expo Antad & Alimentaria Mexico 2026 (Expo Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico)
29 - 30: Copenhagen Beer Festival 2026 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
29 - 30: Tallinn Craft Beer Weekend 2026 (Tallinn, Estonia)
June 2026:
08 - 10: Brewing Conference Bangkok 2026 (Muang Thong Thani, Impact Challenger Hall, Jupiter 4-5, Bangkok, Thailand)
09 - 11: Brasil Brau 2026 (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
09 - 10: IGC Grains Conference 2026 (2 Savoy Place, London, UK)
17 - 18: Global Beer Summit 2026 (Brussels, Belgium)
July 2026:
17 - 18: London Craft Beer Festival 2026 (London, UK)
August 2026:
06 - 08: VIETFOOD & BEVERAGE - PROPACK VIETNAM 2026 (799 Nguyen Van Linh Street, Tan My Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
21 - 22: Beervana 2026 (Wellington, New Zealand)
September 2026:
12 - 13: Bruges Beer Festival 2026 (Bruges, Belgium)
19 - 04 October: Oktoberfest 2026 (Munich, Germany)
24 - 27: Mondial de la Biere 2026 (Montreal, Canada)
26 - 28: Whisky Live Paris 2026 (Paris, France)
October 2026:
08 - 10: The Great American Beer Festival 2026 (Denver, USA)
15 - 16: Salon du Brasseur 2026 (Parc Expo Nancy, France)
23 - 25: Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2026 (Stockholm, Sweden)
28 - 29: Brew Asia 2026 (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
31 - 03 November: Planete Biere Rennes 2026 (Rennes, France)
November 2026:
10 - 12: Brau Beviale 2026 (Nuremberg, Germany)
23 - 25: 16th Iberoamerican VLB Symposium Brewing & Filling Technology (Panama)
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Brewery News
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World: Molson Coors Beverage Co. enjoys 2% sales increase in Q1
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Molson Coors Beverage Co. is raising a small drink to the start of the year as the company reported a 2% sales increase in
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Romania: Beer market records a 4% decline in 2025
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The Romanian beer market recorded a 4% decline in 2025 compared to the previous year, falling to 14.4 million hectoliters, the lowest level reached
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Vietnam: Sabeco posts 56% increase in first-quarter profit after tax
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Saigon Beer-Alcohol-Beverage Corporation (SABECO) reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2026, with profit after tax rising 56 per cent year-on-year, providing
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EU & UK: Carbon dioxide supply shortage threatens Europe’s beer and beverage sectors
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Carbon dioxide supply is tightening across parts of Europe and the UK’s beer and drinks industry, driven by reduced output from ammonia and fertilizer
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Kenya: Heineken subsidiary threatens Asahi’s bid to acquire Diageo breweries in Kenya
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A regulatory complaint filed by a Heineken subsidiary in recent weeks is threatening to disrupt the $2.3 billion acquisition of Diageo’s East African Breweries Limited (EABL) by Japan’s Asahi Group, Semafor reported on April 29.
Kenya Wine Agencies Limited (KWAL) accused EABL of abusing its dominant market position, and raised concerns that the acquisition could entrench alleged long-standing anti-competitive practices by the brewer, according to three people with direct knowledge of the complaint, including two working for KWAL.
The people told Semafor that the company wants the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) to review the deal’s potential effects on the market and set conditions for its approval to promote fair competition for smaller players. The regulator acknowledged queries from Semafor regarding the complaint and promised to respond “as soon as possible,” but had yet to do so by the time of publication.
The complaint by KWAL noted EABL’s sustained dominance across segments including beer and spirits, and highlights several alleged anti-competitive practices by the company, such as abuse of their market power by locking in distributors and suppliers to exclusive agreements that enables them to dictate prices.
“Our fear is that these factors will be amplified should the merger go ahead,” a KWAL source
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The Netherlands & Russia: Heineken still present in Russian market with shares in two beverage companies
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Heineken is still present in the Russian market with shares in two beverage companies, Follow the Money reported on May 1, despite promises to withdraw completely from the country after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The beer company owns 25% of Grand and Grand East, which are both Russian subsidiaries of the Mongolian beverage group APU, documents available via the Dutch Chamber of Commerce show. Heineken also has a stake of the same size in APU itself.
Heineken CEO Dolf van den Brink said that “we didn’t know we had these stakes”, when questioned after the company’s annual shareholder meeting in April by Follow the Money.
In 2023, Follow the Money reported that Heineken launched 61 new products on the Russian market since the start of the Kremlin’s invasion a year before, partly as an alternative to other brands such as Guinness and Coca-Cola, which had left. This was despite earlier promises to cease operations in Russia.
Months after that report, Heineken announced it had fully withdrawn.
But its shareholdings list, which in the Netherlands is an overview of all subsidiaries and companies in which the parent company holds at least a 20% stake, still tells a different story.
By law, companies must file
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USA: Boston Beer Company reports drop in first-quarter net revenue
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The Boston Beer Company, Inc. reported on April 30 its financial results for the first quarter ended March 28, 2026. Key results were:
First Quarter 2026 Summary:
• Depletions decreased 4% and shipments decreased 6.9%
• Net revenue of $433.9 million decreased 4.4%
• Gross margin of 49.3% up 100 basis points year over year
• GAAP diluted loss per share of $13.88, which includes non-recurring litigation expenses of $15.52 per share
• Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $1.64
Capital Structure
• Ended the first quarter with $164.1 million in cash and no debt
• Repurchased $31 million in shares from December 29, 2025 to April 24, 2026
“We were encouraged by early signs of improvement in the total beer category in the first quarter,” said Chairman, Founder and CEO Jim Koch. “While our depletions improved and it remains early in the year, our portfolio has not yet fully matched the improvement in category trends. The operating environment is dynamic, and we are executing with focus against our summer plans, including meaningful advertising support. Our strong balance sheet and highly cash generative business position us to invest in our brands and return cash to shareholders, with the previously announced potential legal payment well within our capacity.”
“Today we are modestly narrowing our guidance range to reflect our
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Barley News
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Australia: Barley crop forecast reduced to 13.5 mln tonnes after record crop in 2025
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Seeding for winter crops has commenced slightly earlier than usual in the southeastern Australia, following rains that have created favourable soil moisture conditions. However,
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UK: Winter barley crop prospects remain positive but weak demand from maltsters persists
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Crop prospects for winter barley remain positive, with UK plantings progressing well and showing a considerable improvement on last year, Farmers’ Weekly reported on
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Whisky News
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USA & UK: Diageo shares jump as Trump removes tariffs and restrictions on Scotland-Kentucky whiskey
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U.S. listed shares of Diageo jumped 4% on April 30 after U.S. President Donald Trump said it that he would be removing tariffs and restrictions related to Scotland's ability to work with the state of Kentucky on whiskey and bourbon, Yahoo! Finance reported.
"People have wanted to do this for a long time, in that there had been great Inter-Country Trade, especially having to do with the Wooden Barrels used," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
The announcement comes at a time when King Charles is on a visit to Washington to strengthen ties between two long-term partners in U.S. and UK.
The U.S. and UK signed a deal in 2025 allowing Washington to impose a 10% baseline tariff on imports of most British goods.
Diageo's CEO on April 29 had said that he plans to streamline British distiller's regional management team as part of the turnaround plans.
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