Beer market's volume shrinks by 8.6% in 2014, due to fiscal pressure

The beer market's volume reached 14.9 million hectoliters in 2014, down by 8.6% compared to that recorded a year earlier, and the per capita consumption went down to 74 liters in 2014, from 81 liters, due to the fiscal pressure on the sector, triggered by the 16% increase in the excise duty in January 2013, Lucian Ghinea, President of the Romanian Brewers' Association, told a Tuesday's press ...

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