
Tomorrow, SABMiller will report its full second-quarter and half-year numbers. Here just-drinks looks at the group’s activities in the three months to end of September:
- In July, the group revealed it was in line to receive around US$1bn from from the sale of its holding in South African gaming, hotel and entertainment group Tsogo Sun Holdings.
- Keeping up with the green agenda, the company said it was aiming to halve its carbon footprint at all its global breweries by 2020
- SABMiller lost a two-year trademark battle with Australian craft brewer, Wayward Brewing
- In August, it emerged the group was losing its European FD to Beam Suntory
- Later that month, SABMiller completed its divestment of Tsogo Sun Holdings
- In early September, the company launched its first Scotch whisky brand
- In mid-September, Heineken confirmed that it had rejected an approach from SABMiller over a possible takeover
- SABMiller launched production at its first brewery in Namibia