Here's a round-up of this week's highlights in the global beer & cider category. We are also running similar round-ups for soft drinks & bottled water and spirits & wine.

It might be insomnia, it might be the light evenings, but Larry Nelson has taken to his television this month and found a classic film with echoes of the attempts of the big brewers to stop ceding share to the little guys.

Heineken UK has released the final two episodes in a Kronenbourg 1664 digital campaign that show former footballer Eric Cantona pretending to swim the English channel.

Late last week, Molson Coors reported a marked fall in half-year net profits on a near-15% drop in sales. Here, just-drinks takes a closer look at the brewer’s Q2 & H1 performance by region:

Lion is to include full nutritional information on its beer labels in what it claims is an industry first in Australia.

China's devaluation of its currency could squeeze profit margins for Scotch producers and other country-of-origin drinks makers, an analyst has warned.

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Budejovicky Budvar has completed an update of the bottling facilities at its brewery in Czech, resulting in a doubling of capacity.

Kirin's Australian drinks subsidiary Lion has promoted Matt Tapper to the newly-created role of managing director, global markets, Lion beer, cider & wine.

A question mark hangs over the success of Tito's Handmade Vodka – how can a product that shifts more than 2.3m cases a year call itself 'handmade'?