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The European beer market is flat. There is growth in premium, specialty markets and own-label brands, but these are high margin and low volume.

We had lots of chances, they just didn't go in for us.

Bass would give them a good footprint in Britain as well as an entry into the U.S..

The tentative agreement is not clear. If the employer didn't feel that way, that there was a problem, they wouldn't agree to sit down with us today.

Beer is not an international beverage. There are very few international brands, and those [like Budweiser] are based on distribution rather than actual consumption.