Wed, 20 Jul 2005: Corporate acquisitions in Latvia: an investor’s perspective…
Jul 20, 2005 Latvia
Latvia saw at least a 10-fold increase in acquisition deals in different industries: utility, food processing, soft drinks manufacturing, retailing, textile, financial services. It is expected tha...Tags: Acquisition Deals, Baltics, Consolidation, Corporate Acquisitions, Economic Activity, Economic Structure, Favorable Location, Financial Services, Finland, Foreign Investors, Investor, Lithuania, Merger And Acquisition, New Leaders, Perspective, Redistribution, Riga, Soft Drinks, Sphere, Ties
Thu, 13 Nov 2003: Olvi Group posts mixed results…
Nov 13, 2003 Baltics
In September A.Le Coq, Olvi's chief Estonian subsidiary, acquired OU Finelin, which in turn owns 100 percent of the beverage producer AS Osel Foods.The acquisition price was 10.3 million euros, th...Tags: Acquisition Price, Beverage Producer, Competition Authority, Competition Rules, Final Approval, Juices, Le Coq, Merger, Mineral Waters, Olvi, Six Months, Soft Drinks, Subsidiary, Vitamins
Thu, 13 Nov 2003: Olvi Group posts mixed results…
Nov 13, 2003 Baltics
In September A.Le Coq, Olvi's chief Estonian subsidiary, acquired OU Finelin, which in turn owns 100 percent of the beverage producer AS Osel Foods.The acquisition price was 10.3 million euros, th...Tags: Acquisition Price, Beverage Producer, Competition Authority, Competition Rules, Final Approval, Juices, Le Coq, Merger, Mineral Waters, Olvi, Six Months, Soft Drinks, Subsidiary, Vitamins
Thu, 28 Aug 2003: Nordic booze markets facing major changes…
Aug 28, 2003 Baltics
The Federation ofthe Finnish Brewing and Soft Drinks Industry claimed that only a very largecut would significantly reduce the incentive to travel to Estonia to getbeer, where prices are 20 percen...Tags: Baltics, Booze, Brewers, Excise Tax, Finland, Finnish Breweries, Finns, Helsinki, Managing Director, Mattson, Nordic, Price Differences, Soft Drinks
Thu, 2 Dec 1999: Latvia revs up tax on motorcycles…
Dec 2, 1999 Latvia
The tax rate was established as 0.5 lats ($ 0.86) per kilo for coffee and 0.02 lats per liter for soft drinks.In the future, the excise tax will also be imposed on motorcycles. For bikes made less...Tags: Bikes, Coffee, Cubic Meter, Enactment, Engine Capacity, Excise Tax, Kilo, Lats, Latvia, Liter, Motorcycle, Motorcycles, National Budget, Revs, Soft Drinks, Tax Rate
Thu, 28 Oct 1999: Brewers give soft drinks the hard sell…
Oct 28, 1999 Baltics
BBH puts out 48 percent of all beer produced in the Baltics.Not surprisingly, representatives from Saku Brewery and Aldaris applauded the agreement with PepsiCo.This is the first step for Saku to ...Tags: Aldaris, Annual Report, Baltics, Bbh, Beautiful, Beer Market, Beverage Producer, Brand Name, Brewers, Distinctive Brand, Mineral Water, Non Alcoholic Beer, Pepsico, Portfolio, Saku, Soft Drink, Soft Drinks, Spokesman, Spokeswoman, Stranglehold
Thu, 30 Sep 1999: Soft drinks, coffee will get more expensive…
Sep 30, 1999 Baltics
The total consumption in the first six months of this year was some 33.2 million liters of soft drinks.The excise tax would also be applied to all kinds of coffee, whether in beans, ground, instan...Tags: Coffee Beans, Consumption, Excise Tax, Kilograms, Latvian Parliament, Liters, Parliament, Producers, Raw Material, Six Months, Soft Drinks
Thu, 16 Jul 1998: Summed up…
Jul 16, 1998 Baltics
It reloaded 36,000 tons of cargo during the first half year of 1998. Latvia's small ports in total reloaded 211,500 tons of cargo during the first five months of 1998. (BNS)NO INFLATION FOR LITHUA...Tags: Alcoholic Drinks, Communications Services, Consumer Goods, Cpi, Five Months, Foodstuffs, Half Year, Inflation, Latvia, Lithuania, Lithuanian, Ports, Soft Drinks, Statistics Department, Tobacco