“From January 2022, we will increase the price of draft beer by about three percent. And we plan to increase the price of packaged beer during the first quarter of next year, “said Ježková. The state-owned brewery has gradually increased the price of beer to export customers this year.
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According to Kubín, the price for a pint of beer will rise by about fifty pennies. The main reason why the national brewery will rise in price is rising costs.
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“Unfortunately, rising energy and costs – whether in terms of payroll or transport – are forcing us to make that adjustment. Some costs even rise in the hundreds of percent, some in units. We made a calculation and it turned out that we had to make this adjustment. Basically, it’s an increase in costs, “said Kubin.
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Budweiser Budvar expects to pay hundreds of millions of crowns more for materials next year than this year. This is the impact of rising energy, fuel and other raw material prices on operations. The can supplier has already announced to the brewery that it will increase in price by tens of percent. Already in October, Petr Dvořák, the director of Budvar, said so.
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According to the director, Budvar fulfilled its growth plan for the first three quarters of this year. Revenues from beer will be around CZK 2.9 billion this year, last year it was 2.73 billion, according to the annual report.
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The others also became more expensive
Since October 1 this year, the largest Czech brewery, Plzeňský Prazdroj, has risen in price by an average of three percent. It affected most products, on average the price rose by 46 pennies per pint. For the first time in three years, this also concerned draft beers.
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Staropramen raised prices on July 1. The Samson brewery in České Budějovice, which belongs to the Belgian-Brazilian company AB InBev (ABI), has raised the price of a pint of draft beer by a crown since 1 November. He is negotiating the price of the bottle with the chains.
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