Happy #BeerDay🍻 A mini 🧵Over the past two decades, companies such as @AnheuserBusch@abinbev, @Heineken or @carlsberg have consolidated hundreds of beer brands under their roofs, creating an illusion of choice for consumers around the world.
Nobody in Europe comes close to the Czechs when it comes to drinking beer. According to data from the our Consumer Market Outlook, Czechs get through more than 100 liters of the booze on average per capita each year.
#Germany comes in at second place, with an average of 75 liters of beer consumed per capita in a year, just ahead of neighboring #Austria (71 liters). The #UK comes a few rungs down the ladder (51 liters), after Ireland (62 liters) and the Netherlands (60 liters).
As the brewing industry is still recovering from the aftershock of the Covid-19 pandemic, alcohol-free beer has become one of the bright spots in a troubled beer sector. What are your thoughts on buzz-free beer?
This International Beer Day, brewers can surely take heart from the incredibly successful decade they have behind them. Historically, the U.S boasted 4,144 breweries in 1873, a number that fell drastically by the middle of the 20th century.
🧵Are you ready for the #PremiereLeague to kick off? Who do you think will win it all this year? Defending champions @ManCity are the favorites to win the league once more.
#ManCity's Premier League title last year marked the club’s fourth title in the past five years and its sixth in both, the Premier League and the Abu Dhabi era.
Do you bet on sports? If you've watched a Premier League game on TV in the UK in the last decade, you will have undoubtedly been met with such phrases as 'bet in play now', 'latest live odds' or '£50 free bet' during the game.
#Inflation - 🧵The world's political and economical elites are meeting in Davos, Switzerland, for the @WEF, for the first time since the start of the pandemic. One of the major topics is sure to be the concerning inflation surges around the globe.
After the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February, the #IMF revised their inflation projections upwards – by 1.8 percent for developed countries and 2.8 percent for developing nations.
Strong economic recovery following the end of the lockdown era of the coronavirus pandemic caused the price of goods and services to rise in 2021 in many developed nations, according to the @OECD.
#Music streaming - A mini 🧵. According to @IFPI_org's latest Global Music Report, worldwide recorded music revenues totaled $25.9 billion last year, up 18.5 percent from the previous year’s total of $21.9 billion.
Last year alone, 80 million people jumped on the streaming bandwagon, bringing the total of global subscription users to 523 million by the end of 2021.
Despite the fact that, thanks to streaming services, it has never been cheaper and more convenient to listen to music, music #piracy is still prevalent across the world’s largest music markets.
@Potus announced that there will be #FoodShortages in the U.S., and the prices for food are rising all over the world, mostly due to the #RussianUkrainianWar. As shown in FAO data, this is not a new trend. 🧵
Both Russia and Ukraine are among the top 5 #wheat exporters, fueling fears that the crisis could exacerbate inflation pressure in the food aisle. Wheat futures rose to the highest level since 2008, building on top of a rally that had been going on since mid-2020.
After recovering from a coronavirus dip in early 2020, the global FAO Food Price Index has risen quite steadily, reaching a new all-time high of 140.7 point in February 2022.
What will the immediate impact be of the #EU's deal with the U.S. to provide at least 15 billion additional cubic meters of #LNG? 1/3
2/3 #Russia currently supplies 40 percent of the natural gas imported by the EU, so which alternatives could countries turn to in the event of Russia turning off the tap? The continent would have to look towards suppliers of liquefied natural gas, which typically arrives by ship.
3/3 Europe has some of the highest gasoline prices in the world. Most of Western Europe was paying upwards of $6.00 for a gallon of #gas as of March 14, with some of the highest prices being charged in the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Italy and Norway.
#cybercrime - A🧵- Did you know that losses connected to internet crimes were estimated to be $6.9 billion last year? This is a significant increase from $42.2 billion in 2020.
More than 40 percent of experts surveyed by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty think that cybercrime and business interruption will be the biggest business risks in 2022.
Data from security firm Blackfog shows that from January to November of this year, 244 ransomware hacks were publicized, an increase of 25 percent compared to the same period in 2020.