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.

🧵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.

#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.

#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.

@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.

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.

#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.

#Russia's invasion of #Ukraine has dominated feeds for 22 days, making it hard at times to focus on the facts. This thread will take you through some of the charts we have created to help cut through the noise and take a look at the numbers behind the story. As of today, almost three million people have left Ukraine, according to data from the @Refugee.