July 20 (SeeNews) - The Bulgarian beer market is expected to stay more or less unchanged in 2011, the Union of Brewers in Bulgaria (UBB) said on Wednesday.
For the first time in three years beer sales are not dropping, the union's secretary general Ivana Radomirova told a news conference in Sofia.
In the first six months of the year, the local brewers sold 2,436,700 hectolitres of beer, according to data of the union. Of the total, 2,402,200 hectolitres were sold on the local market.
Last year the sales of UBB's members, which account for more than 95% of the market, stood at 4.8 million hectolitres.
UBB data covers the sales performance of Kamenitza, owned by StarBev, Carlsberg Bulgaria, part of Danish brewer Carlsberg, Zagorka, part of Dutch group Heineken, as well as smaller brewers Boliarka VT and Lomsko Pivo.