Business Insider: IN BRIEF HIGHER beer sales in Russia have helped a brewery half-owned by Scottish and Newcastle fend off fierce
competition.
Baltic Beverages Holdings, who S&N jointly own with Danish brewer Carlsberg, were losing market share and profits
to their eastern European brewery rivals.
But thirsty Russian punters, the world's fifth-largest market, increased BBH sales by seven per cent in the
first quarter of 2004.
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