Court orders SMC to pay rival P130m (Yehey!)
BUSINESSMAN Lucio Tans Asia Brewery has won the first round of its legal battle with its much bigger rival, San Miguel Corp., after a court found it guilty of hoarding over a million of Asia Brewerys beer bottles and thousands of its plastic cratesand apparently to cripple its distribution system.
No butts about it: Miami Beach aims to clean up beaches (Miami Herald)
When Commissioner Jerry Libbin walks along the shore in South Beach, he notices that garbage cans are no longer overflowing with scraps of food, beer bottles and pizza boxes after the weekend.
Court orders SMC to pay rival P130m (Manila Standard Today)
BUSINESSMAN Lucio Tan’s Asia Brewery has won the first round of its legal battle with its much bigger rival, San Miguel Corp., after a court found it guilty of hoarding over a million of Asia Brewery’s beer bottles and thousands of its plastic crates—and apparently to cripple its distribution system.
An original idea bears fruit (Boston Globe)
Tough economic times call for ingenuity, thrift, and more than a little optimism. So when life handed urbanites Giordana Mecagni and her husband, Peter Chipman, fruit, they decided to make juice.
Brotherhood of brewers find frothy good times (Rapid City Journal)
When the last homebrew store in Rapid City closed nearly 13 years ago, beer-making hobbyists found each other by networking through a local club. Over the years, the Ale Riders Homebrew Club has successfully brewed hundreds of gallons of beer and garnered more than 70 members.
To save cash, wineries go to less-weighty glass (The Columbus Dispatch)
HOPLAND, Calif. -- Thin is in at Fetzer Vineyards, at least when the subject is wine bottles. The northern California winery is switching to a lighter-weight glass to cut shipping costs and give the environment a break.
Colombia Land Mines Toll Tops World as FARC Sow Them in Retreat (Bloomberg)
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- From a helicopter over Colombia, Bajo Grande looks like a ghost town. It has roads, a soccer field, a school and 60 rusted-roof dwellings, but no people.
