Craft brewers are maintaining WA's reputation as the premier beer-making state in Australia, but the challenges they face are as diverse as the breweries themselves.
Fremantle boutique brewer Little Creatures has celebrated International IPA Day in style, announcing it will add an India Pale Ale to its stable of permanent beers.
THE 2012 wealth creators' list would not be complete without acknowledging the fortunes generated by the development of the Little Creatures brewery and subsequent listing of Little World Beverages
WITH some experienced campaigners suggesting the current mergers and acquisitions market is the worst they have ever seen, there is plenty of finger pointing to overly exuberant deals of the past f
Shares in Little World Beverages have soared on the Australian Securities Exchange, after national beverages giant Lion launched a $380 million cash takeover bid for the Fremantle-based boutique br
Perth-based boutique brewer Little World Beverages has entered a $51 million, three-year conditional debt facility with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Boutique brewer Little World Beverages, owner of the Little Creatures and White Rabbit beer brands, has announced a 35 per cent increase in net profit after tax and a plan to construct a $60 millio
Enhanced cellar door and brewery operations of Little World Beverages' flagship Little Creatures products has delivered increased revenue, operating cash flow and net profit after tax of $4.5 million, a jump of almost 33 per cent on the previous year.
PHIL Sexton, the co-founder of Matilda Bay Brewing Co, Dome Coffees, and Little Creatures, believes there are three key elements to staff training in hospitality.
The recent decision by two of Western Australia's microbrewers to sell up could present growth opportunities for the industry's remaining players, according to Gage Roads CEO Nick Hayler.
Fremantle-based boutique brewer Little World Beverages Ltd is planning to launch a new beer brand which will be developed in a new brewing facilty to be built in the Yarra Valley, near Melbourne, as it reports a 14 per cent lift in annual net profit.
Boutique brewing company Little World Beverages Ltd has reported a 20.6 per cent boost in total revenue to $16.7 million in the half-year ended December 2007.
Fremantle-based Little World Beverages Ltd, the owner of brewery Little Creatures, has achieved a 9.4 per cent increase in net profit to just under $3 million, after a series of write offs.
Perth-based craft brewing company Oz Brewing Ltd aims to raise $1.5 million through an IPO to establish a café and microbrewery at the old Miss Maud site on Fremantle's cappucino strip.
Fremantle-based Little World Beverages Ltd has posted a net profit for the half year of $1.4 million, up 9.3 per cent on the previous year, which the company says is in line with its forecast for the period.
Perth is set to have a new brewing company, with property developer Adrian Fini a key player in the Mindarie development of a micro-brewery pilot plant for the new Indian Ocean Brewing Company led by hospitality veteran St John Hammond.
