help your. morning-after-the- «

Yuletide-party hangover, but

it might ease: your mind: to:

know’ that wine is full of all:
the necessary vitamins and

‘nutritive and medicinal value
of wines.)

And if Ananics, ‘had: ‘her
way, every, hospital ‘in ‘the
country would forgo sleeping

‘pills for their’ patients; and

fi your: body.

Polish-born Mira’ ‘Ananicz,
38, the only female’, ‘wine-.)!
maker employed by a ‘Cana-
dian wine © company, © has
chosen as her. expertise, the

Beer | :
makers’ °
profits
increase :

By VIC PARSONS
(CP) — Despite | the : re-
cession, profits reported this
year by Canada’s three larg-
est breweries have risen
significantly above those of a
year ago.

a ‘or two’ of
the sas aoe do in
Europe. *

“Tve had doctors call ime
asking what proportion of
minerals ‘one can: find | in’a

But the gains are like:cas-

tles built of sand, as’ sales
volumes have been battered
by bad times and changing
tastes. Analysts saya price
hike early in the‘ year ‘ac-
counts chiefly for the: better
performance by © Molson
Breweries of Canada Ltd.,
Carling O'Keefe  Ltd.:: and
John Labatt Ltd...

promising. for:the rest

“The very. large ‘earnings
improvement in the first half
the recand haf, ualess there

crease,”
says analyst ‘Roland Jones of
Pitfield' Mackay

on

sales’ over’ the.’ ‘next “six
months will be flat,” says Leo
Soenen, an analyst with
‘dson Greenshields of
Canada. Ltd. in» Winnipeg.
Soenen predicted that ’'sales
volumes by; the three major
bi in their: fiscal years
to four’ per cent

jeir
ing earnings from operations
than™: brewing,

cleared 1429 million ‘inthe Het
six months: ending Sept ee Semone

up from $36.1 million
earlier, — while © Carling
O'Keefe's ‘profit:\jumped ‘to

$20.2 million from $18 ‘mil:

lon.

In Labatt's: first ‘auarter,
its profit was $20.4 million,
up from $17.7 million a: year

ago. Sets

In its last quarterly report,
however, Molson blamed the
recession and poor weather
during the summer for a 3.1-
per-cent drop in sales vol-
ume, while adding that. im-
proved productivity, tighter
cost control and higher Prices
pushed up. earnings /from
brewing operations.’ Carling
O'Keefe attributed its profit
increase in brewing and wine
to “improved profit ;:mar-

The belief held in some cir-
cles that breweries prosper
in hard times as imbibers try
to drown their woes is ‘only a
myth, © industry observers
say. Beer lovers trim back on
their consumption just. like
everyone else, although Soe-
nen says the beer industry
may not hurt as much ‘as
some other sectors of the
economy.

The decline in sales. vol-
umes show that brewers, too,
are “penalized by the state of
the economy,” says Jones.

“People in a troubled econ-
omy are doing less of every-
thing,” he’ says.‘“You: can
only drink: if you have’ the
money to spend on.it.”

Jones says drinkers are
spending a lot less now’ on
premium spirits and liqueurs
and while there is some shift
to beer, many consumers are
heading for lower-priced
wines. That helps ease the
blow for breweries, like Car-
ling. O'Keefe’ and Labatt,
which have diversified into
the wine business.

Soenen says past experi-
ence shows that beer sales
are not recession-proof.

“People go out less, and
they don't drink as much.”

In the mid-November re-
port, Soenen said the drop in
beer sales this year has been
“much more than we would
have imagined.”

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