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Despite our growing taste for craft brews, smaller beer makers face a huge disadvantage

  • Written by Andre Sammartino, Associate Professor in International Business & Strategic Management, University of Melbourne
imageIndependent beer producers more than doubled in number between 2004 and 2009.www.shutterstock.com

Australia is awash with new independent breweries. Craft beer producers have grown from less than 100 in 2005 to upwards of 400 today. On average, a new physical brewery opens almost weekly. This is surprising given the significant tax disadvantages...

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