From The International Herald Tribune:
The beer giant SABMiller made big investments in China and India in the 1990s, hoping to conquer markets that together have more than a billion potential beer drinkers. But today, SABMiller sells more beer in Sichuan, a southwestern Chinese province of 43 million people, than all the beer companies combined sell in India.
“Despite India’s reputation as the world’s biggest democracy where business is booming, we have found it a really difficult place to do business compared with China,” said Andr√© Parker, managing director of Africa and Asia at SABMiller, the world’s second-largest beer company with $14.5 billion in annual sales. InBev of Belgium is the largest beer company.
