date:Oct 25, 2012
n after it won a battle to take full control of Tiger beer maker Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) last month.
However, they were down 2.6 percent at 46.42 euros at 1110 GMT, making them among the weakest in the FTSEurofirst 300 index of leading European stocks. The STOXX European food and beverage index was 0.5 percent higher.
Analysts said they had expected western European volumes to be largely unchanged year-on-year, with drinking spurred by warmer, drier weather in August and September.
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