1.   Pub Draught Guinness is now the number three premium imported beer brand in Canada after a successful roll-out during the year.

2.   Ammirati Puris, a unit of the Interpublic Group of Companies, has handled Labatt beer brands in the United States that include Labatt Blue.

3.   Anheuser-Busch, which makes the best-selling Budweiser beer brand, has also stepped up its own sales of craft brews in recent years.

4.   BBDO Toronto, part of the Omnicom Group, handles the third Plank Road beer brand, Red Dog.

5.   Both companies use nearly identical brown bottles for their flagship beer brands.

6.   Both companies use identical brown bottles for their respective flagship beer brands.

7.   -- Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, to TBWA London, as the first agency to handle its Miller Genuine Draft beer brand in Britain.

8.   But now that the brewery has become the exclusive U.S. brewer of Kingfisher lager, a leading beer brand in India, brighter days may lie ahead.

9.   Coors Brewing Co. is introducing an unusual promotion for its Coors Light beer brand, with cans that reveal summertime images when they are chilled and exposed to sunlight.

10.   Farmers switch to hard liquor or cheaper beer brands when their income drops.