MICROBREWERIES STRUGGLE
May 1st, 2003
BY MONICA DOBIE, in MontrealMICRO-BREWERIES in Quebec, Canada, are to launch an advertising campaign to inform consumers of alleged unfair practices big beer companies use to make their products less accessible to the public, after they lost a legal complaint over the issue.The move comes after Canada's Competition Bureau dismissed claims that the country's large beer companies, Molson and Labatt used uncompetitive practices to prevent Quebec microbreweries from gaining market share, such as pressuring retailers to reserve premium shelf space for their ...
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