The 2011 Import and Export Market for Beer and Malt Beverages in Ireland

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on beer and malt beverages in Ireland face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying beer and malt beverages to Ireland? How important is Ireland compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of beer and malt beverages vary from one country of origin to another in Ireland? On the supply side, Ireland also exports beer and malt beverages. Which countries receive the most exports from Ireland? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?

This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for beer and malt beverages in Ireland. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for beer and malt beverages for those countries serving Ireland via exports, or supplying from Ireland via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.

In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where Ireland fits into the world market for imported and exported beer and malt beverages. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Ireland in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each