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Africa’s Intoxicating Beer Markets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

Abstract:

African beer markets are increasingly being commercialized. Select brewers are going to extraordinary lengths to attract new customers on the continent. Economic and business “life cycle” models usually indicate that this can only go on for a finite period, that industries, companies, and products, just like organisms, must move through stages of emergence and maturity to inevitable decline. Such expectations may be too rigid in the African context. Such are the continent’s dynamic economic and social realities that commercial brewers, and especially a handful of multinational corporations, look capable of staving off decline—an intoxicating prospect for them indeed.

Résumé:

Les marchés de la bière africains sont de plus en plus commercialisés. Des brasseurs sélects font des efforts astronomiques pour attirer de nouveaux clients sur le continent. Les modèles économiques et commerciaux basés sur le principe du “cycle de vie” semblent indiquer que ce phénomène ne peut se poursuivre que sur une durée limitée, sachant que les industries, les entreprises et les produits, tout comme les organismes vivants, passent par les étapes de l’émergence, de la maturité, et finissent par un déclin inévitable. De tels paramètres peuvent être considérés comme trop rigides dans le contexte africain. La dynamique des réalités économiques et sociales du continent sont telles que les brasseurs commerciaux, et en particulier une poignée de sociétés multinationales, semblent capables de conjurer un tel déclin: voici en effet un avenir bien grisant en perspective pour ce marché.

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