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Article: Chronicle of the beer wars: R.S Weinberg ponders a half century of beer market competition.(Robert Weinberg)(Interview)(Industry Overview)
- Article from:
- Modern Brewery Age
- Article date:
- March 29, 2004
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Robert Weinberg, a veteran of World War II and Korea, is also an amateur naval historian, and has spent much of his free time in recent decades studying the warships and operations of the world's great navies. His day job, as principal of the Office of R.S. Weinberg of St. Louis, MO, involves the in-depth statistical study of the beer industry. The twain has met in Mr. Weinberg's newest statistical construct, the Institutional Memory and Industrial Evolution Research Project, part of the Brewing Industry Research Program II. Mr. Weinberg says that between 1933 and 2004 there were seven "Beer Wars" and between 2005 and 2030, there will be at least three or four more. Our ...