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Heineken reported a 4.7% drop in 2023 consolidated beer volumes, as higher pricing to combat cost inflation weighed, and warned that economic and geopolitical volatility could hurt its performance this year. Heineken reported a 4.7% drop in 2023 consolidated beer volumes, as higher pricing to combat cost inflation weighed, and warned that economic and geopolitical volatility could hurt its performance this year. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an…

Germans love beer. They consume more of it than almost any other nation, and now they can get it delivered on all-electric trucks, too.  Swedish startup Einride has set up a fleet of five battery-electric trucks to transport beer between Heinken’s brewery in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, and its central warehouse in Duisburg on the other side of the German border — a distance of about 135km.  These Mercedes eActros 300 trucks will transport ten full truckloads a day. The daily range for each…

Einride has announced it is helping world-renowned brewery Heineken electrify its freight operations between the Netherlands and Germany. Heineken put several electric trucks into operation last month as it looks to deploy Einride’s entire ecosystem across its fleet operations in the future. Einride is an eight-year-old commercial EV startup that continues to hit Electrek’s homepage with news of its expansion beyond Sweden where it was founded. During its tenure, the developer of all-electric…

Bill Gates has acquired a minority stake in Heineken Holding NV, the controlling shareholder of the world's second-largest brewer, for about $902 million. The Microsoft founder and philanthropist last week picked up 3.8% of Heineken Holding, according to a filing by the Dutch regulator AFM. He bought 6.65 million shares in Heineken Holding, in his individual capacity, and another 4.18 million shares through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. The shares are valued at €848.2 million ($902 million),…

Photo: Popel Arseniy (Shutterstock)NFL season is almost over, which means the Super Bowl is nigh. We’re still waiting to see who will duke it out at Super Bowl 57. Last year’s Super Bowl attracted over 112 million users, and this year could bring bigger numbers with the advent of streaming everything.Even if you don’t care for football, Super Bowl 57 will feature Rihanna on stage for the first time in years, plus performances from Babyface and Sheryl Lee Ralph. Here’s how you can watch Super Bowl 57.When is Super Bowl…

Photo: Stephen Lovekin (Getty Images)Whiskey conglomerate Jack Daniel’s Property, Inc has filed a dispute against the dog toy maker VIP Products LLC for making a toy parody of its signature whiskey bottle. The company has even successfully pushed the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their dispute, which they agreed to on Monday. SCOTUSblog shared the news in a Twitter post, writing that the nation’s highest court had agreed to hear the dispute between Jack Daniel’s and the toy manufacturer, adding, “The case will have…

Uber announced they were testing out in-car tablets for vehicles in select cities, and the company announced Wednesday it plans to add ads to those tablets as well.Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images)It seems Uber just isn’t content with letting users travel in peace and awkward silence during their point-to-point trips. The ride-hailing company now plans to advertise to users at every point of a trip from the moment you open the app. These ads will potentially appear on multiple screens, blasting consumers with new products…

WeWork Inc. is hoping to boost its drooping share price by joining the growing number of technology companies selling apps, data tools and other software to landlords and office tenants trying to adjust to the new world of hybrid workplaces.Nine months after going public, the shared-workplace operator in July officially launched a service named WeWork Workplace, which includes the software tools that WeWork has been using to power its scores of locations. For the first time, WeWork is now…

WhatsApp users are being warned about two dangerous scam messages that have been spreading in the UK this week. These two fake texts, which are either allegedly from beer giants Heineken or DIY retailer Screwfix, claims that WhatsApp users are entitled to a tempting freebie. The bogus messages suggest that WhatsApp users are in with a chance of getting a free cooler of Heineken beer or a DeWalt Combi Drill from Screwfix, with both of these schemes allegedly for Father's Day this weekend.However, this is all part of an…