Andy: “We Are a Beer Company, Not a Beverage Company”

That's what an ebullient HUSA chief Andy Thomas told a group of analysts and investors in Miami yesterday at HUSA's investor day, putting HUSA in contrast to another brewer. Heineken announced that worldwide beer volumes increased 11.3% year-on-year for the first four months of 2007. For the first four months of the year, Andy says "we are on solid ground." The national price increase in Q1 was the biggest in the company's history. U.S. HUSA volume (excluding Femsa) has grown