With 85% of all beer sold in Australia being made in Australia, our vibrant beer sector is a major driver of economic activity and domestic jobs, supporting vital cogs in industry from Australian farmers upstream to brewing, packaging, distribution and freight, all the way through to retail, tourism and hospitality…
Domestically made beer in Australia underpins $16 billion a year in economic activity.
- ACIL Allen Consulting, Economic Contribution of the Australian Brewing Industry 2018-19 from Producers to Consumers, March 2020.
As an economic driver, Australian-made beers support key goods and services throughout the Australian economy, including ingredients/agriculture ($254 million), materials and packaging ($582 million), transport and freight ($281 million), marketing and sales ($490 million) and administration ($198 million).
- ACIL Allen Consulting, Economic Contribution of the Australian Brewing Industry 2018-19 from Producers to Consumers, March 2020.
Australian beer production provides 13,499 full-time direct jobs, while supporting 97,603 full-time equivalent jobs throughout the economy (133,675 jobs in all, including part-time positions).
- ACIL Allen Consulting, Economic Contribution of the Australian Brewing Industry 2018-19 from Producers to Consumers, March 2020.
For every direct full-time job making beer in an Australian brewery (4,315), a further 21.6 FTE jobs are created elsewhere in the economy.
- ACIL Allen Consulting, Economic Contribution of the Australian Brewing Industry 2018-19 from Producers to Consumers, March 2020.
Every Australian schooner (425ml) of beer sold in pubs and other licensed premises contributes $7.50 to GDP, while its off-license equivalent in packaged liquor store beer sales contributes $2.90 to GDP. Averaging these, every Australian-made beer contributes $4.34 to Australia’s GDP.
- ACIL Allen Consulting, Economic Contribution of the Australian Brewing Industry 2018-19 from Producers to Consumers, March 2020.
Beer is overwhelmingly a domestic industry, with the three major local brewers (CUB, Lion and Coopers) accounting for 79% of sales volume.
Despite the year-on-year exponential growth in the number of small brewers (including brands held by Asahi and Coca-Cola Amatil), they account for 5% of the Australian market, with homebrew at 2% and imports at 15%. Exports run to 1.5% of domestic production volume.
- ACIL Allen Consulting, Economic Contribution of the Australian Brewing Industry 2018-19 from Producers to Consumers, March 2020.