Year starts well for Carlsberg despite gloomy prognosis – results data

First-quarter sales increase 14.2% to DKK16.4bn [US$2.43bn] Volumes in three months to end of March +2.1% 'Alcohol-free brews' come in down 6% in volumes Carlsberg has trumped its nearest - geographically speaking - rival in the first quarter of 2023, although like Amsterdam-headquartered Heineken, the Danish brewer has seen its alcohol-free stable stutter in the period. For the three months to the end of March, Copenhagen-based Carlsberg posted a 14.2% top-line increase. The showing follows 2022's 15.6% rise, while also stymying the group's February expectation that "higher pric