date:Mar 30, 2022
International beer heavyweights Heineken and Carlsberg are pulling out of Russia, as part of a mass exodus of Western businesses ramping up pressure on the Kremlin following its invasion of Ukraine.
This follows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiys previous calls upon global companies to abandon the Russian market, which is already heavily weighed down by blanket sanctions.
Holding the biggest stake in Russia out of all the Western brewers, Carlsberg stated that a reassessment of its busi