Word: holsten
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...success attracted the attention of other AIDS non-profits. A few years ago, a TV director named Glenn Holsten attended one event and was so touched by a family who had come to bingo to celebrate the life of a son they had lost to AIDS that Holsten decided to make a documentary. The result, Gay Bingo, released in 2001, shows the diversity of the players: gay, straight, old, young, black, white, single, taken. "The cliché is true," says Holsten. "It brings people together from all walks of life...
...choose which man represents the future of the troubled German beer industry, it would have to be the New York-born Eisenbeiss (his parents emigrated to the U.S.). He and his sister share a 48% stake in the company that sells more beer to Germans than anyone else - Holsten, on Germany's north coast. Eisenbeiss believes a modern brewer needs to be big - Holsten already serves up 1 billion liters a year - and international. Sailer and his brother, Dietrich, by contrast, own and operate the small but thriving Hofbräuhaus Traunstein in southern Germany, which brews 10 million liters...
...global players are poised to take over the German beer market, why haven't any German brewers become global players? Bavarian monks formalized and perfected the art of brewing in the Middle Ages. Yet even a German giant like Holsten is dwarfed by Heineken - which produced 11 billion liters in 2002 and is awaiting regulatory approval for its purchase of Austria's 2.6 billion-liter-per-year BBAG brewery for €1.9 billion. Shackleton explains that when Dutch and Belgian brewers began seeing their local markets shrink in the late 1980s, they responded by beefing up their exports, hammering...