Moa Group eyes wider beer market

Moa Group eyes wider beer market
Victoria Young
By Victoria Young Sept. 25 (BusinessDesk) - Moa Group is banking on beers sold in bars and eateries to help it move into the black, and will now look at other categories beyond craft products. The unprofitable brewer-turned-restaurant-owner has done a licensing deal to bring Melbourne’s MoVida Tapa’s to the Auckland Fish Market and will introduce Lobster & Tap, a lobster roll and beer store concept to the supercity this summer.  Selling beer at the supermarket isn’t a magic bullet and doesn’t drive gross margin, Moa chair Geoff Ross to...

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