0
1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000
Agriculture
Utilities
Packaging industry
Equipment and other industrial activities
Transport and storage
Media and marketing
Services and other
4 | Economic impact of breweries
on goods and services suppliers
40% of production value remains with the breweries.
The other 60% of the 912 million euro of total turnover
accrues to suppliers.
This stimulus of 547 million euro has a signifcant economic
impact on sectors outside the brewing sector. This effect
can be observed in the following table.
Substantial sectors in which indirect employment is
generated by the brewing sector are agriculture, media and
marketing and transport. The total frst-round employment
effect of the brewing sector on supplying sectors is around
3,800 employees.
As this primary effect can be estimated at about 65%
of the total impact, the total impact will be about 5,880 jobs.
The indirect employment effects are illustrated below:
35
(Domestic) stimulus is calculated on basis of the questionnaire survey and Eurostat data.
36
Turnover per employee is obtained from Eurostat.
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Source : Ernst & Young calculation (2011)
Sectors
Stimulus
35
Stimulus for Ireland
Turnover per
employee
36
Number
of employees
(mln. €)
%
(mln. €)
(in €)
Agriculture
118
76%
89
33,750
2,649
Utilities
18
100%
18
596,386
30
Packaging industry (in hectolitres)
27
15,5%
4
529,837
8
Equipment
27
40%
11
529,837
21
Transport
118
89%
105
237,689
440
Media, marketing
186
60%
112
216,566
515
Services
53
65%
35
216,566
160
Total
547
373
3,823
First-round impact as % of total impact
65%
Total indirect effect of brewing sector
5,882
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Source : Ernst & Young calculation (2011) and Eurostat (2008).
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Graph 21.2. / Indirect employment
The Contribution made by Beer to the European Economy
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