Hospitality sector organisation Horeca Nederland is asking competition authority NMa to take action against the big beer breweries.

The organisation says contracts between brewers and cafe owners leave little room for a healthy market. ‘The prices are driven upwards and that is bad for the consumer,’ a spokesman told Nos.
According to KHN, the current situation means the brewers still have a firm grip on the market. Each year a quarter of cafe owners think about moving to another brewery but only 2.4% actually take the step.
Landlords
This is because many cafe owners are dependent on a brewery for renting their premises, making them in effect a tied house.
A new survey by KHN among cafe owners confirmed that beer is a closed market with no competition, the organisation said.
‘Breweries say the market must change, but they cannot or do not want change,’ said the spokesman.
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