Alcoholism has everything to do with availability of cheap booze at any time of the day. Not for hard core addicts, they'd always find the way, but for the general population.

The inevitable result of ThaiBev growth is higher consumption and higher profits. People will most likely drink more of better quality and cheaper beer.

Don't forget that ThaiBev sells mass market products, it goes for wider reach and higher volumes.

So it' is a social problem not an economical.

Thai Beverage (ThaiBev, Thai: ไทยเบฟ) is one of the largest beverage alcohol companies in South East Asia. Listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange, Thai Beverage Plc has a market capitalisation in excess of US$4bn.

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Thai Beverage Public Company Limited owns and distributes a number of significant brands including Chang beer and Mekhong and Sang Som rum. Chang Beer, which first started production in March 1995 at the brewery in the district of Bang Ban, Ayutthaya Province, is the top-selling brand in Thailand. It managed to win 60% of market share in Thailand after a hard market fight with the previously biggest brand Singha. In 2006, the company's market share was 49% of the beer market, according to research company Canadean. The company also produces Mungkorn Thong and Hong Thong as well as brands based on malt whisky, like Crown 99 and Blue.

ThaiBev's most famous, but not highest selling, liquor brand, Mekhong, originated in 1941 at the Bangyikhan Distillery west of Bangkok. Originally a state-owned distillery, it dates back over 200 years to the beginning of the current Chakri Dynasty. The launch of Mekhong was aimed at producing high-quality Thai liquor to stem the increase in the import of foreign liquor and to eventually replace imported brands. Sang Som however, has been the country’s most popular liquor brand for over 29 years, until 2006 holding almost 50% of the entire brown spirits market in Thailand.

In 2004 a deal was agreed for Chang to sponsor Everton Football Club of the English Premiership. Together they initiated five projects set up in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster in Thailand.

The Chang-Everton village consists of 50 houses and a football field, and following its completion, youth teams from area have competed for the Chang-Everton cup using the facilities.

Officials from Everton and Chang have been continually involved in the project.

Together they also sponsor Chang Everton Football Cup and any promising Thai footballers are invited to Liverpool to trial with Everton.

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If beer companies is allowed to list, next will be tobaco, bar, turkish massage, etc. Chuwit will love the latter.

PROTEST, PROTEST and more PROTEST, the country is going down the drains.....

Samuian, of course it's a social problem, not economical.

If beer companies is allowed to list, next will be tobaco, bar, turkish massage, etc. Chuwit will love the latter

In principle - sure. They have to decide if potential social impact must be counted when making list or not list decisions. The problem is that people in decision making power won't be affected in the slightest, and worrying about social issues is not in their job description, so someone has to stand up and make a point, and nobody expects Labor and Social welfare ministers to give a fuc_k one way or another.

Street protests is the only working feedback mechanism in this country, and it has been for a while.

Rice, garlic, corn farmers, truck drivers, boat drivers, bus drivers - everybody has to be on the streets to make themselves heard, nobody believes in the elected government to do anything for the people unless roads are blocked and airports are closed.