I’ve noticed that, as the years have gone by, my posts have become longer. Looking back to the early days of the blog, many posts are two or three hundred words, a few maybe five hundred. Nowadays I feel guilty when I dish up fewer than 600 words.
Where’s this going? You should be able to guess. Not too many words this time. But a fair few numbers to make up.
It’s all about beer output per worker:
“Table IV shows the volume of beer produced per person employed in the different EEC countries in the years of 1967 and 1974. During these seven years the Irish brewers have been the most progressive with an increase from 890 hl up to 1,325 hl, but the highest productivity is in France with 1,447 hl, followed by the Netherlands with 1,403 hl per person employed. In West Germany with our numerous breweries we produce 1,037 hl per production employee, a little more than in Great Britain where one employed person is producing 927 hl. The reason for this low output is Great Britain's problem for the future and may be found in the very traditional production system in some plants.”
Journal of the Institute of Brewing, Volume 83, Issue 1, March-April 1977, page 72.
Here’s the table:
TABLE IV. Beer Production in hl per annum per person employed in the Breweries or the EEC. | ||
Country | 1967 | 1974 |
Denmark | 635 | 831 |
Eire | 890 | 1,325 |
Great Britain | 560 | 927 |
Italy | 788 | - |
Netherlands | 1,012 | 1,403 |
Luxemburg | 677 | 1,056 |
Belgium | 627 | 800 |
France | 1,032 | 1,447 |
West Germany | 794 | 1,037 |
Total | 719 | 1,060 |
You can probably guess where this is going. We’ll have a look at today:
Output per employee in 2012 | |||
Country | employed | output (1,000 hl) | output per employee |
Denmark | 3,500 | 6,080 | 1,737 |
Ireland | 1,500 | 8,195 | 5,463 |
United Kingdom | 13,500 | 42,047 | 3,115 |
Italy | 4,700 | 13,293 | 2,828 |
Netherlands | 6,300 | 24,271 | 3,853 |
Luxembourg | 130 | 292 | 2,246 |
Belgium | 4,500 | 18,751 | 4,167 |
France | 3,900 | 17,132 | 4,393 |
Germany | 26,900 | 94,618 | 3,517 |
Total/average | 64,930 | 224,679 | 3,460 |
Source: | |||
Beer Statistics 2014 edition, Brewers of Europe, 2014, pages 11 and 27. |
Looks like productivity has shot up. Let’s do that nailing and comparing thing.
Output per employee in 1974 - 2012 | |||
Country | 1974 | 2014 | % change |
Denmark | 831 | 1,737 | 109.04% |
Ireland | 1,325 | 5,463 | 312.33% |
United Kingdom | 927 | 3,115 | 235.99% |
Italy | - | 2,828 | |
Netherlands | 1,403 | 3,853 | 174.59% |
Luxembourg | 1,056 | 2,246 | 112.70% |
Belgium | 800 | 4,167 | 420.86% |
France | 1,447 | 4,393 | 203.58% |
Germany | 1,037 | 3,517 | 239.19% |
Total/average | 1,060 | 3,460 | 226.45% |
Source: | |||
Journal of the Institute of Brewing, Volume 83, Issue 1, March-April 1977, page 73. | |||
Beer Statistics 2014 edition, Brewers of Europe, 2014, pages 11 and 27. |
Isn’t that interesting. Productivity seems to have shot up. At the same time as the number of breweries has explodes and output per brewhouse collapsed.
What a weird and wacky world we live in.
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