The Russian brewer, Yarpivo, has reported beer volumes of 264m litres for the first half of 2003, up by 12% from 235m litres in the same period of the last year.

Sales revenues at Yarpivo, which is 60%-owned by the Baltic Beverage Holding joint venture between Carlsberg and Scottish & Newcastle (S&N), rose by 28% from Rub2.315 billion to Rub2.966 billion.