carlsberg as on wednesday raised its earnings guidance for 2022 and said that it will launch a bigger buyback program for the remainder of the year after seeing strong volume growth in asia and many european markets in the third quarter the copenhagenbased brewer delivered organic revenue growth of 116 as a result of total organic volume growth of 36 with asia a key driver carlsberg said it saw particularly strong growth in india vietnam and laos while china delivered a solid performance despite being impacted by local covid19 restrictions the company now expects 2022 organic growth in operating profit of 1012 from high singledigit percentage growth previously while the positive currency impact on operating profit is seen around dkk250 million from around dkk350 million thirdquarter revenue came in at 2024 billion danish kroner 271 billion versus the dkk2035 billion expected in a companycompiled consensus the business environment remains challenging with an uncertain macro situation very high inflation and weakening consumer sentiment chief executive cees t hart said we will address these challenges and the need for price increases he said carlsberg will launch a fourthquarter sharebuyback program of dkk15 billion up from dkk1 billion in the third quarter