European Drinks & Foods European Drinks & Foods European Drinks & Foods is one of the largest Romanian food companies located in Ştei, Bihor County. The holding is formed by several companies including European Drinks, European Foods, Scandic Distilleries, Rieni Drinks and Transilvania General Import Export and is specialised in producing food and drink products. The company produces a wide variety of products like carbonated water, mineral water, energy drink, beer and various soft drinks thru it's European Drinks division. Two of the company's soft drinks "Adria" and "Frutti Fresh" are the main competitors for the Coca-Cola and Pepsi brands on the Romanian market.
Alcoholic drinks in Sweden called "folköl" ("people's beer"), is sold in regular stores, but with the minimum purchase age of 18. Class III, "starköl" ("strong beer", over 3.5%) is sold only in Systembolaget stores. Drinks are taxed by content of alcohol, more heavily than in most other countries. The tax on vodka (40%) is 200.56 SEK/litre, on Wine (14%) 22.08 SEK/litre and on beer (4.5%) 6.615 SEK/litre (2007). Beer with 2.8% alcohol or less is exempt from tax, except VAT. The VAT is 12% (food tax) for drinks sold in shops having up to 3.5% alcohol, and 25% above that, and at restaurants. Systembolaget