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Pluto
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:51 pm Post subject: Anheuser-Busch InBev |
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Anheuser Agrees to InBev Deal
By DAVID KESMODEL, DENNIS K. BERMAN and DANA CIMILLUCA
July 13, 2008 8:46 p.m.
Anheuser-Busch Cos. agreed to be acquired Sunday by InBev NV for $49.91 billion, creating the world's largest beer maker and placing an iconic American company in the hands of a Belgian-Brazilian giant.
The $70-a-share deal marks an abrupt end to what many expected to be a prolonged takeover drama. For weeks, Anheuser showed stiff resistance to a sale. But last week, InBev, based in Leuven, Belgium, drew its St. Louis rival into friendly discussions by increasing its offer by $5 a share.
The companies plan to call the new brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev. Anheuser would have two seats on the board, people familiar with the matter said.
The deal, subject to shareholder approvals, would cap Anheuser's roughly 150 years of independence and create a global juggernaut. The new company would have net sales of about $36 billion a year, followed by London's SABMiller PLC. The two giants hawk about 300 brands, including Anheuser's Budweiser and Bud Light and InBev's Stella Artois and Beck's. |
Wall Street Journal
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Zutronius
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Suncheon
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder how many companies there will be in 10 years or if they will all be one giant monopoly.  |
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Pluto
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Anything is possible but I doubt we'll see a worldwide giant beer monopoly. If A-B InBev started in monopoly practices by raising prices and restricting supply, there are thousands of mini-breweries throughout the US alone that would be all too happy to snag that abandoned market share. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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just read that part of imbev's brands include:
Labatt Blue (Canada's number 1 selling beer)
Cass
Hoegartten (sic)
and of course, Stella |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Thankfully, I don't drink beer. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| Pligganease wrote: |
| Thankfully, I don't drink beer. |
vague. elaborate please, Pligganease. |
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Jandar
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:32 am Post subject: |
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Here's the list according to Wiki.
Absolut Cut (Sweden)
Alexander Keith's (Canada)
Andes (Argentina)
Antarctica (Brazil)
Apatinska pivara (Serbia)
Jelen pivo
Pils Light
Aqua Fratelli Vita (Brazil)
AstikA (Bulgaria)
Baisha (China)
BagBier (Russia)
Bass (United Kingdom)
Beck's (Germany)
Belle-Vue (Belgium)
Bergenbier (Romania)
Boddingtons (United Kingdom)
Bohemia (Brazil)
Borsodi S�r (Hungary)
Boomerang (France)
Borosty�n (Hungary)
Brahma (Global)
Breda (The Channel Islands) Still Available
Cafri (South Korea)
Caracu (Brazil)
Cass (South Korea)
Castlemaine XXXX (owned by Castlemaine Perkins Pty Ltd.)
Chernigivske (Ukraine)
Diebels (Germany)
Diekirch (Luxembourg)
Dimix (Germany)
Dommelsch (Netherlands)
Double Deer (China)
Dutch Gold (Netherlands)
Eiken Artois
Franziskaner Weissbier (Germany)
Gilde Ratskeller (Germany)
Guaran� Antarctica (Brazil)
Guaran� Brahma (Brazil)
GuoGuang (China)
Haacke-Beck (Germany)
Hasser�der (Germany)
Hertog Jan (Netherlands)
Hoegaarden (Belgium)
Hougaerdse Das (Belgium)
Jinlin (China)
Jinlongquan (China)
Julius (Belgium)
Jupiler (Belgium)
KK (China)
Kamenitza (Bulgaria)
Klinskoye (Russia)
Kokanee (Canada)
La B�casse (France)
Labatt Family (Canada) Acquired in 1995
Lakeport (Canada)
Leffe (Global)
Liber (Brazil)
L�wenbr�u (Germany)
Marathon (Brazil)
Mousel (Luxembourg)
Pivara Trebjesa (Montenegro)
Noroc (Romania)
OB (South Korea)
Oranjeboom (Netherlands)
Original (Brasil)
Peeterman Artois
Permskoye Gubernskoye (Russia)
Piedboeuf (Belgium)
Quilmes (Argentina)
Red Shiliang (China)
Rifey (Russia)
Rogan (Ukraine)
Safir (Belgium)
Santai (China)
Sedrin (China)
Sibirskaya Korona (Siberian Crown)(Russia)
Skol (Brazil)
Spaten (Germany)
St. Pauli Girl (USA)
Staropramen (Czech Republic)
Stella Artois (Global)
Sukita (Brazil)
Taller (Ukraine)
Tennent's (United Kingdom)
Tinkov Russian Lager (Russia)
Tolstiak (Russia)
Vieux Temps (Belgium)
Wolters (Germany)
Whitbread (United Kingdom) (purchased from Whitbread Group plc in 2001)
Yali (China)
Yantar (Ukraine)
Zagrebacka pivovara (Croatia)
Zizhulin (China)
Zhujiang (China) |
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Pluto
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| Jandar wrote: |
Here's the list according to Wiki.
Cass (South Korea) |
InBev owns Cass!!! 
And to think this whole time, I thought Korea almost had the market cornered on cheap piss tasting beer.  |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:50 am Post subject: |
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From the Saturday WSJ:
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�I�ll tell you one thing,� said the 21-year-old concrete worker during his lunch break at The Brick of St. Louis bar, in the shadow of this city�s storied Anheuser-Busch Cos. brewery, �if Budweiser is made by a different country, I don�t drink Budweiser anymore. I�ll go back to Wild Turkey.� (Wild Turkey, a Kentucky bourbon, is owned by French drinks giant Pernod Ricard SA.) |
I drink Bud, almost exclusively. I love the stuff. I don't care who produces it. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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| People who held the shares now have lots of money. That's a good thing. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Pluto wrote: |
| Anything is possible but I doubt we'll see a worldwide giant beer monopoly. If A-B InBev started in monopoly practices by raising prices and restricting supply, there are thousands of mini-breweries throughout the US alone that would be all too happy to snag that abandoned market share. |
Indeed. And the USA has hundreds, if not thousands, of them. Anyone who drinks Bud in the Pacific Northwest is either 17 years old or lives in a trailer park.
Beer ain't rocket science. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| People who held the shares now have lots of money. That's a good thing. |
Warren Buffett is the biggest shareholder. He's got more shares than anyone w/in the Busch family. The man certainly knows his stocks. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| bucheon bum wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| People who held the shares now have lots of money. That's a good thing. |
Warren Buffett is the biggest shareholder. He's got more shares than anyone w/in the Busch family. The man certainly knows his stocks. |
That's a good thing as he's donating most of his money to charity upon his death. So thank you Europeans. You're not only sending that American money back to America but it will eventually be employed by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation to find a cure for AIDS and educate children. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't really care who owns what. When I see stories of one giant successful company buying up another giant successful company to no real purpose, I just wonder why that money couldn't be spent on investing in some innovative company doing R & D in some new field. |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
| Pligganease wrote: |
| Thankfully, I don't drink beer. |
vague. elaborate please, Pligganease. |
Well, I mean that, no matter what, people are not going to be happy.
Distributors are going to change, products are going to change, prices are going to change... People are never going to be satisfied.
Since I don't drink beer, I don't have to worry with that. |
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