01.19.2009 9:26 am
Buyers await Anheuser-Busch InBev asset sale
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Financial Times newspaper has an interesting piece here discussing the possible sale of Anheuser-Busch’s theme parks. The story says that “Busch Entertainment, the group’s theme park business, which owns SeaWorld Orlando, is expected to be one of the first business units put up for sale with a possible price of up to $4 billion.” Possible buyers include Walt Disney and Universal Studios, according to the newspaper.
Anheuser-Busch InBev needs to sell “non-core” assets to pay back some of the debt it took on to form the combined company last year.
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Jeremiah McWilliams is a native Virginian who came to the Post-Dispatch in early 2007 to cover beer and other consumer products. He previously covered manufacturing for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Va. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University. 
And so the era of the great beer barons of america has come to an end. The leaders of the most iconic beer brand in the world stuffed their pockets and were seen running away, leaving behind a legacy of greed and self indulgence.
In no time the great beer company was gone from the city, only a memory remains.
Mark my words, in less than 10 years Budweiser will no longer be in Saint Louis at all. The head quarters will be in some other country with less corporate taxes and the beer will be made in some third world country by people making a dollar a day.