Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Metal Container Corp. will sell four metal beverage can and lid manufacturing plants to Ball Corp., a big supplier of metal and plastic packaging for the food and beverage industries. Price tag:  $577 million in cash.

Ball will continue to…

We are picking up lots of rumors that Anheuser-Busch InBev has found a buyer for its can and lid plants in the U.S. Names being tossed around as buyers include Ball Corp. and Silgan Containers, two big suppliers of packaging. We are…

What does the future hold for Anheuser-Busch’s far-flung packaging operations? For years, A-B quietly regarded the division as a valuable asset, worth being kept in-house. But under the company’s new management, several analysts suspect Anheuser-Busch InBev’s main interest in the…

Dear Lager Heads readers: Please consider this as much a request for help as a news story. We have picked up rumors that visitors from competing companies have been visiting Anheuser-Busch’s packaging operations recently. Recall that those packaging operations - which…