The rumors are flying: SABMiller of London, the world’s second-largest brewer, is reportedly in talks to buy the beer business of Mexican brewer FEMSA (parent company of Tecate and Dos Equis) for perhaps a cool $9 billion.

That would set up…

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Check out our story in Sunday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch on whether you should invest in Anheuser-Busch InBev. For about two and a half months, U.S. investors have been able to hitch their wagons to the company through…

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Brazil’s Justice Ministry will begin probing allegations that executives at Ambev, Latin America’s largest brewer, concealed evidence of anti-competitive practices from authorities, Bloomberg is reporting.

That is intriguing because Sao Paulo-based Ambev is one of the largest divisions…

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Anheuser-Busch InBev managed to squeeze more profits from smaller beer sales in its second quarter.

The company’s beer sales - measured by liquid sold - fell…

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Brazil’s antitrust regulator has slapped Brazilian brewer AmBev - Latin America’s biggest brewer and a key division of Anheuser-Busch InBev - with a record $186 million fine for anti-competitive practices that limited rivals’ access to markets.

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Anheuser-Busch InBev has told NBC that it will spend only about half as much on its coming Olympic advertising package as it did on the previous one, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Citing a person familiar with the matter, the newspaper…

Is Anheuser-Busch InBev laying the groundwork for a challenge to the St. Louis earnings tax?

Joe Whittington, one of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s irrepressible business columnists, talked to folks who believe that the company may push back against the tax, which is…

Bloomberg News is reporting that AmBev, the Brazilian subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev, is being investigated by Brazil’s Justice Ministry, which is looking into allegations of anti-competitive practices. One of the things regulators are poking into: whether deals between retailers and AmBev, one…

Brazilian brewing group Companhia de Bebidas das Americas, better known as AmBev, is a key part of the newly formed Anheuser-Busch InBev. Clutching a 68 percent share of the Brazilian beer market — one of the world’s five largest – AmBev…

As of this morning, Anheuser-Busch is owned by InBev. The companies closed on the transaction today. At least in the beer industry, it’s a new world out there. We’ll be following all the upcoming developments as St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch merges into Belgium-based…