Marin Institute, a longtime critic of the alcohol industry, dropped a “bombshell” report this week criticizing Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors, the two largest brewers in the U.S. The report called beer “the most widely used drug in America” and urged the Obama…

Anheuser-Busch InBev has inked an agreement to sell Labatt USA, a small Buffalo-based importing operation, to fulfill one of the requirements set by the U.S. Department of Justice in the recent Anheuser-Busch/InBev tie-up.  Labatt USA imports Canadian beer Labatt into the…

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…

InBev of Belgium said today that it had reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice that will allow it to buy St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch without raising antitrust concerns.

The Justice Department will require InBev to sell its Labatt USA subsidiary – along with a license to brew, market,…