Anheuser-Busch InBev to sell three can plants, one lid plant to Ball Corp.

By Jeremiah McWilliams

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…