11.13.2009 4:47 pm
The rise of Anheuser-Busch InBev
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
When it first made its bid for Anheuser-Busch last year, few St. Louisans had ever heard of InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian hybrid that had rapidly grown into one of the world’s top brewers. As part of a four-day Post-Dispatch series starting Sunday, we trace here the evolution of what is now Anheuser-Busch InBev, one year after the deal that created the world’s biggest brewer. [Special thanks to Post-Dispatch graphic artist Brian Williamson.]
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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. 
Current ABI employees are networking quietly (on Carlos’ time) with each other and former AB employees to jump ship as quickly as possible. Sharing job opportunities and information. I feel sorry for anyone left behind.
I lost my job the end of August. I am not sad to be away from the “new” ABI, but I do miss the old AB. My questions, when you get laid off, you (nonmanagement) lose all insurance. But why did the company take insurance out on our last checks? Something Lagerheads may want to check into.
There is a mass exodus of employees and contractors. And the people who are left are mostly depressed. It’s a very gloomy environment, and no one trusts a word upper management says. It won’t be long before they’ve paid down enough debt that they’ll be after another American icon (I’d be worried if I worked for Pepsi). They won’t stop until they’ve purchased every consumer products company the antitrust regulators will allow them to devour. That’s the only way they know how to increase the bottom line, as we all know they can’t do squat to grow their existing brands. What will the company name be in 10 years? How about Anheuser-Busch InBev Pepsi Procter & Gamble United…
CJSTL- This company won’t exist in 10 years.
The Brazilian Banditos will stay one step ahead of the storm long enough to bail out when the ponzi scheme runs it course and the house of cards comes crashing down, but it won’t take 10 years for that to happen.
They have proven to be a one-trick pony, and once there are no more companies they can buy out and gut to keep costs lower than falling revenues, the gig will be up.
Very cool time line, cant wait for the next parts.
Haha… sry americans but yea they will gobble you all up. One-trick pony… pff, may be… but it has worked for the past decade and grown it into a one-trick Clydesdale.
mm, At first I thought you were serious “it has worked for the past decade and grown it into a one-trick Clydesdale.” Then I realized you HAD to be joking about everything you wrote. I’m laughing so hard I’m crying. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Man, I bet your a laugh a minute. I’d like to have you at my Christmas party with a bunch of ex AB employees.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that totally just made my day!
I hope u realize by the time that I’m posting this that I’m in Belgium rolling on the floor laughing screaming I WASNT JOKING!! HAHAHA but i do feel sry for u guys… christmas partaayy
InBev is not the first company to pick this dying city ‘clearn’.
This started with the good old boys themselves-first and second generation
Civic Progress, then the developers and all the while the politicans
and the media getting their cut.
Even the most cut-throat business people would ‘hang in’ a City with
any energy, class or potential.
The ‘carving up’ of St. Louis started long ago.
Ed Golterman-there is no correlation in your statement of InBev acquiring AB and St. Louis being a dying city. The acquisition of AB was “an acquisition”. AB could have been headquartered anywhere. I really question your comment on St. Louis being a “dying” city”. St Louis area has lost manufacturing jobs not because it is a “dying” city. St. Louis is in a “right to work state”. So chill out, pop open a Miller Lite (which I have done for 25 years) and watch AB in St. Louis, sink into the sunset.
mm, again you made me laugh. See out of all this doom and gloom we can at least share a laugh. If this type of comradeship went on with the new owners and the take over, everyone might have been happy right now instead of spewing hate. I’m taking off for Belgium also, maybe I’ll see you there and we can have a drink (wine for me please).