As St. Louis was noting yesterday’s one-year anniversary of the Anheuser-Busch InBev merger announcement, word came out of Japan that another big beer merger was brewing. Kirin and Suntory confirmed today that they are talking about a deal, setting off a…

InBev obviously didn’t think much of the prospects for the Rolling Rock in 2006, when it sold the beer brand to Anheuser-Busch. Now that the two companies are combined as Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the classic green-bottled…

The editors of the Current, the student newspaper at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, are unhappy about the name of the school’s new business school building. They split hairs about why it will be called “Anheuser-Busch Hall” instead of “Anheuser-Busch…

Bit by bit, Anheuser-Busch InBev is successfully refinancing the roughly $45 billion in debt it took on in November. The debt, of course, was needed to buy St. Louis brewer Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion.

Today, A-B InBev sold $944 million of…

Anheuser-Busch InBev’s decision to sell most of its stake in China’s Tsingtao made sense for a couple of reasons. First, the big brewer needs to sell assets to pay down debt. Second, the Chinese government had prohibited A-B InBev from increasing its…

The shopping malls aren’t the only places offering big discounts this month. Anheuser-Busch InBev announced this morning that it will go ahead with a shareholder rights offering, a key part of its plan for financing last week’s purchase of Anheuser-Busch.…

 When it announced its plan to buy Anheuser-Busch, InBev pledged to keep the Clydesdales and other important A-B symbols. Today’s news release on the completion of the merger makes clear that the Anheuser-Busch eagle is here to stay, too. In fact,…

After months of angst, the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch by InBev is now history. There’s one slight change, though, from the original announcement. In July, InBev said it would add August Busch IV to its board along with one other “current…

Here’s another sign that the Inbev acquisition of Anheuser-Busch is moving close to completion: Standard & Poor’s has named a replacement for A-B in the closely watched S&P 500 Index. The index newcomer will be Stericycle, a medical-waste company based in…

Philadelphia is losing a major corporate headquarters as Glaxo SmithKline decamps for North Carolina. So who’s the first person quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer story about the impact of the loss? Why, Dick Fleming of the St. Louis RCGA, of course. Reporter Linda Lloyd…