USA Today had a good summary yesterday of attempts to rein in 401k fees, a subject I’ve followed for a long time. New to me, though, was mention of BrightScope, a website that rates employers’ 401k plans.  It gives each plan a numeric…

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…

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…

In their public statements, Anheuser-Busch and InBev seem to be treating Modelo’s arbitration request as little more than a nuisance. However, a Wall Street Journal article (subscription required) - says one possible solution is for Modelo to buy back A-B’s 50 percent…

Some financial experts measure the financial crisis’ severity by the TED spread, which is a measure of banks’ borrowing costs. Norm Conley, of JAG Advisors in Ladue, tells me that the BUD spread might be an equally valid measure of panic in the…