01.23.2009 2:00 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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…

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11.24.2008 2:07 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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.…

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11.18.2008 10:44 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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,…

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11.17.2008 5:58 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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…

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