07.13.2008 8:14 pm
Anheuser-Busch sold to InBev: Good deal or bad?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Early Sunday evening, news broke that Anheuser-Busch Cos. directors accepted a $70 per share takeover offer from Belgium’s InBev.
The new company will be known as Anheuser-Busch InBev. Will this be a good deal or a bad deal for St. Louis region?


A deal made with the share holders,right?
I am shocked and saddened. I can’t believe A-B is now being run by a European company. I love St. Louis, but I cannot, and will not support this new Anheuser Busch-Inbev. Goodbye to one of the greatest American companies ever.
When was the last time a change resulted in the better of the common good?I dont know. Long term I guess bad.
This is a very sad day for me being an employee of AB. I feel as if all US citizens are justing “renting” America. We’re all renting from foreign countries….
How sad for St. Louis and America that we lost another American Company. I am saddened that GREEDY money hungry Shareholders are more worried about how to get rich quick instead of a long term future for an American company. We as Americans are going to be in big trouble in the not too distant future when we have nothing left American owned. Shame on you A-B. I am very worried about our city now. I bet that this Brito guy will play nice for two years then move the headquarters out of St. Louis to make even more money. This is a sad day for our city.
Why isn’t something being done about American companies being gobbled up by foreign interests?! This was a bad move for A-B and for St. Louis! America is in deep trouble!!! St. Louis is about to become the next Detroit!!!
As much as this sucks, boycotting A-B products will only hurt St. Louisans who work at the brewery.
Time will tell if the deal will be good for the region but if St. Louis really does become the North American HQ for ABI, then there could be some hope. The sad thing is the loss of an icon that made St. Louis proud for so long.
Farewell A-B. As long as your products are made in St. Louis, I will support you.
The King is dead, Long live the King.
I have seven buds left which is a shame because that is the last I ever purchase. For all of you that say I will only hurt the workers, save it because the workers will be hurting soon enough. I’ll support american owned products and god willing some of those workers can go back to an american company if more of us do the same.
As a former May company employee my advice to AB workers is this, hold on to your a**, you about to get f*****d.
What do you think? Off course it’s bad. St. Louis is losing one major corporate headquarters after another. This was the very last gem that St. Louis had and now it’s gone. The lesson here is that the world has changed. St. Louis is a conservative city and unfortunately St. Louis based companies have acted too conservatively. Rather than growning through acquisition or agressive organic growth, the companies have taken a cautious path and ultimately they have all paid the price. The city of St. Louis remains in decline and the anti-business taxes and infrastructure will ultimately cause a company such as INBev, with no real connection to the region, to slowly pull up roots. In 10 years, the brewery will be a shell of it’s former self if it exists at all in St. Louis.
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Thank you Frogs. You were the ones who made Budweiser and A-B what it was.