Just to clarify, Coors did not merge with SABMiller. It merged it’s US operations with Miller Brewing Company. SABMiller is a huge company that owns many different businesses all over the world. Miller is only a small part of their holdings. Don’t say it’s the same thing because it’s not. Coors is not owned by SABMiller. Yes they are partners with Miller which is owned by SABMiller. The Coors family still owns their brewery which is more than I can say for the Busch’s. I’ll still drink a bud light nown then but I will try a coors light now.

I can’t believe the uninformed comments posted about the greedy shareholders. If you are going to get angry at someone, try getting mad at the Busch family for giving-up their controlling interest in the company in the first place. They cashed-out a long time ago. Or more appropriately, how about getting mad at G. W. Bush for waging two wars without raising taxes, resulting in the lowest value for the dollar in decades. As one prior poster highlighted, this never could happen if we hadn’t literally mortgaged our future with these mismanaged wars.

there’s no crying in baseball or brewing. come on, st. louis. when did you lose the ability to grow? this is good for AB and good for st. louis! budweiser will now be sold in eastern europe and asia! i wish everyone could visit brussels and get a taste of belgium hospitality (and beer)…

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. No one cried foul when AB bought up iconic foreign brands. Now the same thing happens to AB. Sounds fair to me.

This will be a bad deal for the St. Louis region. However that is how the free market works and we must realize that AB became stagnant under its directors. Many may blame politicians, but ultimately, AB directors fell asleep.

I see a call for boycotts. Why? Because Inbev did what AB should have been looking to do? Because Inbev is foreign?

Boycotting ABI (Anheuser-Busch InBev) is not the solution.

The solution is to raise educated citizens who have good business skills and write to your senator to find ways to strengthen the U.S. dollar.

Boycotting ABI will do nothing except give ABI a bigger reason to cut jobs-jobs that are local.

I have held 10,000 shares of bud since the 80’s. I did not want this deal to go through and I am very sad for the sale of a once huge american icon.

on a side note, anyone notice that carlos brito looks like the guy in sling blade?

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080707/capt.61cf86b69b1a42e88b4f1454aa47731d.belgium_inbev_anheuser_busch_nybz173.jpg

http://images.zap2it.com/20050615/slingblade_240_001.jpg

As I’ve said in these pages before… InBev + AB = STL-DOA

Forget fundraising
Forget culture
Forget sports
Forget political reach or power
Forget everything and anything that once made this city anything but a landlocked, rusting, hideous shell of a backwater nowhere.

Sold out once again by the Country Day crowd… it seem that the only thing they learn in that school is how to sell Daddy’s business (or granddad’s.)

There is no long any reason for this city to exist. Send your kids to school and do like i’ve done with mine… tell them to go live somewhere else.

Somewhere… where there is more than just a Democratic machine with politicians so ingrained that they only know how to fight each other for the right to be the biggest fly on the pile of horse sh*t.

Somewhere where they are smart enough to let the CEO of the largest telicom in the world play golf so he doesn’t move the company out-of-town.

Someplace where they start and grow companies not sell them off. This place is a dirty little mill town and the mill just closed.

Finish school kids, then get the living h*ll out of here. I’ll be right behind you, after my parents are gone.

The last one out… turn off the lights.

Now maybe Bud can be made with corn instead of flavorless rice, like real beers!

*sigh* Here goes all of St. Louis down the tubes.