Budweiser is an American icon. Now that it’s owned by InBev, will that change?
A-B InBev has three “global” brands: Beck’s, Stella Artois and Budweiser. Budweiser is the most popular, and A-B InBev considers Bud Light, which is very popular in…
It’s a done deal: Anheuser-Busch is no more, but the name will stick around. The new company will be called Anheuser-Busch InBev, and will be the world’s largest brewer. The new owners said no layoffs are planned, and nothing will…
A-B and InBev are one. Anheuser-Busch stock is off the market, and shareholders are counting their money. The newly minted beer behemoth even has a new logo… What do you think? Eagle? Or seagull?
Maybe the Weatherbird can close the book…
Shareholders approved InBev’s buyout of Anheuser-Busch with 96 percent of shares voting yes at Wednesday’s shareholders meeting. The vote took about 25 minutes.
Today’s Birdline: Bud out
Anheuser-Busch shareholders voted today to accept Belgian brewer InBev’s $52 billion buyout of the St. Louis-based company. Anheuser-Busch officials announced the results of the voting at 11:25 a.m. CST during its shareholdering meeting at a hotel in Secaucus, N.J., a few miles from…
Anheuser-Busch shareholders are voting today on the $70-per-share offer from InBev. Stay tuned to STLtoday.com and our blog Lager Heads all day to keep up with the story.
On Wednesday, far away from Pestalozzi Street (in fact, in Secaucus, N.J.), Anheuser-Busch shareholders are expected to vote overwhelmingly in favor of InBev’s buyout offer.
READ excerpts of our chat with Jeremiah McWilliams and David Nicklaus.
Jeremiah McWilliams, beer industry expert, explains why InBev needed to buy Anheuseser-Busch. In a nutshell: The company’s own vulnerabilities, success with cost-cutting measures and diversity. (Jeremiah is not to be confused with Adam Jadhav, our beer critic.)
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InBev CEO Carlos Brito was in St. Louis on Tuesday, starting the transition from Anheuser-Busch to Anheuser-Busch InBev.
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Today’s Bird line: Making friends is…
The Anheuser-Busch InBev deal is one of the largest takeovers in history and will start out with a lot of debt. I mean a lot of debt. Beyond that, though, how things will work under the new company remain the subject…
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