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InBev completed the purchase of Anheuser-Busch last week, paying shareholders $70 per share of stock — a tidy sum and a handsome premium. The iconic Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, Missouri, now is a subsidiary of a company called…

“Grant’s Farm and the Clydesdales are all-important elements of the heritage of Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch and the city of St. Louis, and those, of course, would be retained.”

So wrote InBev CEO Carlos Brito on the Post-Dispatch Commentary Page on June 17. Four weeks…

TO:

Senhor Carlos Brito
InBev N.V./S.A.
Rua Renato Paes de Barros
1017, 4th Fl.
04530-001 São Paulo, Brazil

Exelentissimo senhor:

As chief executive officer of InBev, you are no doubt well aware that your company’s offer to purchase Anheuser-Busch Cos. has been met with a great deal…

On Tuesday’s Post-Dispatch commentary page — read it here — InBev Chief Executive Carlos Brito lays out his Belgian company’s reasons for wanting to buy Anheuser-Busch. He assures St. Louisans that the flagship A-B brewery would stay open, that InBev would maintain…