Did you hear that rumbling earlier this week? It was the beer geek community blowing up over the news that Anheuser-Busch Inbev is buying out Goose Island. We’ve had a couple of days to deal – we all checked in to our local brewpubs for therapy and high-gravity meds – so, we’re all feeling a [...]
Filed under: Beer, inbev on March 31st, 2011 | No Comments »
Did you know that Inbev owned Labatt USA? Yeah, me neither. I’m not saying I’m surprised. It’s just that that little factoid hadn’t floated my way. Now we all know that Labatt is Canadian. This is something that its marketers are determined not to let us forget. Labatt USA is the brewer’s legal presence in [...]
Filed under: anheuser-busch, Beer, inbev on February 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
I’ve been fascinated to watch the anit-Anheuser-Busch Inbev movement over the last few months. Since the takeover of the American brewer by Belgium based Inbev a loud minority of beer drinkers have advocated a drink-American-only policy. Their latest efforts have focused on convincing Americans to drink Sam Adams on Super Bowl Sunday this weekend instead [...]
Filed under: anheuser-busch, Beer, inbev on January 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It should come as no real surprise that Inbev shareholders have approved the deal to buy Anheuser-Busch. Only two more hurdles remain – approval by Anheuser-Busch shareholders and regulatory clearance – but there’s little doubt that the big beer buy will go through. It’s interesting that this was the year Anheuser-Busch starting pushing the idea [...]
Filed under: anheuser-busch, inbev on September 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, we can finally put this one to bed. The Inbev take-over of Anheuser-Busch was settled yesterday. Now it’s up to the lawyers to work out the details. Anheuser-Busch Inbev will be the new company making Budweiser when it’s said and done. (If you want to get an in-depth look at the brewery that was [...]
Filed under: anheuser-busch, inbev on July 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
If Inbev does wind up going through with the take-over of Anheuser-Busch the battle isn’t necessarily lost. It could be reversed.
Filed under: anheuser-busch, inbev on June 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
In case you haven’t heard European beer giant Inbev appears to be making moves to take over Anheuser-Busch. Overall I don’t think that this move would really mean that much. Let’s consider a couple of recent instances of big beer mergers and acquisitions.
Filed under: anheuser-busch, inbev on June 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
Even if Inbev does take over Anheuser-Busch, Budweiser isn’t going anywhere. The brand is simply too valuable.
Filed under: anheuser-busch, Beer, inbev on May 31st, 2008 | 5 Comments »