Anheuser Agrees to InBev Deal »

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Anheuser-Busch Cos. agreed to be acquired Sunday by InBev NV for about $52 billion, creating the world's largest beer maker and placing an iconic American company in the hands of a Belgian-Brazilian giant.

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    capn_caveman11 months, 3 weeks ago

    Honestly, I can understand why this happened. When it comes down to it - it's all about the $$$.

    But at this point it's hard for me to grasp. Budweiser is American beer and always has been. To be honest, I feel kind of 'icky' about this. The same way I would feel if my favorite baseball team sold out to a foreign company.

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    libsRfunny11 months, 3 weeks ago

    Well, this all reminds me of a song ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQycQ8DABvc

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    Aidenag11 months, 3 weeks ago

    I wonder what this means for John and Cindy McCain. They are afterall the 3rd largest distributor of Anheuser in the USA.

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    nostalgia11 months, 3 weeks ago

    "InBev's corporate culture is focused heavily on cost controls"

    I think we all know what this means

    Unions offer grim reports on InBev

    Union leaders representing InBev workers in Brazil, Canada and Europe have a simple message for Anheuser-Busch employees if InBev takes control of the St. Louis-based brewery: Watch out.

    "They should worry, because the production is going to be concentrated and the work force reduced," says Siderlei Oliveira, president of Brazil's 1.2 million-member food workers union, citing a reduction in Brazil's brewery workers to 13,000 from 23,000 since the 1990s. "This is the strategy that they have."

    http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.n...

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    nikkibabe11 months, 3 weeks ago

    Honestly, the whole world does not hate Cuba like USA. Canada has booming business with Cuba and so does lot of other countries around the world. If they don't have capitalism it does not mean the country is bad.

    Talking about capitalism, if someone looks at the way US is going downhill, well, they can live without it.

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    chevydog11 months, 3 weeks ago

    Being sort of located in the St. Louis orbit, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out. There's a hometown pride type of angle. But in the end what will be produced is what will get drunk.

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    1-2-Oscar11 months, 3 weeks ago

    In a few years this brand will be brewed in Guangdong, from sewage water, and you'll buy it at WalMart.

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    blksentra211 months, 3 weeks ago

    What are they going to do with the Clydesdales?

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    Hobe11 months, 3 weeks ago

    Anheuser Agrees to InBev Deal

    John and Cindy should be quite happy, they are even more weathy than one could ever imagin....

    Cindy Budwiser and the ketchup lady hinze Kerry have landed trophy Senator Husband's.

    Both kerry and McCain are lifer do-nothing senator's in washington....

    After all their years in washington, NOW they want to correct all the Garbage they created....

    Vote the Lifers out of office, they are OWNED by Special Intrest and do very well financially at the expense of Hard working American taxpayer's...

    Stop the corruption, vote them out....

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      Harbeas11 months, 3 weeks ago

      Once again the workers get the proverbial shaft in these mergers. The executives who get thousands of shares yearly as part of their bonus make out like a bandit.

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      ConquerorWyrm11 months, 3 weeks ago

      I long ago stopped purchasing anything by Anheuser Busch...long ago when I heard just how much this company spends to ensure that cannabis remains illegal so as to not interfere with their market share.

      Sad and sick, really...

      Some simple numbers:

      rough number of deaths attributed to alcohol each year = 85000

      rough percentage of alcohol sales which is beer = 55%

      market share of Anheuser Busch in beer sales = 48.2%

      Therefor, roughly 22440 people each year are murdered by Anheuser Busch and their products.

      Number of deaths attributed to cannabis (ever!) = 0

      Anheuser Busch gets none of my money, ever...

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        ConquerorWyrm11 months, 3 weeks ago

        As for who does get my beer money...Sam Adams...good stuff...

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          joey-evans11 months, 3 weeks ago

          There are a good number of small places in the U.S. that make and distribute fantastic tasting beer....places like Avery out of Colorado, Bear Republic out of Cali, Rogue out of Oregon and many others....much better than the mass produced swill that is promoted everywhere you turn. There are quite a few more outstanding imports such as Chimay, Duvel and St. Bernardus from Belgium to name a couple and don't forget the many great German made beers now available. Also England has quite a few of their own to be proud of such as Samuel Smith and Young's. Unfortunately, most people haven't heard of these and when given the opportunity to taste some of them are turned off because they are so used to the commercial crap they usually drink. Oh, and I agree with whoever said Samuel Adams, they make a wonderful lineup and it is what I usually order when I find myself in a place that doesn't have better.

          JOEY EVANS

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            hyperbola11 months, 3 weeks ago

            Get used to it. Since Bush became president the dollar has fallen by 65% relative to the Euro. American companies now look cheap to Europeans.

            Apart from that, if Americans really believe in globalization, then in the end the percentage of companies in America that are owned by Americans should be about the same as our percentage of global business - 20%.

            When a Chinese oil company can drill off of the American coast, then we will have full globalization.

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              hyperbola11 months, 3 weeks ago

              Get used to it. Since Bush became president the dollar has fallen by 65% relative to the Euro. American companies now look cheap to Europeans.

              Apart from that, if Americans really believe in globalization, then in the end the percentage of companies in America that are owned by Americans should be about the same as our percentage of global business - 20%.

              When a Chinese oil company can drill off of the American coast, then we will have full globalization.

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                hefaa111 months, 3 weeks ago

                Best of the best, Sierra Nevada Ales and Beers., beats em' all. Brewed in Chico (home) in Northern California. However, Sierra Nevada is considered a Micro-brewery with limited product distribution. Budweiser is post consumption beer(a.k.a. urine) compared to SN.

                Let the giant corporate breweries that brew pi$$ leave. I will do my part to help the quality, hometown micro-breweries take up the slack.

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                Natureboy11 months, 3 weeks ago

                Apart from its being a symptom of all things american being up on the auction block, it's hard for me to feel bad about this - I mean, really, isn't it a lot like Chrysler being bought out by Toyota or even Porche? Things can only get better.

                But still, I have a mental image of Joe Six-pack taking a big glug of the new Bud and spitting it out, crying in rage and indignation "Dammit, these stinking Belgians put beer in my p!ss-colored water!"

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                  hefaa111 months, 3 weeks ago

                  Joey Evans

                  I live about 1/4 mile from the Sierra Nevada brewery. Kenny Grossmen, the guy who started the S/N brewery owned a small home-brew-your-own-beer shop in downtown Chico in the early eighties. Nice guy, however his custom built home is/was right in the path of the recent Concow/Paradise fires in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Firefighters almost have the fires under control though we still don't know the full extent of the damage. I wrote "is/was" cuz Ken's house may or may not still exist.

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