Belgian Brewer Aggressors Seek to Topple Anheuser-Busch

InBev is a monster.

It has been devouring countless breweries for the past decade or so. Anheuser-Busch's puny defenses are pointless.

Especially that miserly Carlos Brito is the devil incarnate. His uberprofit-driven management style has even lead to the saving on black/white copies and so on: employees were required to ask permission (!) to make those copies for example.

And let's not forget a number restructuring decisions that turned out to be total failures. For instance Hoegaerden, a Belgian beer, had its production facility transplanted to another city. The mistake was that the beer could only be brewed at Hoegaerden due to particular environmental conditions in order to obtain the specific taste.

Now they've revoked the decision and the brewery is back where it had been for so long :)

Check it out here:

InBev tone turns more hostile in bid for A-B

Belgian brewer InBev turned up the pressure Sunday on Anheuser-Busch Cos. to acquiesce to a takeover.In a letter made public Sunday, InBev warned Anheuser-Busch that a rumored deal by the American brewer to acquire Mexican beer maker Grupo Modelo could threaten the $65-per-share price that InBev offered for Anheuser-Busch on Wednesday.

InBev's letter also made an indirect appeal to Anheuser-Busch shareholders, arguing that the St. Louis company has no alternative as attractive as a takeover by InBev.

Speculation grew last week that Anheuser-Busch might try to acquire the half of Grupo Modelo that it doesn't already own as a way to fend off InBev's takeover bid.

By buying the rest of Grupo Modelo — the maker of Corona and Mexico's biggest brewer — Anheuser-Busch could make itself too expensive for InBev to buy. Analysts have speculated that such a deal could cost Anheuser-Busch as much as $15 billion.

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(source: STLToday.com)