AB InBev (NYSE: BUD) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Leuven, Belgium that owns 21 consumer brands, and has 7 recorded transactions.[1]
AB InBev is the largest brewer in the world, formed in 2008 when the Belgian-Brazilian InBev acquired Anheuser-Busch and enlarged again in 2016 by taking over SABMiller. Its beers are sold in about 150 countries.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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AB InBev acquired SABMiller in one of the largest takeovers ever recorded, creating a brewer with roughly a quarter of the beer sold worldwide. Regulators in the United States, Europe, China and South Africa required extensive divestitures, including SABMiller's stake in MillerCoors and its European Peroni, Grolsch and Meantime brands.
Belgian-Brazilian brewer InBev acquired Anheuser-Busch for $70 a share in cash after an initially hostile approach, creating Anheuser-Busch InBev and moving control of Budweiser out of the United States.
Asahi acquired Carlton & United Breweries, the Australian business AB InBev had inherited with SABMiller, giving it Victoria Bitter and Carlton Draught. The Australian competition regulator required Asahi to divest several cider and beer brands before approving the deal.
Asahi bought SABMiller's central and eastern European businesses from AB InBev, including Pilsner Urquell in the Czech Republic and Tyskie in Poland, in the second and larger tranche of divestitures required to clear the SABMiller merger.
AB InBev sold Peroni, Grolsch and Meantime to Asahi as part of the divestitures required to obtain competition clearance for its acquisition of SABMiller. It was the Japanese brewer's first substantial European business.
Molson Coors bought SABMiller's 58% of the MillerCoors joint venture and the worldwide Miller brand portfolio, a divestiture required to let AB InBev complete its takeover of SABMiller.
To settle the Department of Justice lawsuit blocking AB InBev's acquisition of Grupo Modelo, AB InBev sold Constellation Brands the perpetual rights to Corona, Modelo Especial and Pacífico in the United States, together with the Piedras Negras brewery. This is why Corona has a different owner in the United States than everywhere else.
| Case | Regulator | Decision | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:13-cv-00127 (D.D.C.) | doj antitrust | cleared with remedies | 19 April 2013 |
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AB InBev owns 21 consumer brands tracked here, including Franziskaner, Budweiser, Beck's, Hoegaarden, Corona and Stella Artois.
Yes. AB InBev is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and was founded in 2008.
AB InBev is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as BUD on the NYSE.
The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Castle Lager and Aguila on 10 October 2016.
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