The view of the InBev-A-B takeover from St. Louis
By William Brand
Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 7:31 am in Beer Business, General.
If the InBev-Anheuser-Busch merger interests you, the best place to go on the Web is the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Readers are telling the newspaper they don’t like the takeover by a Belgium company There’s a lot of concern for the future. But the most fascinating thing for me is the A-B timeline and great old historic photos like this one.
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July 14th, 2008 at 10:39 am
[...] The view of the InBev-AB takeover from St. Louis [...]
July 14th, 2008 at 10:43 am
I will not be drinking Bud anymore. It is no longer an American company. I buy American. Let InBev’s latest purchase loose 75% of it’s original value then buy it back - that’s the American way - join me, my fellow Bud men.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:52 am
How about Lagunitas Pils or Gordon Biersch Pilsener or Blonde Bock instead. Better beers, but in the same style.
Otherwise, you’re s— out of of American beer. Coors is brewed in Colorado; the company hq is now in Canada and Coors and Miller are marketing their beers together, Miller isowned by South African Breweries. The official name now is SABMiller and the official name foir Coors is MolsonCoors and soon the official nuame for A-B is Anhueser-Busch-InBev.
In fact, the largest American-owned brewery is Sam Adams. Not a bad choice as an alternatie to Bud.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I am boycotting Budweiser because of this. I don’t want the profits of AB going to another country. It’s un-American.
Sam Adams is the new King of Beers, that is what I will be drinking from now on. Boycott Bud, keep the profits in America!
July 14th, 2008 at 11:11 am
wow… Sam Adams the new King of Beers. Amen to that. You;ve coined a great new phrase Ryan…
July 14th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Drink local! There doesn’t need to be a king.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Drink Drakes….a pint a day keeps scurvy away
July 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Sam Adams, the King?
I don’t think that irony would sit well with the brewer/patriot/revolutionary.
Maybe Sam Adams, the Duly Elected President of Beers!