InBev Registers $46 Billion Bid for Anheuser-Busch
Belgium-based brewer InBev has launched an unsolicited bid to buy Anheuser-Busch for about $46 billion. Anheuser-Busch, which makes Budweiser and Michelob, is the world's third largest brewer, in terms of volume. InBev — which makes Stella Artois — is the second largest.
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STEVE INSKEEP, host:
This business story says it all. It's a bid for Budweiser.
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INSKEEP: Our director just added, this bid's for you.
A Belgian-based brewer called InBev has launched an unsolicited bid to buy Anheuser-Busch for about $46 billion. Anheuser-Busch makes Budweiser and Michelob. It's the world's third-largest brewer in terms of volume, and now it has this buy offer from the world's second largest brewer. If this were to become a reality, it rates as the possibility that your Bud would come from the same company that makes Stella Artois - Budweiser. One hitch is that Anheuser-Busch's CEO August A. Busch IV reportedly does not want to sell the company, and he may try to fight the takeover bid.
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