Anheuser-Busch Knocked Down To #3
 

Now they have to buy someone else out ...

http://beeradvocate.com/forum/read.php?thread=570909

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Jason Alstrom
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J. Alstrom wrote:

> Now they have to buy someone else out ...
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> http://beeradvocate.com/forum/read.php?thread=570909

Quoted from the original source in
<http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2005/10/03/daily66.html>:

"More than 98 percent of London-based SABMiller's shareholders approved
the deal, which makes SABMiller the world's second-largest brewer behind
Belgium's InBev, and bumps St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. to
third place."

So, there are at least a couple of ways to measure "largest." One is by
financial turnover; the other is by volume of production. The SLBJ
article seems to rank the megabrewers on production volume, rather than
financial turnover; I recall that A-B still held the edge over InBev in
that regard. What's the situation now? Any sources out there to
clarify? Earth to Lew: got some numbers for us?
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dgs

"dgs" > wrote in message
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> J. Alstrom wrote:
>> Now they have to buy someone else out ...
>> http://beeradvocate.com/forum/read.php?thread=570909
>
> Quoted from the original source in
> <http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2005/10/03/daily66.html>:
>
> "More than 98 percent of London-based SABMiller's shareholders approved
> the deal, which makes SABMiller the world's second-largest brewer behind
> Belgium's InBev, and bumps St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. to
> third place."
>
> So, there are at least a couple of ways to measure "largest." One is by
> financial turnover; the other is by volume of production. The SLBJ
> article seems to rank the megabrewers on production volume, rather than
> financial turnover; I recall that A-B still held the edge over InBev in
> that regard. What's the situation now? Any sources out there to
> clarify? Earth to Lew: got some numbers for us?

A-B still had the edge on InBev in sales by dollars/money due to its large
position in the U.S. market, a market InBev has taken direct aim at. They're
launching Brahma here in a big way, very soon: test-marketing has already
begun. But where this puts SAB/Miller...dunno. They've obviously got a big
U.S. position as well. But margins in Europe are shockingly low, and I doubt
anyone would be shocked by how low Latin American margins are. Sorry,
nothing hard at this point.

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Lew Bryson

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