The deed is all but done, Budweiser is now Belgian, at least when it’s not Czech. I guess in international business – as in all business – it’s money which does the talking in the end.

Anheuser-Busch, one of the largest beer brewing companies in the world, has been under pressure for a number of years and they are now faced with a take-over bid from InBev. (Given the poor taste of their main product, Budweiser, its amazing to me they didn’t bite the bullet years ago.)
A “Classic Tale” of international mergers & acquisitions: huge American brand falls on hard times and becomes victim to a global company not based in the US. You can hear the cries of the Nascar fans already: Keep our Bud American!
According to the International Herald Tribune (IHT) however, the bad …read more