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Molson Coors, Foster's: Corporate strategy and the distant shore (from Corporate Dealmaker)

The financial crisis gets compared to all manner of disasters, with earthquakes and storms among the most popular. For many corporate strategists, the storm metaphor is probably the most accurate. The company is a ship trying to get from here to there. A financial typhoon may capsize it, blow it...

Posted on November 7, 2008 10:50 AM

InBev eyes South Korea sale to help pay for Bud (from Corporate Dealmaker)

To help finance its $52 billion acquisition of Anheuser-Busch Cos., InBev SA is planning to put its South Korean beer business up for sale. Oriental Brewery, the second-largest brewery in South Korea, which sells Beck's and Stella Artois, could go for around $2 billion, according to The Guardian. It was...

Posted on September 2, 2008 4:01 PM

Keeping it real in strategic M&A (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Strategic acquirers were expected to be more active than financial ones during the credit crunch. But this much more active? For the first seven months of 2008, Dealogic reports, global dollar volume for strategic deals was off only 15%, compared with a 74% drop for financial deals. And the number...

Posted on August 13, 2008 9:23 AM

InBev-Bud: Another chapter in 'globalization and its discontents' (from Corporate Dealmaker)

We haven't heard much from Missouri politicians in the last week on the proposed acquisition of Anheuser-Busch Cos. by the Brazilian-Belgian InBev SA. But local Republicans and Democrats alike have said they're against it, and Budweiser fans in St. Louis and around the country are doing their best to drum...

Posted on June 27, 2008 2:43 PM

Busch theme park unit: The view from Dubai (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Anheuser-Busch Cos., we read, will reject InBev SA's takeover offer and propose a restructuring that would include the sale of its theme park unit. Question: Why do they have an entertainment unit, how is it doing, and who might buy it? The answer to the first question comes from A-B's...

Posted on June 26, 2008 12:31 PM