Anheuser-Busch InBev
Anheuser -Busch InBev (AB - InBev NV) - based on volume - the largest brewery group in the world. It was created in 2008 through the acquisition of Anheuser -Busch by the Belgian- Brazilian InBev Group. The company is listed on the Brussels stock exchange Euro Next. It employs over 150,000 people and is represented by over 200 brands in over 140 countries. The global beer production is 358.8 million hectoliters; corresponding to a global market share of 18.6 percent.
Economic Development
In 2010, reported among others, the Münchner Merkur in Germany on the role of brands spade and Löwenbräu - as they should no longer play a role after the realignment of the Group. However, even in 2014 the brand beers Löwenbräu and Spaten Original Munich are sold. These brands are even listed by AB Inbev as Local Champion Brands on the list of brands, where Franciscans is mentioned.
In Germany, the production volume totaled 8.1 million hectoliters, which still corresponds in volume terms a market share of 8.8% in 2013.
In the United States the rate of job losses has been continued.
End of 2009, Anheuser-Busch InBev sold its Eastern European business to the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners for about 3 billion U.S. dollars, but retained the right to the Staropramen brand to brew in several countries and distribute.
Through acquisitions AB Inbev has continued to grow. So the international part of the Mexican Grupo Modelo has been taken over ( excluding USA ) with the world famous brand Corona 2013. AB Inbev it goes, with the acquired companies to take advantage of synergy potentials, thereby saving costs.
Early 2014 took over AB Inbev for a total of $ 5.8 billion South Korean suppliers Oriental who comes there to a market share of 60 percent.
The fact that the company is working economically successful, shows the evolution of the dividend per share, which is $ 0.35 for the fiscal year 2008 to $ 2.83, proposed in 2013, rose steadily.
Participation in the cartel
Local subsidiaries of Anheuser -Busch InBev were both a beer cartel in terms of price fixing for beer in the Netherlands in the years 1996-1999, as also involved in a beer cartel in Germany in the years 2006 and 2008. In both cartels acted Anheuser -Busch InBev before the competition authorities as a witness and thus went unpunished.
Brands
The company's website distinguishes between global brands, international brands and local leading brands.
Global brands
- Budweiser ( American Lager ) ( in the EU because of trademark issues as " Bud " )
- Corona
- Stella Artois
International brands
- Beck's
- Leffe
- Hoegaarden
Local brands (selection)
Belgian brands
- Belle -Vue ( Kriek and others)
- Julius
- Jupiler
- Leffe
- Piedboeuf
- Safir
- Stella Artois
- Vieuxtemps
German brands
- Beck's
- Diebels
- Franciscan ( Spaten- Löwenbräu Group)
- Guild
- Haake Beck
- Hasseroeder
- Lowenbrau ( Löwenbräu Spade Group)
- Remmer -Bräu
- Spaten ( Spaten- Löwenbräu Group)
- St. Pauli Girl
South American brands
- Antarctica ( Brazil)
- Bohemia ( Brazil)
- Brahma (Brazil )
- Caracu (Brazil )
- Guaraná Antarctica ( soft drink; Brazil)
- Guaraná Brahma ( soft drink; Brazil)
- Liber
- Skol
- Sukita ( soft drink )
More Brands
- Alexander Keith's (Canada)
- Baisha (China)
- BagBier (Russia, CIS )
- Bass (United Kingdom)
- Boddingtons (United Kingdom)
- Boomerang (France)
- Bud Light ( Canada / USA)
- Chernigivske (Ukraine )
- Diekirch ( Luxembourg )
- Dommelsch (Netherlands)
- Double Deer (China)
- Harbin (China)
- Hertog Jan (The Netherlands )
- Jinling (China)
- Jinlongquan (China)
- KK (China)
- Klinskoye (Russia)
- Kokanee (Canada)
- La Bécasse (France)
- Labatt (Canada)
- Lakeport Pilsener (Canada)
- Marathon (Brazil, soft drink )
- Michelob bearing ( USA)
- Ultra Modelo (Mexico)
- Mousel ( Luxembourg )
- Paceña (Bolivia )
- Permskoye Gubernskoye (Russia)
- Quilmes Cristal (Argentina )
- Red Shilliang (China)
- Rifey (Russia)
- Rogan (Ukraine )
- Sedrin (China)
- Sibirskaya Korona (Russia, CIS )
- St. Pauli Girl ( USA)
- Tolstiak (Russia, CIS )
- Yali (China)
- Yantar (Ukraine )
- Zizhulin (China)
- Zhujiang (China)
- Pilsen, Bavaria (Paraguay )