Felix Salmon submits: There's an air of inevitability about this InBev bid for Anheuser Busch (BUD): It might take a while, it might end up having to be raised, but I have
a feeling that, sooner or later, it's going to happen. When it does,
the world will finally have a truly global brewing company - and that
company will be run by Brazilians.
InBev, of course, is the result of a merger between Brazil's Ambev
and Belgium's Interbrew. But although the Belgian company was larger,
it was the Brazilians who took the reins, with InBev being run by CEO
Carlos Brito and CFO Felipe Dutra. These guys think big: Dutra has been
negotiating with Jamie Dimon directly about a $40 billion syndicated loan plus a bridge of somewhere between $10 billion and $17 billion. Complete Story »
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Felix Salmon submits: There's an air of inevitability about this InBev bid for Anheuser Busch (BUD): It might take a while, it might end up having to be raised, but I have
a feeling that, sooner or later, it's going to happen. When it does,
the world will finally have a truly global brewing company - and that
company will be run by Brazilians.
InBev, of course, is the result of a merger between Brazil's Ambev
and Belgium's Interbrew. But although the Belgian company was larger,
it was the Brazilians who took the reins, with InBev being run by CEO
Carlos Brito and CFO Felipe Dutra. These guys think big: Dutra has been
negotiating with Jamie Dimon directly about a $40 billion syndicated loan plus a bridge of somewhere between $10 billion and $17 billion. Complete Story »
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