Takeover to create world's biggest brewer
Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch today agreed a US$52bn (€32.7bn) takeover bid from Stella Artois maker InBev.
The deal will create the world's biggest brewer, to be called Anheuser-Busch InBev, leapfrogging the current brewing number one, Peroni-maker SABMiller. The new firm will also be one of the world's five biggest consumer firms.