"Credit crunch what credit crunch?" asked Dominic Walsh in the Times. InBev, The Belgian brewing giant, has agreed a $61bn takeover of Anheuser-Busch, for which it managed to raise $45bn of debt. The deal creates a "global juggernaut", said The WallStreet Journal a global top-five consumer products company with combined sales last year of $36bn. With this deal, "InBev has scored a coup", said John Foley on Breakingviews. Allied with AB, the firm will be less reliant on risky Latin American markets, and gets a "strong base in the world's fastest growing beer market" China. Furthermore, noted Walsh, InBev now controls Budweiser, the 'King of Beers', "an iconic brand" never properly exploited by AB.
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