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Procurement of SABMiller and steps for the endowment of AB InBev:

SABMiller is a British multinational competitor soft drink and brewing company. In October 2015, Anheuser-Busch InBev declared a successful all-cash bid to gain its largest competitor, SABMiller's shares, for £ 70 billion or £44 per share. If accepted, then the Anheuser-Busch InBev will become the third-largest global market share for beer sales and possessive half of the world's profit.

SABMiller undertakes the suggestion as the deal is done at £44 per share, but the accomplishment requires antitrust approval by regulatory agencies. In 2015, the US Department of Justice made a condition on SABMiller to derivate all its MillerCoors in the US, both miller and Coors brands and the Miller brand outside the US. The situation becomes most dangerous and tortuous. In theU.S MillerCoors has much of the Coors, and Molson Coors possesses less. Globally all of it is owned by Molson Coors.

The contract between Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller is amalgamated on Oct 10, 2016. The new forming company is known as Anheuser-Busch InBev InBev SA/NY, located in Leuven, Belgium, and its primary listing on Euronext, with a secondary listing on Mexico (MEXBOL: ABI) and with American Depository vouchers on the New York stock exchange (NYSE: BUD), and South Africa stock exchange(JSE: ANH).SABMiller despoils its share in the MillerCoors beer company to Molson Coors and stops trading on the global stock market. The agreement was approved with the regulators, and Molson Coors purchase the former SABMiller. Miller Coors also retained all the brands.

Molson Coors retained full ownership of Miller's brand portfolio outside the United States and has right over all of the brands currently working in the US and Puetro Rico, including Redd's and import brands Grolsch Pilsner Urquell and Peroni. In Canada, Molson Coors from the past SABMiller regained the right to make and market Miller Lite and Miller Genuine Draft. After Anheuser Busch InBev SA/NV (AB InBev) formation, 630 beer brands are working. It includes Corona, Quilmes, Harbin, Cass, Stella Artois, Budweiser and Bud Light, Serdin, Chernigivske, Jupiler, Skol, Leffe, Brahma, Modelo Especial, Hoegaarden, Klinskoye, Sibirskaya Korona, Michelob Ultra, and Chernigivske. This company also trades in the soft drinks business and made bottling contracts with Coca-Cola Co. and Pepsico through its subsidiary, Ambev. In December 2016, Coca Cola Co.purchase operations all those in Africa and many previous SABMiller.

Before acquiring Anheuser-Busch InBev, all the contracts held with regulators were permitted to receive SABMiller. The company sold out the Peroni and Grolsch brands to Asahi on Oct 13, 2016. Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV agreed on Dec 21, after acquiring SABMiller to market the previous SABMiller Ltd. manufacturer in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania Hungary to Asahi Breweries Group Holding, Ltd. Worth for US$ 7.8 billion. The most popular brands are Yukie, Pilsner Urquell, Dreher, Lech, and Ursus.

The formation of a 50-50 joint venture was announced in August 2017 with Anadolu Efes; both operations are joined in Russia and are called AB InBev-Efes, and it holds 24 percent of Anadolu Efes.

Disputes:

US justice department reviewed in May 2017 that the company is buying distributors and restrict them not to sell the beer to its competitors. In May 2017, it was denounced by anti-competitive practices that the company is engaged to purchase all the entire stock of South African hops, and the stock is unavailable to any US craft brewers. At the same time, the company was denounced to buy a stake from the website Ratebeer, and it turns out that the buying was a conflict of interest. In autumn 2018, AB InBev dealt with Major league Baseball and the NBA. This will allow them to use athletes' names and imaging during the promotion. The player's name will be seen first time in beer ads. The ads will be made to promote safe drinking.

In March 2019, MillerCoors, the AB InBev subsidiary Anheuser-Busch opponent, was used in a fake advertisement over a Bud lite commercial. It comes to air during the 2019 Super Bowl. Miller Lite and Coors Light products have corn syrup, but the law states that corn syrup is used throughout the brewing process or contains corn syrup. This will make health-conscious customers informed that the beer has high fructose corn syrup, a false and misleading statement.

The Vice president of AB InBev largest brewing company, gives his message to Yahoo finance "Bud Light campaign is originated in order to find out the difference between Miller Lite and Coors Light as this campaign is truthful. Bud light is not used in the beer.Miller Coors has admitted to use corn syrup in a full page ad, in social media and on its website thanking Bud Light following the contention. Miller Coors's legal claim is baseless and will not discourage Bud Light from providing consumers with the transparency they stipulate, failed to discourage our valuable consumers. We are in favor of Bud light campaign and not thinking about to change the plan".

AB InBev

The company's head quarter is located in Brussels. AB InBev is active in the brewery sector. The global brewers gained around 144 percent over the period 2006-2016. Since 2011 the sector is 70 percent higher and over the past year plus 144 percent.

The past year was a profitable year for the AB InBev investors

Over the period from December 2015 till December 2016 the stock lost around 12 percent. The period between August 2011 and August 2016 was a profitable period for the investors. The stock rose on average 121 percent. AB InBev's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between 30,13 billion euros and 40,15 billion euros. AB InBev's net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 6,15 billion euros and 9,09 billion euros.

The Belgian company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average the AB InBev stock yielded a delivered a dividend yield of around 10 percent over the past 5 years.

At the end of 2015 the company had around 154,03 thousand people employed.

Healthy financed: not so much debt AB InBev

As per the end of 2015 the Belgian company's balance sheet equaled 123,97 billion euros. The total debt of the brewer was at the end of 2015 85,17 billion euros, which equals around 68,7 percent of the total balance sheet. At the end of 2016 the Belgian company was traded with a price/earnings-ratio of around 20. So investors paid 20 times the company's 2015's EPS. Based on the classical stock valuation theories the Belgian stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the Belgian company's market capitalization equaled around 184,19 billion euros. At the end of 2015 the Belgian company had around 1,64 billion stocks listed on the stock exchange(s).

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