Monday, July 14, 2008

"Dit Spruiten staande aan je." Welcome, InBev. (Also, see if you can find the Swedish Bikini Team hidden in this post.)

In case you were wondering how to say, "This Bud's for you", in Dutch, which is one of two languages spoken in Belgium (French being the other), the headquarters of InBev, the new owner of Anheuser Busch. Or try, "Deze 'Bud' is voor jou" if that's easier for you.

After a month of resistance, Budweiser - dubbed the King of Beers - is joining Stella Artois and Beck's at the world's largest beer company, created through InBev's $52 billion (£26bn) takeover of Anheuser-Busch.

Anheuser-Busch InBev will get two seats on the group's 14-member board, with Anheuser chief executive August Busch IV taking one of the seats while the other will go to a current or former director of Anheuser's board. InBev said today it would keep the North American headquarters of the company in St Louis and pledged not to close any of Anheuser's 12 breweries. The Anheuser's theme parks - that may be another story.

First the Chrysler Building in NYC gets sold to some Saudi investors last week and now the King of Beers - gone the way of foreign owners. I wonder how much I could get if I sold my body to the Swedish Bikini Team? "Jef ej halta!" Whoo!

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