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...Bud Light has been battling another challenge: it lags both Corona and Modelo among beers favoured by Gen Z consumers, a Cowen survey found last year....
...This week also saw online used car retailer Cazoo become the fastest-ever British unicorn, payments start-up Checkout.com hit a $5.5bn valuation and Berlin start-ups take the spotlight in a post-corona world...
...It showed a mother who broke after just two days of trying to marshal the schedules of her children as well as dozens of messages on WhatsApp: “If we don’t die of corona, we’ll die of distance learning,”...
...A rare eclipse set to traverse the US on Monday has sparked a tourism bonanza, as people flock to towns in its path to see the sun’s corona encircle the moon....
...InBev achieved synergies amounting to 18 per cent of Anheuser-Busch’s sales when it bought the Budweiser brewer in 2008 and 21 per cent from Modelo, the Mexican brewer of Corona....
...After the agency filed a lawsuit, the companies in 2013 agreed to sell a brewery in Mexico and the rights to Corona and other Grupo Modelo brands to Constellation....
...A marketing campaign for its newly acquired beers, including Model Especial and Corona, had lured consumers as the summer began, the brewer said....
...The duo said they will work to build a new stadium in the area, possibly in the Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, home to the US Open tennis complex, and near Citi Field, where the New York Mets baseball...
...It will sell a brewery and brand rights to Modelo’s beers in the US (which include Corona) to Constellation Brands for $3bn....
...He lost $62m in paper wealth this month amid regulatory concerns over AB InBev’s $20bn bid for Mexico’s Modelo, brewer of Corona....
...The deal could have been even sweeter for AB InBev if it had been able to control the marketing and distribution of Corona in the US....
...That includes pushing Modelo brands, such as Corona, through AB InBev’s global distribution....
...Budweiser is the number two global brand after Heineken, and ahead of Corona, according to 2010 data from data group Plato Logic. In 2009 it ranked at number three....
...But the US partnership with Heineken has underperformed, industry insiders say, as Femsa’s beers have struggled to compete against fellow Mexican brewer Modelo and its ubiquitous top beer, Corona....
...Corona has already started to cut prices and, as it is opening the world’s largest brewery this year, will probably continue to do so. Budweiser of old would not tolerate any loss of market share....
...As the Corona brand grew increasingly successful, it became clearer that Modelo had agreed to a low price and to somewhat unfavourable terms when it cut the deal....
...But people close to InBev said it was likely InBev would want to retain Modelo and its Corona brand....
...Anheuser’s other international operations are focused in Mexico, where it owns half the shares of Grupo Modelo, the brewer of Corona, and in China, where it has a 27 per cent in the Tsingtao brewery....
...Snow could become the world’s number two beer by volume after Budweiser, displacing Brazil’s Skol and Mexico’s Corona....
...Mr Baker said Anheuser was benefiting from growth in imported brands through its 50 per cent stake in Mexico’s Grupo Modelo, maker of Corona, the most popular foreign beer in the US....
...Mr Growe attributed the performance in part to strong underlying growth at Modelo, the Mexican makers of Corona. Anheuser’s shares closed 5 per cent higher at $45 on Wednesday....
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