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...More recently, it purchased a majority stake in newsletter publisher Morning Brew. Axel Springer is already in a 50/50 joint venture with Politico for a Europe-focused version of its website....
Proxy groups have been at forefront of battles between companies and investors
...JAB also holds majority stakes in Caribou Coffee Company and Einstein Bagels Co....
...This is important in a market where the share of mainstream beer brands such as Miller Lite and AB InBev’s Budweiser is being eaten into by demand for craft brews....
The chance to take full control of MillerCoors presents a ‘game changer’ for US-Canadian rival
...In spite of their dominance of the US beer market, both MillerCoors and AB InBev still face a growing threat from craft brews, which en masse have been making steady inroads with an increasing share of about...
...While only a handful of operators brew the world’s biggest brands, there are thousands of small breweries making craft beer, in Europe and the US....
...Meanwhile, in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, BP said it had made a “significant” oil discovery in its Gila prospect. But a well drilled off Brazil – Pitanga – turned out to be a duster....
...Governments, in recognition of the latter and also of the role commercial brews play in weaning drinkers of illicit and sometimes life-threatening hooch, have responded by waiving or reducing excise duty...
...In emerging markets, analysts at Investec Securities cautioned that “the devil is in the regional detail”, noting that Latin America’s growth was buoyed by a drive towards cheaper brews....
...In the 1980s, InBev acquired two highly regarded Belgian brews, Hoegaarden and Leffe....
...Shares in ADM have surged 22 per cent since early June, when the Russia crisis started to brew....
...For the past 22 years, Anheuser-Busch let Budweiser’s share of the US market decline because consumer tastes were shifting towards lighter brews and growth from its Bud Light brand more than compensated...
...The story then highlighted Anheuser, which brews Budweiser, as a prime candidate, (does an “iconic” brand make an “iconic” company?)...
...As the answer is obvious (people everywhere drink to feel good), what makes the book is its insight into how different countries drink their brews....
...Designers hit the bottle As drinkers have drifted away from beer to wine and spirits in the US and western Europe, some brewers have tried to win them back by introducing newfangled brews flavoured with...
...Anheuser’s success with Budweiser is based on an impressive marketing feat: persuading many wealthy Chinese consumers that the everyman US Bud beer is a super premium brew worth paying three or more times...
...SABMiller says building a new plant will also make it easier to produce premium brews, such as its Miller Genuine Draft, although the high-end market in China remains very challenging....
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