AB InBev and SABMiller: What Investors Need to Know About One of the Biggest Deals in History

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🗓️ 13 October 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Following a publicized and contentious month-long courtship, the No. 1 and No. 2 brewers are combining to create a massive entity controlling 30% of the global beer market.

Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller expect to realize billions of dollars in synergies and a worldwide reach, but the combined entity still needs to clear regulatory hurdles and manage a ballooning debt balance before the union is official.

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0:00.0	A Brewing Behemeth is born on this Consumer Goods Edition of Industry Focus.
0:07.0	Greetings fools, I am Sean O'Reilly here at full headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.
0:18.2	It is Tuesday October 13, 2015 and with me today is the insightful Vincent Shen.
0:23.3	How's it going, Vince?
0:24.3	How you doing Sean?
0:25.3	Not too shabby.
0:26.3	So last week we mentioned briefly that already gargantuan beverage companies,
0:31.2	S. A. B. Miller and A. B. Inbev were in talks to potentially merge.
0:35.4	Those talks have now borne fruit and we're not getting a giant, we're getting a
0:40.0	Leviathan.
0:41.2	This thing is going to be massive.
0:44.0	Yep.
0:45.0	I got to make this joke or it's not really even a joke.
0:48.0	It's probably a truth.
0:49.0	Are there any antitrust concerns over this deal?
0:51.0	Because this is going to be huge.
0:52.0	Yeah. We'll get to be huge. Yeah.
0:53.2	We'll get to that later.
0:54.7	So first, just give our listeners a high level background of what's been going on between these
0:58.8	two companies.
0:59.8	SAB Miller was obviously playing hard to get.
1:02.0	Yes. What's been going on?
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