Viewsroom: AB InBev’s stubborn financial beer gut
Viewsroom
Reuters
4.4 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. |
| 0:03.2 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab. |
| 0:08.3 | Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. |
| 0:11.0 | Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal. |
| 0:16.3 | Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last. |
| 0:20.6 | The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Roalders' News. |
| 0:30.4 | You're listening to The Views Room, brought to you by Breaking Views. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm Anthony Curry, and with me is my co-host, Jennifer Saber. |
| 0:36.1 | Hi, Jen. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello. |
| 0:37.4 | So this week, we're going to try and work out what happened to Giant Brewer Anheuser-Busch Inbebib, or AB InBeb, as most people call it. |
| 0:45.6 | Last week it pulled its IPO of its Asia-Pacific unit and that's caused a bit of a ripple, not just within the beer industry, |
| 0:53.6 | but also beyond in Hong Kong as a financial sender. And to discuss it a ripple, not just within the beer industry, but also beyond |
| 0:54.5 | in Hong Kong as a financial centre. And to discuss it with us, we have on the phone, a drinks |
| 0:58.8 | expert from London, Dasha Afanaseva. And also joining in the studio on pseudo, a busman's holiday |
| 1:06.0 | from Hong Kong is Jeff Goldfab, the Asia Editor. Welcome to you both. Thank you. |
| 1:10.9 | So let's jump in with the first question. Why did AB&B. |
| 1:15.6 | And Beth pull the IPO of its Asia unit? What's the deal here? |
| 1:20.1 | It seems like it was a combination of events. Obviously, there has been some concern about |
| 1:25.0 | Hong Kong in the markets with the protests over an extradition law that has |
| 1:31.3 | really escalated into all sorts of craziness in Hong Kong, which is, you know, I think led to |
| 1:37.0 | some fears among investors about what's exactly what's going on. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Reuters, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Reuters and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

