Disrtibution, Distribution, Distribution!
I hate to see American money going overseas.....
It's meaningless to even say something like "American money going overseas" in a case like this anyway. It's a very Archie-Bunker-like 70's kind of sentiment. That attitude didn't do much for our economy back then and it sure as hell makes even less sense now.
Actually only about 28 of that is profit for the share holders. But thats a one time offering. Now all profits will be sent to the EU.
Just because A-B is profitable now is no guarantee that they'll be profitable 10, 5, or even 2 years from now.
But I guess it shouldnt matter. We should not own a single thing in America or have any pride in American products, right?
And really, InBev has done us all a favor. Drinking American now means drinking higher quality beer
We're in a new era. Globalization is changing everything and with teh dollar as weak as it is, everything American is dirt cheap (relatively) to the rest of the world.
If America wants to be #1, they have to take a serious look at how to do that and not just assume we're always going to be there. Too many Americans are WAY too proud to admit we have issues, but we do and solving them will make us the global leader again. In the meantime, people will still fly here and buy up everything we make.
ollllllo are you saying that there wont be shelve space for craftbrew due to mandatory stocking of other In-Bev product?
I dont see how selling large corportations (and dont fool yourself, InBev is going to make money hand over fist with this deal) overseas accomplishes what you are suggesting. AB pumped a lot of money into our economy. AB-InBev will also pump a lot of money into our country, but a large percentage of the overall money is going to go overseas. The American economy was better off before this deal happened.
Just curious, what is the source of your information? Last I knew it was mostly the same recipe and has changed very little over the past one hundred years.Why would he care? The beer his company is now brewing isn't the same as what he brewed.
For all the talk about Inbev's cost-cutting and the potential loss of A-B jobs here in the US, I found this interesting
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InBev has almost 3x the employees of A-B, but produces only ~50% more beer?
As a comparison, many Americans wept and lamented when a Japanese company bought Rockefeller Center in its entirety in 1989, another time when our dollar was weak. Then in 2000, when our dollar was strong again, guess what happened? Some American billionaires bought it back. Big deal.
Stubbornly sticking to the opinion that "This is bad fer 'mericans!" is laughable. Everyone is certainly entitled to their opinion, of course, but protectionism is without a doubt bad for the American economy, and that's been proven before. The InBev deal is not bad or good on any measurable scale; it's just a reflection of where the dollar is at the moment.
The Japanese lost a ton of money on that deal. They sold when real estate in Manhattan was in the tank.
And the anti-InBev-buying-A-B crowd in this forum may know tons about brewing beer, but they know f**k-all about macroeconomics.
When you start posting "ferreners!" you sound like a bush bashing ****** posting from his apple iphone in traffic driving his vw bettle on the way to the sierra club meeting.
I'd like to take you up on your offered bet that InBev will make their money back in 3-5 years. How much would you like to wager?
In a June 28 blog entry titled "InBev/AB Deal = Brewing Industry Tipping Point?", I pondered the possibility that craft brewing could benefit from the nation's current economic upheaval, high gas prices, and an InBev deal.
I suggested that craft brewers launch a campaign urging Americans to "drink local" and thereby save gas, support local businesses, etc.**
I'm not the only person who is thinking this way. The Alstrom brothers, the energy behind beeradvocate.com and its print counterpart, Beeradvocate magazine, have taken a first step with their "A Buck for Beer Advocacy!" campaign. Members of the beeradvocate.com forum have posted comments seconding the motion and outlining their own variations. My pal Jay Brooks just posted a blog entry along the same lines. If I kept hunting around, Im sure I'd find more online talk about promoting craft beer as local/green beer.
But a truly professional, nationwide, long-term media campaign requires money and lots of it. Ideally, the Brewers Association would step up; perhaps build a partnership with the Alstrom brothers. Maybe one of the bigger craft brewers could pony up some cash.
Or not. Moneys tight everywhere. The BA, for example, is a small operation; I doubt its got a lot of extra money to throw at this kind of campaign. (On the other hand, a drink local crusade gets right to the heart of what the BA is all about, right?)
Meanwhile, spread the word. When your friends talk about eating local or buying green, remind them that beer is food. And that going green begins with grassroots!
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