The biggest European private equity deal of the year was revealed today, as CVC Capital Partners announced that it will pay as much as $3.03 billion (£1.8 billion) for AB InBev’s central European operations ... more
Despite dropping its sponsorship of the Queen’s Club tennis tournament for the first time in 30 years this summer, sales of Stella surged by nearly 7% between April and June
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A bevy of private-equity firms are jostling to buy the Czech brewer Staropramen and the rest of the central and eastern European beer interests of the Budweiser and Stella Artois brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev... more
IT will be interesting to see whether Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese is still in his job next year to claim the annual bonus that is de rigueur for top company bosses. ... more
Advertising at the London Olympics is set to be much lower than previous recent games after one of the world’s biggest spenders said it would slash its spending
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There's nothing funny about the Bernie Madoff scandal. Nothing at all. Except it's hard to shake the feeling that some of his victims got exactly what they voted for... more
Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman, who is widely suspected of plotting to get the top job, tied herself in knots at Prime Minister's Questions this week over the fate of Sir Fred Goodwin... more
What we do not want to see is indebted banks bailed out by the taxpayer using their new lease of life to throw indebted taxpayers out of their homes... more
These are nervous times for some of the big-money Americans based over here who have been investing in the Us Presidential race as Barack Obama and John McCain run neck and neck in the polls during the party convention season... more
August Busch IV, the brewing heir who once vowed he would never sell his family's Budweiser and Michelob beer business, will pick up a multimillion-dollar pay package from the sale... more
Belgian brewer InBev is expected to announce the main banks backing the loan for its acquisition of Budweiser owner Anheuser-Busch by next week... more
Stella Artois brewer InBev is looking to raise as much as $2.9 billion (£1.5 billion) by selling theme parks owned by new acquisition Anheuser-Busch... more
Stella Artois brewer InBev today issued a veiled threat to go hostile with its $46 billion (£23 billon) takeover bid for Budweiser maker Anheuser-Busch (A-B)... more
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