When I was a teenager in the Nineties, it seemed that the world was full of people droning on about the Seventies: Space Hoppers and Spangles and David Bowie being a bit gay on Top of the Pops... more
Comment: Who would want to be the top man at the Pru? The odds are shortening that it will be someone other than Tidjane Thiam after the rights issue disaster... more
The alcohol giants behind Carlsberg, Stella Artois and Becks are to be “named and shamed” by the Government over their failure to adopt health warning labels... more
No one likes a show off. Except maybe the French. Charlie Winston was drowned in screams as he took to the stage in a packed Islington Academy.... more
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
One of Britain’s most wholesome brands of alcohol (if such a thing exists) is to merge with a booze brand with one of the roughest reputations of the lot ... 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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Retrospect is a fine thing. Back in the Britpop era — a time of Stella Artois and Loaded magazine, Kangol hats and Gareth Southgate, the closest my generation would ever come to a Summer of Love — the band that captured the national mood was Oasis.... more
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
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 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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