Sort by TexasFreds (Free subscription) - 07/14/2008 - YouTube
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The maker of the King of Beers has agreed to go to work for the Belgian brewer InBev SA. Anheuser Busch Cos. said early Monday it had agreed to a sweetened $52 billion takeover bid from InBev, creating the world’s largest brewer and heading off what was shaping up as an [...]
Sort by BoomTown - All Things Digital (Free subscription) - 07/23/2008 - YouTube
... irked that its efforts have been vexed once again by the proxy fight settlement that its one-time takeover quarry Yahoo made earlier this week with activist investor Carl Ichan. Icahn had been recently working in concert with Microsoft to try to pressure Yahoo to strike a deal to sell its its search business. That attempt failed badly and, in fact, the repercussions of the failure sent Icahn...
Sort by Theodore's World (Free subscription) - 07/14/2008 - YouTube
My very favorite Anheuser Busch commercial !! . The US brewer Anheuser-Busch has agreed to be taken over by Belgium-based InBev, in a move that will create the world's largest beer maker. BBC The $50bn (£25bn) takeover bid by...
Sort by Brookston Beer Bulletin (Free subscription) - 07/13/2008 - YouTube
... another and the aggressive arguments advanced and language used in them. Since the initial June 11 takeover bid by InBev to acquire Anheuser-Busch , relations between the two have become increasingly rancorous as the takeover bid grew more and more hostile. But Brito brushed aside all that ill-will with four beautifully concise little words. You can all but see him waving his hand...
Sort by Tech Confidential Blog (Free subscription) - 07/13/2008 - YouTube
Yahoo! Inc. [YHOO] on Saturday rejected a new takeover bid from Pinky and the Brain, aka Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer [MSFT] and activist investor Carl Icahn. Under...
Sort by AdPulp (Free subscription) - 07/07/2008 - YouTube
According to Ad Age , Belgium-based, Brazilian-run InBev not only has largely succeeded in controlling the media's narrative of its $46 billion takeover bid for Anheuser-Busch, it's also managed to emerge looking more sympathetic in the process. Public-relations experts, analysts and journalists covering the saga attribute InBev's public-relations coup to an open and aggressive approach that...
Sort by NewsBusters (Free subscription) - 05/04/2008 - YouTube
Last Wednesday, ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" exposed a serious flaw in a television advertisement Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is running in Indiana (video embedded right, h/t Gateway Pundit ). In fact, Indiana newspapers began pointing out the former first lady's mistake almost three weeks ago after she spoke at a school in that state. Yet, according to LexisNexis,...
