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India | It seems grossly unfair. The Delhi government has banned AB-InBev from selling beer in the Indian capital for three years, because the previous owner of its Indian subsidiary, SABMiller, had fiddled with its tax payments.
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Australia | Asahi had moved swiftly to buy Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) from AB-InBev for USD 11 billion or 15 times EBITDA, after the world’s number one brewer looked to raise cash in the wake of its junked IPO of its Asian business.
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Australia | Insiders seem divided over the impact of Asahi’s acquisition of Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) from AB-InBev in July 2019.
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Belgium | The embarrassment of toing and froing with its Asia IPO will soon be forgotten. But the implications are clear for all to see: financial markets no longer play to the tune of AB-InBev.
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Australia – Under globalisation, brewers have become used to being reduced to a plaything at the mercy of their owners and none more so than Carlton & United (CUB).
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Australia | It’s a fire sale by another name. After its aborted IPO on 12 July 2019, AB-InBev has moved quickly and sold its Australian unit CUB to Japan’s brewer Asahi for an enterprise value of USD 11.3 billion.
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Israel | AB-InBev plans to open a cybersecurity unit in Tel Aviv after an upsurge in hacking attacks. In recent times, AB-InBev has had to deal with various cybersecurity attacks.
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South Korea | The government has decided to change its liquor tax system for the first time in 50 years, shifting from a price-based to volume-based system.
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Thailand | Two Dutch beer brands – Heineken and Bavaria – are actively promoting non-alcoholic beers to capture growth amid a stagnating beer market as consumers become more health-conscious.
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Australia | Coopers Brewery, Australia’s largest family-owned brewery, is currently searching for the nation’s best homebrewer through its Master of the Brewniverse competition.


