On 17 May 2013 AB-InBev snapped up another beer distributor. It bought C&G Distributing Company in Lima, Ohio, for an undisclosed sum, merely weeks before a new law comes into effect that prevents brewers in the state of Ohio from acquiring beer distributors.

They don’t seem to rush things down in Texas. Although the Gambrinus Company ranks fourth among U.S. craft brewers in terms of volume, it has up till now avoided selling its Shiner beers in New York City.

Not wanting to be left out in the rush to the next Clondyke, AB-InBev’s CEO Carlos Brito told shareholders on 24 April 2013 at AB-InBev’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting (ASM) that his company plans to join rivals in Vietnam at the end of 2014 with the construction of a brewery.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and AB–InBev jointly requested on 5 April 2013 that a stay in their legal fight be extended to 23 April 213. However, they said they had reached the framework of an agreement to settle.

Who are these people that are suing Anheuser–Busch for millions of dollars in damages over claims that the brewer is watering down its Budweiser, Michelob and other brands? Since the end of February 2013 at least eight lawsuits have been filed against Anheuser–Busch (A–B), the U.S. unit of AB–InBev, accusing it of adding water to several beers, bringing the alcohol levels in the beers below those stated on the labels.

The name “Joseph Alioto” is probably mud at AB–InBev, or unprintably worse. Mr Alioto is a San Francisco antitrust attorney who on 22 March 2013 filed a private antitrust lawsuit in California on behalf of nine consumers, thus hoping to prevent AB–InBev’s USD 20.1 billion takeover of Grupo Modelo.

How SABMiller can be so sure that their complaint with Mexico’s competition watchdog will be successful this time, is beyond us. Through their – legal –exclusivity contracts with retailers, Grupo Modelo and Heineken have held the Mexican market in a tight grip, thus preventing SABMiller from gaining significant market share. After 20 years of trying, SABMiller has only managed to gain just 0.7 percent of market share.

This beggars belief. Only hours after it was announced that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez had died of cancer on 5 March 2013, the Forbes business magazine, on its website, ran an article entitled, yes, "What does the death of the ‘Comandante’ mean to Venezuelan billionaires? Will they get richer now that the ‘21st century socialist’ is gone?"

Seeing that their own brands are not really going anywhere in the highly lucrative Canadian market, Miller Brewing Company, the U.S. subsidiary of SABMiller, has terminated its Canadian licence agreement with Molson Coors Canada as of 22 July 2013. Although Molson Coors Canada has filed a lawsuit in Ontario seeking to prevent the termination of the license agreement, Miller is vigorously defending that action and maintains its right to terminate, Canadian media report.

The Siebel Institute of Technology, America’s oldest brewing school, announced that in the summer of 2013 it will be moving its campus to the facilities of Kendall College in Chicago.