Gone hunting. Yesterday Africa, tomorrow the world - SABMiller becomes the global number 2 brewer
"We are a lean, mean, fighting machine." Graham Mackay chose his words carefully. And then acted on them. A year ago he announced that South African Breweries would buy a first world brewer. Finally, this past May the developing market brewer took over the second largest brewer of the US, Miller Brewing Company, to become SABMiller.
A lean, mean, fighting machine." A CEO who likens his company to a boxer. Such a CEO is hard to find. Certainly among brewers whose executives from St. Louis to Tokyo will do just about anything to soften their company’s image around the edges to appear cuddly and wholesome, i.e. politically correct, ecologically conscientious and socially accountable. It takes someone who is big-game-sure or ... Graham Mackay. Hence the American connection....
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