One of America's last great companies under attack.?

Question

Anheuser-Busch is under threat of a hostile takeover by a European company. Please sign the petition. www.saveab.com

You can complain about the beer, but we have a 50% market share, so someone is drinking it.

AB is the best company to work for and they are consistently rated in the top for employee pay and benefits.

Coors/Miller is foreign owned too, by the way.

Who is going to feel sorry for you when your company is owned by Europeans who want to slash jobs and costs?

Good beer or not, none of us deserve to have InBev come in and cut our jobs out from underneath us.

Petitions are lame, but maybe it will make a tiny difference...somehow.

Answer 1

Yup.  It is very sad.  I hope it does not happen.  On the other hand, we only have ourselves to blame.  If someone comes a long and offers more for your shares than they are worth, and you seel them to a foreigner (Not that I an saying you yourself would do this!), then you lose control over a domestic firm.

Answer 2

what the h**l...... we dont even own the roads anymore >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTI...                                                          http://www.howtobuyamerican.com/simmerma...

Answer 3

This a bad deal! When they let these two companies combime it will just create another monoply that can set the price to how they see fit. At least I don't drink, so maybe this one won't effect me.

Answer 4

It is business as usual and so it is not under attack.  Other companies have been in hostile mergers.

A similar question has been aske and answered.  This is it:

Question:

One of America's last great companies under attack.?

How many manufacturing jobs have to be lost?

Auto manufacturing sold out and destroyed by Japan

Computer and electronic companies sold out to China

There are hardly any manufacturing companies left in our Nation!

These were the backbone of America, it is what made us strong. The skills and trades in these jobs can never be replaced and once they are gone, how much more dependent does that make America on foreign production and Government control.

It is almost as if America is being systematically dismantled and destroyed from the inside out, but the rich chicken necks in this country are only worried about greed and profit.

When does it all end

ASKED by scottanthonydavis

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Anheuser-Busch possibly selling out is a scary thought. I, myself, no longer drink but its not whether you do or don't. Its as about assuring that American Business keep America Strong. It reminds me of Lee Iacocca's newest book "Where have all the Leader's Gone?" If Anheuser-Busch sells out it will be a shame.

If Anheuser-Busch is having financial issues, then eliminate dead product lines or something. DON'T SELL OUT TO FOREIGN COMPANIES!!!!! Find a US investor if you want to sell out.

That's my two cents worth!

Asker's rating: ***** 5 stars

Comment: Great answer, and I agree. Its time to bring back "real" innovative and manufacturing jobs with skills to America.

You take all the skills out of American's - you are left with nothing but a bunch of useless drones who don't know how to do anything.

Answer 5

Who says the Europeans will want to slash jobs and cut costs? Maybe they will make it better!

Answer 6

"hostile takeover by a European company",

...any chance you could be a bit less vague when you say "European", I mean which part of this mammoth and diverse continent in casting such woe upon you, is it:

ALBANIA

GREECE

RUSSIA

ANDORRA

HUNGARY

ROMANIA

AUSTRIA

ICELAND

SAN MARINO

BELGIUM

IRELAND

SCOTLAND

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA

ITALY

SERBIA

BELARUS

LATVIA

SLOVAKIA

BULGARIA

LIECHTENSTEIN

SLOVENIA

CZECH REPUBLIC

LUXEMBOURG

TURKEY

CROATIA

LITHUANIA

SWEDEN

CYPRUS

MALTA

SWITZERLAND

DENMARK

MONACO

SPAIN

ESTONIA

MOLDOVA

UKRAINE

FINLAND

NETHERLANDS

UNITED KINGDOM

FRANCE

NORWAY

REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

GERMANY

POLAND

MONTENEGRO

Grossly irresponsible use of the phrase "under attack" by the way...

Answer 7

Why was there no drive to prevent Miller Beer from being bought by a foreign country business ?  

There are NO loyalties to a country or employees (at all levels) in any business; individual, alliances,partnerships,mergers, unless the profit and loss goes into the red or enough people boycott due to negative publicity.  This is why manufacturing and service jobs are being outsourcing/offshoring.

Enough jobs have been outsourced/offshored transforming the USA into a service provider than manufacturer.  Real wealth is in production.  Also this has internally weakened the nation since few wages are keeping up with the cost of living thus the recession.  Need proof that to verify my opinion ?   The stimilus checks from the IRS, help for those behind mortgage payments,helping companies from the finance sector,and too numerous to write.

Why did they get rid if Michelob Dark ?