Why do numerous Americans bash budweiser for selling out to InBev?

Question

Why do numerous Americans bash budweiser for selling out to InBev?

Answer 1

I don't.  They didn't have a choice really.  The stock was pushed well over it's historic high and it would have been negligent on the board of directors part to not let the deal go through. Like it or not it is their first obligation to maximize shareholder profits. The only way the stock would have hit 70/share is if they we able  to successfully market it globally and they had little success in this area under current management. It was in the shareholder's best interest and would have happened even if inbev had to do it by hostile takeover. The Busch family actually sold the company and made their fortune years ago when it went public. It's actually been for sale ever since and the weak dollar is what truly made this happen.

Answer 2

One thing I do love about the deal is that Anheuser-Busch muscled their way into a better deal. InBev came in with a cheap low bid and A-B rejected it. InBev then moved to have Anheuser-Busch's board removed. Again Anheuser-Busch filed a law suit of anti-trust law and unfair practices. Not only would have A-B won that saving  itself but also  potentially blocking InBev from being able to purchase any businesses in the USA in the future. InBev seeing they were out played decided to deal and gave the A-B board and its shareholders a huge bid. Done deal. Nicely played A-B. American win again. Look for the A-B people to control the board of Anheuser-Busch InBev.

Mike T

If you think Stella is vastly superior to Budweiser you do not know beer. Stella is at best slightly more flavorful than bud. In fact it is the Budweiser of Belgium. To make a blanket statement that Belgians make better beer than Americans is very foolish and shows again you do not know beer or the brewing industry.

Answer 3

Bud got their beer making skills from Europe, now Europe is gonna get them skills back.

Answer 4

I really don't care, it's not like they can make the beer any worse

Answer 5

because it RIDICULOUS. im from st. louis and our city is going to s**+*!!!! the anheuser bush headquarters was all we had left!!!!!! if you were from st. louis maybe you would understand. ive never even met ANYONE from st. louis who drinks that beck ****. its bud all the way. i practically freaking grew up in the brewery. a bunch of my family worked there and i went there every summer. it was the highlight of st. louis and now we have NOTHING.

Answer 6

I don't.  The offer was too good.  

It is sad to see a world recognized American company go down to a foreign group, however.  And I don't even like Bud.

It would be like John Deere selling out to Fiat.

Answer 7

Because they waved the American flag but did not back that stance. People do not like change. I agree it hurts because it is a shamethis global c**p. I do however, thick it funny when the big brewers buy out some of these brewers such as Sam Adams or another big brewer. These same people will be laughing at the false beer gods.

Now we must listen to these pseudo-beer experts (false beer gods) falsely preaching their superior judgments about beer.

Answer 8

I think it is fitting

Sissy beer should be made by sissies

Answer 9

There's only so many great American icons left and when Bud sold out, I was hurt deeply. Why does everything have to be global? It doesn't! I don't care if anyone outside this great country of ours has any of our beer, let them make their own and keep it there. If someone wants imports, export themselves to another country and drink their beer and leave the rest of us alone and quit ruining the country for everyone else!!!!! Global beer, global phones, global trading, blah, blah, blah, how about global my big ole butt..........There's enough country here that I won't see it all before I die, so to heck with the foreign people who want to own American stuff, we need our stuff and not their c**p by GOD.........Sorry, ummm you ask!

Answer 10

Because like Bud or not, it's an American Icon. Like Harley or Chevrolet or Chrysler.  What if they sold Chrysler to Daimler?  Oh wait, they did that, and we see how that turned out.  Most folks didn't want a Dodge truck with Mercedes running gear.  Daimler got smart and let Chrysler be Chrysler again.  I expect the same thing will happen with InBev.  Just because they own Budweiser, doesn't mean the same folks will continue to buy it.  I don't like Bud anyway, but if I ever was going to drink it, I sure won't now.  I say let InBev have it...and none of us buy it.  See where that will get them, owning one of the world's most recognizable brands or beer, and can't sell it in the US.  Maybe they won't care, maybe they can sell enough of it overseas.  But I doubt it.

Answer 11

Because the U.S. is losing to much business to overseas company's.  Most of everything we consume, is from other country's.  How can our economy survive, if foreign company's own just about all of the so-called Amercian Company's?

Answer 12

The red, white and blue belonging to a company from Norway?  That can't be good.  Inbev has a history of buying companies and immediately cutting costs drastically.  That makes a mediocre beer worse.  I won't be drinking Bud anymore.

Answer 13

I wonder how many thumb downs I'm going to get for this?

Because most Americans are sheep and they feel that it is what they should be doing.

Same reason so many Americans drink Bud products in the first place. Somebody told them it tasted good, so they fell into line behind them and started drinking it.

If people were truly concerned about buying American they would only buy local. Supporting microbreweries closest to them that employ their neighbors and pay taxes in their communities. That would be truly American.

Answer 14

Because there are numerous stupid Americans....

I'm not one to bash America, I'm typically hugely patriotic, but come on!

Bud tastes like p**s.  I couldn't care less if InBev buys it out.  No one is losing their jobs, InBev is keeping the factories.  People are just bitching to *****.  It's all flag-waving bullcrap.

Stella Artois is vastly superior to Bud.  So if Budweiser starts tasting better, than I'm all for this purchase.

And to anyone saying that people should export themselves if they wanted imported beer... thats ridiculous!  There are thousands of foreign products that we rely on because those foreign countries do it better than us.  Electronics for example.  So if Belgians make better beer (which they absolutely do) then why shouldn't we drink Belgian beer?

But if people are going to be stubborn about drinking American beer, they can at least drink good US micro-brews.... Rogue, Allagash, Sweetwater, Terrapin

Answer 15

I'm just upset that Anheiser Busch sold  The  Cardinals.  But People  are upset because  they don't like  Ale they'd rather have Budweiser. Like We can't adapt to Miller I suppose? Oh there are also a bunch of Communists who don't  like Inbev because they have a better business..

Answer 16

Because Budweiser is as American as apple pie and baseball. Now we have to sit back and wonder what other

American companies are going to fall apart because of the ever changing economy.