| Any way you slice it, a combination of Anheuser-Busch InBev NV and SABMiller Plc would mean the big get bigger. The two companies are by far the largest players in the industry by almost every metric. Market share is the first one that jumps to mind for many merger arbitrageurs who wonder how such a deal would fare with antitrust regulators.
Combined, the two companies would control almost 30 percent of the global beer market. To put that in perspective, OPEC controls about 41 percent of the world oil market...............................................Full Article: Source
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