Reprise from spring 2008 - When The King of Beers became Belgian owned, we all paused…
Like Labatts and Brahma Beer before her, Stellaaaa’s! (Artois that is) parent company In-Bev got thirsty and gulped down St. Louis, Missouri based Budweiser Beer in one chug for a cool $52 billion dollars. Ouch.
Long the butt of Dutch jokes [...]
Budweiser, Leuven Belgium
Posted on 21 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: ABN-AMRO, Belgians, Brahma Beer, Bud logo, Budweiser, Carl Icahn, CEO of Yahoo!, Champion's League, Cobra, Czech Bud, Dannon yogurt, Danone in France, Dutch-British consortium, Flanders' Field, flex global financial muscles, Fortis Group, Giant Supermarket, Grolsch, Guinness, Heineken, Holland's biggest bank, In-Bev St Louis, Jerry Yang, Labatts, Microsoft, Mutual of Omaha, Oklahoma vs. Texas style), owned by ING Group, Royal Ahold, Shell, St. Louis, Stella Artois, The Netherlands, upset, walked away from $46.5 billion dollars, Washington
Fire the Manager?
Posted on 29 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Anfield Road, Avram Grant, Barca, Barcelona, Billl Martin, Boston Red Sox, Champion's League, Chelsea, Dallas Mavericks, entrepreneurs, European Cup, fines, Frank Rijkaard, Frontieri, George Gillet, instant gratification, Joe Torre, Jose Mourinho, Liverpool, Manchester City, Mark Cuban, Miami Heat, nba, New York Yankees, Pat Riley, Pittsburgh Steelers, Premier League, Rafa Benitez, Ronaldinho, Rooney, St. Louis Rams, Steinbrenner, Sven-Goran Eriksson, Tom Hicks, Yawkey
(Reprise article)
Sven-Goran Eriksson can’t catch a break, fired after leading the England national team to a decent record but no silverware and now a top-10 finish with Premier League team Manchester City, improving them dramatically, is not enough.
Frank Rijkaard is in trouble in Barcelona after making it to the European Cup semi-final and losing by [...]
When Football and Politics Collide
Posted on 01 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Alexander Litvinenko, Champion's League, charter flights, Chelsea, diplomatic row, dissident, English football, government, hotel, KGB, Liverpool, London, Moscow, Russia, tickets, visas
What a night.
Chelsea stunned Liverpool in extra time with two goals to win their place in the Champions League Cup finale and the night before Manchester United’s amazing 25-metre screamer by Paul Scholes into the top right hand corner of the net early in the first half was enough after 90 nail biting minutes to [...]






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