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 [...]
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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
16-Days of Oranje Celebration
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The Dutch know how to throw a party. In 2000 in Sydney, the hottest Olympic ticket was not to the Opening or Closing Ceremonies. It was to Holland House beside Sydney Harbour where the parties were so festive and long that athletes from other countries clamoured to join in and one eventually had to produce [...]
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