Budweisers ägare får böter på 2,2 miljarder från EU
Världens största öltillverkare Anheuser-Busch Inbev ska betala böter på 200 miljoner euro, motsvarande 2,2 miljarder kronor. Det har EU-kommissionen fastslagit.
Skälet är att bolaget har förhindrat billigare import av bolagets märke Jupiler från Nederländerna till Belgien.
– Konsumenterna i Belgien har betalat mer för sin favoritöl på grund av Anheuser-Busch Inbevs avsiktliga strategi att begränsa gränsöverskridande försäljning mellan Nederländerna och Belgien, säger EU-kommissionären Margrethe Vestager i ett pressmeddelande.
Bland bolagets mer kända ölmärken finns Budweiser, Corona och Stella Artois.
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Wikipedia (en)
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (abbreviated as AB InBev) is a multinational drink and brewing holdings company based in Leuven, Belgium. Additional main offices are located in São Paulo, New York City, London, St. Louis, Mexico City, Bremen, Johannesburg and others. The company was enlarged in October 2016 when AB InBev purchased SABMiller and concluded a merger of the two entities. It has been the world's largest brewer even before the acquisition of SABMiller and is considered one of the largest fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies in the world. The annual sales for the company in 2018 were US$54.6 billion; prior to the merger, ABInBev had realized US$45.5 billion in revenue in 2016. The company is expected to have a 28 percent market share of global volume beer sales in 2017, according to Euromonitor International.AB InBev was formed through InBev (itself a merger between Interbrew from Belgium and AmBev from Brazil) acquiring Anheuser-Busch from the United States. In October 2015, Anheuser-Busch InBev announced a successful all-cash bid to acquire multinational competitor SABMiller for £69 billion (US$107 billion). Shareholders for both companies approved the merger on 28 September 2016. The deal closed on 10 October 2016. The new entity has approximately 500 beer brands in over 100 countries.SABMiller ceased trading on global stock markets. The company subsequently sold the former SABMiller's interest in MillerCoors to Molson Coors, sold many of the former SABMiller's European brands to Asahi Breweries and sold much of its Coca-Cola bottling and distribution interests to the Coca-Cola Company.Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV is a publicly listed company, with its primary listing on the Euronext Brussels. It has secondary listings on Mexican Stock Exchange, Johannesburg Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange.
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