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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 01:15 AM Original message |
Why would a successful company allow itself to be bought by a bigger one? |
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mrreowwr_kittty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
1. I thought beer sales went up in hard economic times. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 01:23 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. So, to avoid paying American taxes!? |
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MrModerate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
3. Many (maybe most) shareholders don't really care what the company . . . |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 01:28 AM Response to Original message |
4. Aside from the general business101 question.... Hops have been crazyexpensive for awhile now.... |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 01:33 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. So, where did InBev get so much money? |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 01:40 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I'm just guessing, but I would expect hops to cost more, the farther from the source you go. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 01:48 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. True, I just assumed AB... |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 01:28 AM Response to Original message |
5. Money. It's always the money. Even when I don't understand it, it's always the money. nt |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
8. Stockholders are made an offer they can't refuse. |
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rwenos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 02:44 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Usually There's A Premium on the Stock Price |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 04:18 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Correct. The takeover target's by-laws define the % of ownership needed for control. |
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Jim Lane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 03:29 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. The "human agendas" of the officers and board members can cut the other way |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 04:11 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. You are correct. |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 01:48 AM Response to Original message |
9. Maybe Anheuser-Busch isn't doing as well as people believe |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 04:20 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. The advance of the Euro against the US dollar. |
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Captain Angry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 01:52 AM Response to Original message |
11. The dollar is so weak, this is an investment that InBev can't turn down. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 04:10 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Ah-ha! |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
18. Several Reasons: |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 09:27 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. InBev is based in Belgium, not Brazil. |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 10:51 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Thank You for the Correction |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-27-08 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
21. Because management typically has big stock options they can cash out on takeover |
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