Financial investor bought the Borsod Brewery

By: trademagazin Date: 2009. 10. 16. 00:03

World's largest brewery, the Anheuser-Busch InBev sells its subsidiaries in Central Europe and the Balkans – including Borsodi Brewery. The buyer is the CVC Capital Partners venture capital firm, which owns the commercial rights of Formula 1.

The purchase price is 1.62 billion USD in cash, in addition with bonds and minority shares 2.23 billion USD – reports Wall Street Journal.
Anheuser-Busch, InBev has already announced, that it will discard some business branches.
The AB InBev sells some factories, because they finances the company's post-merger this way: InBev payed 52 billion dollars last summer for the U.S. Anheuser-Busch company and has collected 7 billion USD with the selling of its South Korean, Chinese, Scottish and Irish subsidiaries.
The buyer is the financial investor CVC group, which has interests in the food industry, the property business and the shoe industry and owns the commercial rights of Formula 1 – reports Origo.




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