American Icon Goes Abroad: Farewell to the "King of Beers" (STL Post Dispatch & NYT)

From The St. Louis Post Dispatch & The New York Times:

Anheuser-Busch has agreed to sell itself to the Belgian brewer InBev for about $52 billion, the two companies confirmed Monday in a joint release, putting control of the nation’s largest beer maker and a fixture of American culture into a European rival’s hands.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/story/41A0370FA33CF543862574860015569F?OpenDocument

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/business/worldbusiness/15beer.html?hp