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	AmBev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		AmBev is the biggest private industry of consumer goods in Brazil and the biggest brewery in Latin America.
		With a strategy of growth based on the principles of prescriptive management, AmBev continuously strives to be cost-efficient.
		AmBev operates in almost all Latin America through business operations in (Venezuela, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Dominican Republic) and through its association with the Quilmes (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Chile), in which its participation is 92% today.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/AmBev (285 words)

	AmBev - Companhia de Bebidas das Américas
		AmBev is the largest private industry of consumer goods in Brazil and the largest brewer in the Latin America.
		AmBev, holder of the largest portfolio in the country in the beverage industry, has been consolidating the share of its brands in the Brazilian beer market.
		AmBev operates in almost the entire Latin America via own operations (Venezuela, Guatemala, Peru, Equator, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Dominican Republic) and through association with Quilmes (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Chile), in which it currently holds a 55% stake.
	www.ambev.com.br /eng/emp_01_en.htm (290 words)

	Guarana News
		AmBev said in a statement that it hoped to sell one million litres of the drink in 2002 and win 1 percent of Puerto Rico's small 480 million litre market within 10 years.
		AmBev chose Portugal for the launch because of the close cultural connections and the insistence of PepsiCo Inc. and Sumolis, who will bottle and distribute the drink.
		Ambev, or Companhia de Bebidas das Américas, is the result of a recent merger between the two largest Brazilian drinks manufacturers, Brahma and Antarctica.
	www.guarana.com /news.html (1799 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Interbrew, AmBev shake up beer industry with $11.4 billion combination
		AmBev's Brazilian shares were mixed, with the voting shares soaring 7 percent and nonvoting shares plunging 16 percent.
		AmBev will issue 9.5 billion AmBev common shares and 13.8 billion preferred shares to Interbrew and assume debt of $1.5 billion in exchange for Labatt, including its 30 percent interest in Femsa Cerveza SA de CV and its 70 percent interest in Labatt USA.
		AmBev's efforts to portray the deal as an equal partnership with Interbrew will make the deal more palatable for Brazilian politicians and regulators, who are sensitive to foreign companies taking over successful domestic businesses, said David Fleischer, a political science professor at the University of Brasilia.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20040303-1356-interbrew-ambev.html (901 words)

	InBev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		InBev was formed from a 2004 transaction involving the Belgian company Interbrew and the Brazilian company AmBev.
		Ambev was a Brazilian beer company formed by a merger in 1999 between the Brahma and Antarctica breweries.
		The UK television advertising campaigns have included references to the film Jean de Florette, and have used movie directors such as Jonathan Glazer, to portray a sophisticated European culture somewhat belied by the popular conception of the beer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inbev (531 words)

	Boston.com / Business / Interbrew to take stake in Brazil's AmBev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		AmBev will issue 9.5 billion AmBev ordinary shares and 13.8 billion preferred shares to Interbrew and assume debt of $1.5 billion in exchange for Interbrew's wholly owned Canadian subsidiary Labatt, including its 30 percent interest in Femsa Cerveza SA de CV and its 70 percent interest in Labatt USA.
		AmBev has a presence in every Latin American country except Colombia and Mexico, and it sells two-thirds of the beer in Brazil's massive 2.1 billion gallon market.
		AmBev's Brazilian shares fell more than 6 percent Tuesday amid speculation the deal would not be a merger, after rising more than 4 percent Monday amid thoughts it would.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/03/03/interbrew_to_take_stake_in_brazils_ambev (700 words)

	Boston.com / Business / Interbrew, AmBev make biggest brewer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Belgium's Interbrew SA and Brazil's AmBev completed their $11.4 billion combination Friday after shareholders of both companies approved the deal that creates the world's largest brewer by volume.
		AmBev said its shareholders also approved the union, but did not provide a vote breakdown on the margin of victory.
		AmBev recently expanded into the Caribbean and sells two-thirds of the beer in Brazil's 2.1 billion gallon market, the world's fourth largest.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/08/27/interbrew_ambev_make_biggest_brewer (592 words)

	ABV.C Key Developments: Investing - MSN Money
		AmBev ordinary shares are currently held by three groups of stockholders: Braco S.A., Fundacao Antonio e Helena Zerrenner and the outstanding public shareholders of AmBev.
		AmBev will issue 9.5 billion AmBev ordinary shares and 13.8 billion preferred shares to Interbrew and assume debt of $1.5 billion in exchange for Interbrew's wholly owned Canadian subsidiary Labatt, including its 30% interest in Femsa Cerveza SA de CV and its 70% interest in Labatt USA.
		AmBev announced that it is negotiating a possible world-wide transaction with Interbrew S.A. Under the current discussions, it is intended that AmBev be maintained as a publicly traded company, having its shares traded in Brazil and abroad.
	news.moneycentral.msn.com /ticker/sigdev.asp?Symbol=ABV.C (476 words)

	AmBev - Companhia de Bebidas das Américas
		During the MBA, students will be able to have a systematic view of AmBev and the opportunity to compare our processes, results and policies with those of the best companies in Brazil and throughout the world.
		It is a one-year course divided into 10 units, with classes at every 30 days, with one of the units being taught abroad, where students will have the opportunity to do benchmark by visiting leading companies in their industries.
		AmBev encourages meritocracy, that is, we reward those employees who stand out.
	www.ambev.com.br /eng/tra_01_en.htm (373 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- Interbrew and AmBev expected announce terms of alliance Wednesday
		AmBev co-chairman Victorio de Marchi confirmed Tuesday that the companies were poised to release terms of the deal – but did not give specifics.
		AmBev would take over Interbrew's Labatt brand in Canada and the United States as well as the company's operations in Cuba and its 30 percent stake in Mexican brewer Femsa Cerveza, the Brazilian financial daily Valor Economico reported Tuesday.
		AmBev – whose full name in Portuguese is Companhia de Bebidas das Americas, or American Beverage Co. – was created in 2000 by the merger of Brazilian brewing giants Antarctica Paulista and Brahma.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20040302-1439-ambev-interbrew.html (650 words)

	TED Case Study Template
		Ambev has countered with the fact that they are the “originally from Brazil” and that they buy their guarana from small farmers who have been harvesting the berry for years.
		Ambev launched an investment plan of R$61 million in diverse projects in the Maues region and created 12 development poles to offer assistance to the rural communities and to finance the expansion of guarana farming.
		Ambev’s annual sales total around 800 million liters and its Guarana brand is one of the 15 most consumed soft drinks around the world.
	www.american.edu /ted/guarana.htm (3143 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Latin America
		Ambev, which is being acquired by Interbrew SA, can't open the $40 million plant while courts weigh allegations the brewery will cause environmental damage, Juan Vergara, head of AmBev's international operations, said in an interview in Lima.
		AmBev, seeking to diversify revenue outside its home market of Brazil, where it accounts for two-thirds of beer sales, is expanding across Central and South America, seeking to take sales from established brewers with almost total control of their markets.
		AmBev preferred shares were unchanged yesterday, closing at 525 reais, a 29 percent decline in 2004 compared to a 16 percent decline by the benchmark Bovespa stock index.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=ajmwdk8Nh4iA&refer=latin_america (700 words)

	Forbes.com: Brazil AmBev seen posting lower profit, beer sales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Companhia de Bebidas das Americas (AmBev) is expected to publish a first-quarter net profit of about 351 million reais ($112 million), according to the average of six analyst forecasts collected by Reuters.
		AmBev held a 69.4 percent stake of the Brazilian beer market share at the end of March, 2003.
		AmBev is in the process of becoming the Americas wing of InterbrewAmbev, the world's largest brewer in terms of volume, after Belgium's Interbrew bought a majority stake in the Brazilian company in March in an $11.5 billion deal.
	www.forbes.com /reuters/newswire/2004/05/10/rtr1366354.html (714 words)

	04/15/00 -- Brazil Jungle Berry Drink Targets the World
		AmBev officials say upping the guarana content in the drink would make it too strong for kids so it is made with a mix of other citrus fruits to give it a fruity, natural flavor.
		AmBev officials are hopeful they can not only capture more of the domestic market but take the world by storm with the company's newfound post-merger clout as Brazil's first home-grown multinational.
		AmBev's bottles are emerald green but it hopes to stun the world in the same way, using a heavy dose of the tropical, medicinal and ecological appeal of the guarana berry used to make the soda pop.
	forests.org /archive/brazil/brjungbe.htm (1114 words)

	Brazil's AmBev Posts Surprise Profit Drop
		Companhia de Bebidas das Americas (AmBev) said it made a net profit of 131.7 million reais ($46 million), compared with a net profit of 340.4 million reais in the third quarter of 2003.
		AmBev accounted for 332.7 million reais in other operational costs in the quarter, compared with a gain of 5.4 million reais in the item last year, reports Reuters News.
		But the brewer said Brazilian beer volume sales, the source of the lion's share of its revenue, were 17.1 percent higher than in the third quarter of 2003 as it won back market share and the country's economy recovered.
	www.progressivegrocer.com /progressivegrocer/profitguides/beer/v2/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000717084 (651 words)

	Business Week Online: Personal Investing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		AmBev's operations in the North America contributed with Brazilian Real 1,558.8 million to the company's consolidated revenues, which represents a result generated between Aug. 27 and Dec. 31, 2004.
		According to the company, 2004 was particularly notable for AmBev as the year it established a major foothold in North America (Aug. 27, 2004).
		AmBev and Belgium's Interbrew (now InBev) concluded a a strategic alliance that included the merger of Labatt as a wholly owned AmBev franchise.
	research.businessweek.com /business_summary.asp?Symbol=abv (269 words)

	AmBev posts domestic drop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		AmBev, the giant South American brewing group, has confirmed its initial estimates of a decline in Brazilian beer sales for the third quarter.
		AmBev, which also makes soft drinks and bottled water, is the fifth biggest brewer in the world.
		AmBev recently sold its operations in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay to Argentinian rival Quilmes.
	www.nutraingredients.com /news/printNewsBis.asp?id=10534 (231 words)

	Ambev Companhia de Bebidas das Americas News
		SAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazil's AmBev, Latin America's largest brewer, is expected to post a near 70 percent jump in quarterly profit on Thursday thanks to a cost-cutting drive in Canada and steady growth in...
		Brazil's AmBev, Latin America's largest brewer, is expected to report that earnings nearly tripled in the third quarter as robust beer sales helped offset a foreign exchange impact.
		Companhia de Bebidas das Americas (AmBev), Latin America's leading brewer, said today that it would not be subject to an investigation by the corporate relations department of the Brazilian security exchange...
	www.topix.net /com/abv (747 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		AmBev has a 1070 hectare plantation in Maués, Amazonia called Santan Helena that is specifically designed for seed cultivation and research.
		AmBev studies the guaraná at Santa Helena in order to “ find out which is the best type of soil, the best practice for pest control, the best parallel crop, etc.” (AmBev.com.br 2004).
		The consumers of these drinks have a lot of choices when it comes to energy drinks but separating oneself from the others by explicitly advertising where their products are coming from and the traditions involved with it might be a refreshing change that consumers would like.
	www.stanford.edu /class/anthsci11sc/paperkimi.htm (2512 words)

	Interbrew/AmBev merger complete; creates new #1 brewer Modern Brewery Age - Find Articles
		AP -- Belgium's Interbrew SA and Brazil's AmBev completed their planned euro9.4 billion (US$11.4 billion) combination last week after shareholders of both companies approved the deal that creates the world's largest brewer by volume.
		Interbrew shareholders unanimously approved the linkup of their family company with AmBev, whose full name is Companhia da Bebidas das Americas, creating a new company called InBev that will control about 14 percent of the global beer market.
		AmBev said its shareholders also approved the union, but did not provide a vote breakdown on the margin of victory for the merger.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3469/is_36_55/ai_n6211903 (402 words)

	Fool.com: No AmBev for Bud [Motley Fool Take] March 3, 2004
		AmBev gets Interbrew's assets in North America: a wholly owned Labatt Canadian subsidiary, a 70% interest in Labatt USA, and a 30% stake in Mexican brewer Femsa.
		AmBev will also control operations in both North America and Latin America.
		AmBev will retain its headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and will have co-CEOs, one for North America and one for Latin America.
	www.fool.com /News/mft/2004/mft04030319.htm?ref=foolwatch (301 words)

	Belgian Brewer Acquires a Taste for Brazilian Frugality - New York Times
		But AmBev's influence in last year's deal that created InBev is less about the effortless flair of Brazilian dance, style and soccer and more about the unglamorous task of cutting costs.
		AmBev, on the other hand, which still functions under its old name and has its shares listed on the Brazilian stock exchange, is known in the beer industry for being obsessive about efficiency.
		AmBev managers have been moved into major positions at InBev's headquarters in Leuven, including Felipe Dutra, AmBev's top financial manager, as InBev's chief financial officer, and Juan Vergara, AmBev's head of Latin American operations, as head of purchasing for InBev.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/09/27/business/worldbusiness/27beer.html?ex=1285473600&en=b0ce4b6b5cb55bbd&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1028 words)

	AmBev raises funds for debts
		AmBev's operating subsidiary Companhia Brasileira de Bebidas (CBB) will place $500 million (568 million euros) in fixed-rate notes that it said would be insured against ``political risk'', a term analysts reckoned meant the company would include guarantees that would secure it better interest rates.
		AmBev added in a statement that the ``tenor'' of the issue would depend on market conditions.
		The news deflated some expectations that AmBev was gearing up to make a big acquisition abroad after it announced on Friday that its board had approved a debt issue of up to $1 billion (1.14 billion euros) with an average maturity of up to 10 years.
	www.foodnavigator.com /news/printNewsBis.asp?id=42352 (251 words)

	AMERICAN BEVERAGE CO AMBEV - ABV Report of Foreign Issuer (6-K) FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
		AmBev's Brazilian foreign currency debt exposure remains fully protected by hedging transactions, which involve investments in U.S. dollar-linked assets, as well as the use of swaps and derivatives instruments.
		AmBev's foreign currency debt is comprised, primarily, by 10-year Bonds issued in 2001 and 2003 and the Syndicated Loan.
		AmBev announced on May 25, 2004, that its Board of Directors approved in the previous day a share buyback program, valid for a period of 365 days.
	sec.edgar-online.com /2004/08/12/0001292814-04-000223/section2.asp (6054 words)

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