..Qualcuno, per favore conosce rating ed altro info su questa birreria?
E' la Stella Artois-Beck's che due mesi fa si è bevuta la Budweiser-Michelob

diventando il più grosso produttore di birra del mondo (tra gli altri marchi Leffe, Jupiler,
Brahma, Löwenbräu, Labatt, Tennent's, Bass, più una partecipazione del 50% in Corona).
Il rating è Baa2 per Moody's e BBB+ per Standard & Poor's
L'emissione è multi-tranche:
Anheuser-Busch InBev -- 1.35 billion euros and GBP 550 million multitranche bond issue was priced through joint-lead managers Barclays PLC, BNP Paribas SA, Deutsche Bank AG, and Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, one of the banks running the deal said Wednesday. Terms: Tranche 1: amount: 750 million euros; maturity: Jan. 30, 2013; coupon: 7.375%; reoffer: 99.662; spread: 475 basis points more than mid-swaps. Tranche 2: amount: 600 million euros; maturity: Jan. 30, 2017; coupon: 8.625%; reoffer: 99.614; spread: 537.5 basis points more than mid-swaps. Tranche 3: amount: GBP 550 million; maturity: July. 30, 2024; coupon: 9.75%; reoffer: 99.272; spread: 525 basis points more than U.K. gilts.
ABInBev sells down stake in Tsingtao to Asahi
venerdì 23 gennaio 2009 18:22
LONDON (Reuters) - Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's biggest brewer, sold most of its stake in Tsingtao Breweries of China to Japan's Asahi Breweries, in a $667 million deal that will help cut its multi-billion dollar debt pile.
Belgium-based InBev bought U.S. rival Anheuser for $52 billion in cash last November and has been looking at disposals to cut its debt. Anheuser's near 27 percent stake in Tsingtao (0168.HK:
Quotazione) (600600.SS:
Quotazione) was seen by analysts as likely to be sold off along with other assets.
Under the deal, Asahi Breweries (2501.T:
Quotazione) will take a 19.9 percent stake in Tsingtao, while ABInBev (INTB.BR:
Quotazione) will keep 7 percent.
The brewer of Budweiser, Stella Artois and Beck's is looking to pay down a $45 billion loan it took to buy Anheuser. Analysts say it may also look to sell Anheuser's U.S. theme parks and packaging operations, and InBev's Korean and German beer businesses.
Goldman Sachs analysts said the stake sale was a "small positive" for ABInBev, but warned it would be harder to get favorable valuations for the other businesses.
"Tsingtao is one of the easiest assets to dispose of given the strategic value for any buyer," they wrote in a note to clients.
The deal values Tsingtao at 14 times estimated 2008 earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), against a three-year sector average of 12.3 times, they said.
ABInBev said proceeds will be used to repay debt resulting from its Anheuser acquisition and it expects the transaction to be completed by the end of the first quarter. It has no current plans to sell additional shares in Tsingtao.
Japanese brewers Asahi and major rival Kirin Holdings Co (2503.T:
Quotazione) have been looking to snap up overseas assets to grow outside their mature domestic beer market, which has contracted by 15 percent in volumes terms over the past decade.
Asahi and Tsingtao have already worked together for more than a decade, setting up a joint venture, Shenzhen Tsingtao Beer Asahi Co., Ltd., in 1997.
Last month, Asahi agreed to buy Cadbury's (CBRY.L:
Quotazione) Australian soft drinks business for $811 million, while earlier this week Kirin said it would buy a 43 percent stake in the beer unit of Philippine conglomerate San Miguel Corp (SMC.PS:
Quotazione), in a deal that could cost over $1.26 billion.
ABInBev shares rose 6.1 percent to 18.50 euros by 1600 GMT. They hit a five-year low of 9.96 euros last November when worries about how the brewer would pay for Anheuser were at their height.
Asahi was advised by Nomura on the deal. ABInBev was advised by Lazard, BNP Paribas and ING.