Berkshire Hathaway & Buffett, The True Anheuser-Busch Winners (BRK.A, BRK.B, BUD)

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Everyone has reported on the huge acquisition offer from InBev for Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. (NYSE: BUD).  What is interesting above and beyond the global beer initiatives and consolidation is that Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) owns a fairly massive slug of the company stock.  As Budweiser is an easy brand to recognize it easily fits within Buffett’s "hold forever" strategy.

According to the most recent filings, Warren Buffett’s holding and operating company owns a combined amount of 35,563,200 shares as of March 31, 2008, which is roughly a 4.99% stake.

With a $62.00 share price this morning this represents a stake worth some $2.2 Billion.  That ought to allow Buffett and friends to recapture some cash to either make more acquisitions or to add to the cash arsenal for future deals.

You can see the full list of Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway holdings.

This was one of our "brands that could disappear" as far as US ownership is concerned.  Recently we ran "Top US Brands Foreigners Could Buy With Cheap Dollars (SKS, HSY, WFMI, STZ, BUD, ETFC, S, LEAP, X, AA, LAMR)" which you can see.

Jon C. Ogg
June 12, 2008

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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