- CEO
- Michel Dimitrios Doukeris
- Full Time Employees
- 136,805
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Beverages: alcoholic
- Address
- Brouwerijplein 1 Leuven BU Belgium 3000
- IPO Date
- Oct 4, 2016
- Business
- Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV produces, markets, distributes, and sells beer, alcoholic beverages, and non-alcoholic drinks worldwide. Tracing its brewing heritage to 1366 with the establishment of the Den Hoorn brewery in Leuven, Belgium, and corporate lineage to the 1852 founding of the Bavarian Brewery (later Anheuser-Busch) in St. Louis, Missouri, the contemporary multinational enterprise was established through the 2008 combination of InBev and Anheuser-Busch, followed by the acquisition of SABMiller in 2016. The company is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, and maintains its primary equity listing on Euronext Brussels under ticker ABI, with American Depositary Receipts listed on the New York Stock Exchange and secondary listings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the Mexican Stock Exchange.
The company manages its global operations through six main business segments: North America, Middle Americas, South America, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific, and Global Export and Holding Companies. Its commercial and production footprint extends across more than 150 countries, supported by an extensive network of breweries, malting sites, agricultural facilities, and packaging plants. Operations are conducted directly and via major publicly traded and regional operating subsidiaries, including Ambev S.A. in Latin America, Budweiser Brewing Company APAC Limited in the Asia-Pacific region, Grupo Modelo in Mexico, and Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC in the United States. The company distributes its products to wholesalers, retail grocers, convenience chains, e-commerce channels, bars, restaurants, and hospitality venues.
The company's core product and service portfolio comprises: global flagship beer brands, including Budweiser, Stella Artois, and Corona; multi-country international beer brands, consisting of Beck's, Leffe, Hoegaarden, and Michelob ULTRA; local champion beer brands tailored to individual regional markets, such as Brahma, Skol, and Antarctica in Brazil, Modelo Especial and Victoria in Mexico, Harbin and Sedrin in China, Cass and Hanmac in South Korea, Carling Black Label and Castle Lager in South Africa, Quilmes in Argentina, Jupiler in Belgium, and Aguila in Colombia; non-alcoholic and low-alcohol beverages, featuring Corona Cero, Budweiser Zero, Stella Artois 0.0, Hoegaarden 0.0, and regional soft drinks and malt tonics; Beyond Beer and ready-to-drink (RTD) alcoholic beverages, comprising canned spirits cocktails, flavored malt beverages, and hard seltzers under brands such as Cutwater Spirits, Nütrl Vodka Seltzer, BeatBox Beverages, and Mike's Hard Lemonade; proprietary digital business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platforms, notably the BEES digital ecosystem, which provides ordering, logistics tracking, and third-party marketplace services for millions of small-to-medium retail merchants; and direct-to-consumer (D2C) beverage delivery platforms, including digital fulfillment networks Ze Delivery in Brazil and TaDa Delivery across Latin America.
In recent operational and corporate developments, Anheuser-Busch InBev has expanded its core global commercial partnerships and realigned its asset base to drive premiumization, digital marketplace expansion, and portfolio diversification. The company secured a major global partnership with the International Olympic Committee as a Worldwide Olympic Partner through 2028, highlighting its zero-alcohol brand Corona Cero across the Olympic and Paralympic Games, while expanding its global sponsorship and exclusive pouring agreements with FIFA for the FIFA World Cup 2026 and the International Cricket Council for global tournaments. In portfolio management, the company expanded its Beyond Beer segment through the strategic acquisition of ready-to-drink brand BeatBox Beverages, complementing previous divestitures of select non-core regional craft brewing assets to Tilray Brands to optimize marketing allocation around key megabrands. Operationally, the company repurchased equity stakes in several U.S. metal container and can-manufacturing facilities to reassert direct operational control over its packaging supply chain and mitigate cost volatility. In digital infrastructure, the company expanded the gross merchandise value and merchant adoption of its BEES platform by scaling third-party marketplace offerings. Financially and structurally, AB InBev executed targeted multi-billion-dollar debt paydowns and share buyback programs to strengthen its investment-grade capital structure, alongside executive leadership transitions across its North American zone to reinforce commercial execution, retail shelf distribution, and brand recovery initiatives.