Julie MacIntosh
Autor(a) de Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon
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Julie MacIntosh, an award-winning financial journalist, led the Financial Times's coverage of the takeover of Anheuser-Busch as its U.S. Mergers and Acquisitions Correspondent. She also covered the near-collapse of the global banking system while on the mergers beat and, before that, wrote for the mostrar mais newspaper's influential "Lex" column. Prior to joining the Financial Times, she spent six years as a reporter and correspondent for Reuters and, in 2003, was named one of NewsBios's "Top 30 Business Journalists Under 30." She regularly appears on CNBC and MSNBC. mostrar menos
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Interesting analysis of the takeover of Anheuser-Busch by Brazilian brewer ImBev in 2008. The author makes it pretty clear that a lot of what drove the failure of A-B to stay independent was the fecklessness of August Busch IV, the CEO and company heir; certainly, the interference by his father, August Busch III, played a major role. Late in the book, there's an interesting point made that what with the financial collapse that occurred right about the time of the merger, had A-B fought the merger, it might have won.… (mais)
Interesting story about the Anheuser-Busch hostile takeover by InBev. I enjoyed reading about the rise and the personalities of those that built the empire. The book got pretty deep into discussing mergers and acquisitions, which is not my first choice in reading material, but the characters kept it moving along. This book did really show how inertia and arrogance can harm a company. The actions of August III were amazing and how he sold out his own son and father.
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