Firm Watch
Sep. 12, 2000
Jones Day: AUSSIE BEER MAKER BUYS CALIFORNIA'S BERINGER
Australia's Foster's Brewing Group Ltd. has bought California's Beringer Wine Estates Holdings Inc. The combination stock and assumption of debt deal is worth $1.5 billion.
Foster's, based in Southbank, Australia, distributes its beer in about 135 countries. It also operates direct-marketing wine merchants in Australia, Europe and the United States and owns 25 percent of Molson ...