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Litigation

Mar. 27, 2013

Beer drinkers pursue class action to block merger

Fearing prices will skyrocket as competition erodes, a class of beer drinkers decided to take it upon themselves to fight the merging of Budweiser and Corona's two parent companies, Anheuser-Busch InBev and Grupo Modelo.


By Hadley Robinson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Fearing prices of their frothy beverages will skyrocket as competition erodes, a class of beer drinkers decided to take it upon themselves to fight the merging of Budweiser and Corona's two parent companies, Anheuser-Busch InBev and Grupo Modelo S.A.B. de C.V.


After the Department of Justice announced settlement negotiations in its own antitrust lawsuit against ABI last month, Joseph M. Alioto ...

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