On June 20, 2011, Foster's Group Limited received and promptly rejected an unsolicited, non-binding and conditional proposal from SABMiller plc to acquire all of Foster's shares.
This list transforms year after year thanks to a mass of mergers and acquisitions. This year, Anheuser-Busch InBev moves up into the No. 2 spot. Which other companies are establishing a stronghold in this staple market?
Of the 100 companies featured on a list of top global marketers, 36 are CG companies. The leaders had one big thing in common: They advertise where they see opportunity for growth. These days, that means China.
Molson Coors Canada is the first business unit in the company to design, develop and implement a massive five-year customer relationship management transformational program. Three key executives reveal how they standardized 70 percent of the company's sales processes in an extremely complex and highly-regulated market.