A look at companies behind Budweiser name battle
Key facts on the 2 companies jostling over exclusive rights to the Budweiser brand name
In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 photo a view of the Budejovicky Budvar brewery, in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. They've been arguing about a name for 106 years. A small brewer in the Czech Republic and the world's biggest beer maker have been suing each other over the right to put the word Budweiser on their bottles in what has become a David versus Goliath corporate saga. A deal, it seems, will have to wait a bit longer because settlement talks between state-owned Budejovicky Budvar and Anheuser-Busch, a U.S. company now part of AB InBev, have collapsed, according to Budvar's director general, Jiri Bocek. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
CESKE BUDEJOVICE, Czech Republic (AP) -- The key facts on the two companies involved in a century-old dispute over the exclusive use of the Budweiser brand name.
Name | AB InBev | Budejovicky Budvar |
Based | St. Louis (Anheuser-Busch unit)Leuven, Belgium (parent company) | Ceske Budejovice |
Founded | 1876 (Anheuser-Busch unit) | 1895 |
Volumes brewed | 349.8 million hectoliters (73.9 billion pints) | 1.32 million hectoliters (279 million pints) |
Revenue in 2011 | $39 billion | $101 million |
Countries sold | 80 | 60 |
Key markets | U.S., Canada, China, Britain | Czech Republic, Germany |
