ABI Sells SABMiller’s Central and Eastern European Assets to Asahi

Dear Client:Japan's Asahi Holdings has emerged victorious in the huge competition for SABMiller's Central and Eastern European (CEE) assets, but at what cost?Anheuser-Busch InBev sent out word early this morning that it had "entered into a binding agreement" with Asahi to sell the businesses for an agreed enterprise value of 7.3 billion euros ($7.8 billion)."The deal left some investors with a bad taste because of the unexpectedly high price tag," reports the Wall Street Journal. Asahi had previously stated that