Analyst: Heineken Needs to Buy Molson Coors

Dear Client:The gap between the world's largest brewer and the second largest brewer is a whole lot wider now thanks to the completion of MegaBrew. The new Anheuser-Busch InBev generates 2.5x the revenues and 4x the EBITDA than the new number two, Heineken.The "most critical question" Heineken now faces, says Evercore ISI analyst Robert Ottenstein, is "How to thrive long-term vs a competitor with vastly greater resources?" Robert believes Heineken's answer lies in a strategic acquisition of Molson Coors. The