August IV: “It Is Our Duty”

In a memo to distributors this afternoon, Anheuser-Busch chief August Busch IV said that, although he did meet with InBev directors Jorge Paulo Lemann and Marcel Telles in Tampa, "we did not request a proposal."August says that during the meeting they told the InBev directors that because this deal has generated "intense media speculation" that had "specific details", that any offer it had for A-B should, as a public company, be "put in writing and submitted to our board of