In a striking turn of events, the Anheuser-Busch Board of Directors has met in St. Louis today and agreed to InBev's $70 a share, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and the FT. The new company will be called Anheuser-Busch Inbev. In a surprisingly amicable ending to a month-long tragi-comedy of cat and mouse that often was contentious, A-B's board ultimately succumbed to a sweetened bid that could not, in good conscience, be rejected - particularly as InBev's
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