Tigers and Bears, Oh My

In case you missed it yesterday: Starting on May 1, 2006, Anheuser-Busch will begin importing and marketing in the US Tiger Beer from Singapore, the latest in A-B's strategy of acquiring rights to high end brands. Just after A-B secured the rights to Grolsch, it now announces the deal with Tiger, which should have brought some much-needed good news to their distributor meetings currently underway in Dallas. Still, is it enough? We estimate Tiger sells less than half a million