Lesson Summary. There are two types of costs that must be considered by a business: explicit costs and implicit costs. Explicit costs are easier to analyze as they are expenses that require a payment and have an amount that can be calculated.
All-American beer brands that foreign companies now own, such as Budweiser, have defied expectations of marketing experts and continued to exploit patriotic emotions and imagery to sell their products, reports Ad Age. Belgian-Brazilian adult-beverage giant InBev bought Budweiser parent company Anheuser-Busch in 2008 for $52 billion.
The merger (A-B InBev acquisition of SABMiller), closed on October 10, 2016. The new company is called Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (AB InBev), trading as BUD on the New York Stock Exchange and as ABI on the Brussels Stock Exchange.