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Appendix 3

Summary of

Top Thirty Case Studies

Below we have summarized the thirty most important case

examples we have used in this book. They are listed in alphabeti-

cal order.

AB Inbev is today the combination of Ambev, the leading beer

company in South America; Interbrew, one of the leaders in

Europe; and, recently, Anheuser-Busch, the leader in North

America. It is now the largest beer company in the world, with

2010 revenues of $36 billion. Central to the success of AB Inbev is

its repeatable model for managing costs, operations, and assets,

which traces much of its origin to the Brazilian Ambev. Ambev

reports separate results, not distorted by the continuous string

of combinations driving the parent company, and has shown a