Anheuser-Busch takes over Goose Island

The Chicago Tribune reported on March 28 that Anheuser-Busch is taking over Goose Island.  To find out more about Anheuer-Busch and the beer industry, try out a few of the library databases found on the Business and Economics Research Guide.

To see a full history of the acquisitions of Anheuser-Busch, take a look in Mergent Online using the ticker symbol BUD. Mergent Online provides company financials and complete corporate histories of publicly traded companies.

Another source of information is market reports within Business Source Complete (BSC).  For example you can read the 102 page Breweries & Beer-Making Industry Report for 2011 that was found in BSC.