When 3G led InBev's hostile takeover of Anheuser - Busch, it quickly cut 1,400 jobs from the American
company (75 % of them in St. Louis) and brought in
Brazilian executives from InBev — itself the result of a 2004 merger of Belgian
beer maker Interbrew and
Brazilian beer maker Ambev, which was the result of a 1999 merger between Brahma and Antarctica — to run things.