1. Beer Industry Consolidation Harry Schuhmacher Beer Business Daily
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2. “Consolidation started 10 years ago and probably has 10 more to go before it winds down.”
    
            -Peter Swinburn, CEO MolsonCoors

3. Beer is one of the biggest consumer goods categories in the world, just short of $200 billion in retail value
and 1.45 billion hectoliters in volume.
Beer is also very heavy relative to its price.

4. InBev's Route to Consolidation
Artois Beck's Bass Hoegaarden Labatt's
Interbrew AmBev
InBev Anheuser-Busch
AB InBev

5. InBev Map
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6. SABMiller's Route to Consolidation
South African Breweries
Aparthied Lifted
Miller Snow Bavaria
SABMiller Molson Coors
MillerCoors
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7. SABMiller Map

8. Beer Consumption Ranking by Country
China
United States 
Germany
Brazil
Russia
Japan UK
Mexico
South Africa
Spain.

9. Top Global Brewers

10. The top five global brewers already account for two-thirds of the world beer market and this could rise to 85% if InBev buys A-B.

11. Top Beverage Companies
1.  Nestle
2.  Coca-Cola
3.  Coca-Cola Enterprises
4.  Anheuser-Busch
5.  Diageo
6.  SABMiller
7.  InBev
8.  Heineken
9.  Suntory
10. PepsiCo
11. Pepsi Bottling Group
12. Asahi
13. Kirin
14. Fonterra
15. Pernod Ricard
16. Dean Foods
17. Kraft Foods
18. Femsa
19. Unilever
20. Dairy Farmers of America
Out of the top 20 beverage companies, 8 are beer companies.

12. Secondary Consolidation
Pabst in play
Magic Hat and Pyramid
Production deals

13. Wholesaler Consolidation Tied-House implications, overreaching
What Does Consolidation Mean to Control States?
Pricing stabilized
Dedicated to system
Wholesaler Consolidation
Tied-House implications, overreaching