Yep. That would be the "turned hostile" part mentioned earlier. They filed a court motion, but that was as far as it got. A-B could have dragged it to court, and taken a long time to do it. Not the right move, IMO, but they could have. Instead, they waited out a higher offer--assuming if not actually knowing one would come-- and jumped on it.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:15 PM, William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > the board (not the shareholders) voting to > > accept the offer within just a couple of days. > > If I am not mistaken, inBev actually tried to have the A-B Board of > Directors replaced before the second offer was made. > > Ah, here we go... > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7492934.stm > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/07/08/cninbev108.xml > > not sure if it happened... > > -- > will > > "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; > and that would just be unacceptable." > - Carrie Fisher > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:270028 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
