"The beer business was flat and needed major refreshment."

The talks illustrate how dependent the global beer business has become on acquisitions.

Q. Philip Morris has had problems with its beer business for years.

I wouldn't say Philip Morris is out of the beer business.

We get the license and then we're in the beer business.

We became our own distributor and learned the beer business from the bottom up.

The clubby nature of the beer business had turned into a bruising battle.

His success did not last long however, and he died a year later, but his wife continued the beer business until her death in 1630.

McCain had little interest in the beer business itself, instead preferring to talk to colleagues about current events.

In 1997, the nation's beer business grew by just four-tenths of 1 percent.