It beats cutting cane ...but these guys dont deserve their market share

Goulet;
perhaps you would want to explain why they don't deserve the market share,
they have worked hard at that, I know most of them and they are decent people,
trouble is they are too powerful and in the eye of everybody who want more,
and they cannot satisfy everybody.
Also know lots of people who worked for them and never express any ill feelings
personally to the Leon family.

It 's good to have these ratings it may rub off on the big companies who don't treat their employees well at all.

Dennis this is an area that i have some expertise .....tobacco and alcohol companies are huge profit pigs so they should pay extremely well many of the great fortunes of Latin America are built on these two pillars....our local example has a history of government patronage that with the advent of free trade they will have to do without....next without competition they have been overcharging for their product and hiring to many vice presidents in charge of sitting by the door and their secretaries also lavish expense accounts and benefits for executives....now a new competitor arrives.....after surveying the market sees top heavy bloated company that is overcharging for its product....Now they begin the attack...the new guy is no dummie and we have him to thank for all these innovations and new sizes and light and sale prices etc. .....and this is just the beginning .....Competition is good

they will roll out new products and cut prices until they are competitive in this market remember these are the same guys who just offered 47 billion US to buy BUD..they will not be denied ...If the public wishes to pay more to maintain some idea of Nationalistic pride...... well they deserve expensive beer then

Who are the same guys that offered $47B to buy AB?

InBev made the unsolicited bid to AB for the shares...
As expected it was refused...

He means the same people, as in the "same people" that own Brahma and sell it in the DR...
Even when Brahma is a solid seller in the DR, the lion's market share of beer in the DR still falls into the DR brands...

Brahma will soon join Heineken, Carlsberg and many others that made their name initially in the DR but won't topple the king of Quiskeya...

Goulet, I do have other perspective too that I am also familiar with,
it happens, they as a family have been wise enough to associate themselves with
companies that represent solid products,
Marlboro was a name by itself when they got the association with Philip Morris, at the time one of the biggest companies in US, and their main competition was Compañia Anonima Tabacalera, state run and awfully administered plus a terrible product, CAT was used primarily as political positions with people who had little idea about their job.,
Then came the oportunity to buy and they had the money for it, a super product as Presidente beer, who already is an international success, more over in our country, and an top class
product.
Competition, from whoever comes, must work dilligently and with great products to beat that
economic empire.

Dennis I just want a fair deal for the public,,,,they have not been getting one in the past ...contrary to the publicity of beer company....Presidente group is going to have to sharpen their pencils and get rid of a lot of fat...They have never faced a challenge like this ....and Miller can no longer help them...the picture is going to look very different in three years with Cafta in effect....I predict to circle the wagons Cerveceria will make a deal with one of the biggies probably Miller SAB

which is now Miller SAB ,Molson Coors

Best deal is that the best companies in Dominican Republic are borned and raised in Santiago de los 30 caballeros.

"Santiago es Santiago"......................La ciudad corazon

sorry Rubi but these guys are coming to kick Presidentes butt...pay attention because Presidente is going to have to cut a lot of fat ...this is the first time ever they have faced this kind of compettition ...The public wins better pricing and better service ...if they think national pride will save them they are wrong...I gaurantee their market share will diminish every year....and I predict they will look for a big brother like Miller Sab Molson Coors to protect them....In the executive meetings at Cerveceria they say " be afraid be very afraid ".... http://globalbeerleader.com/featured.php

Budweiser is very very afraid... http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Anheuser-Busch-InBev.html

Bud has to eat Modelo a huge brewery in Mexico to protect itself from Inbev bud also owns 27% of Chinas Tsingdao and presently 50% of Modelo Mexico