Update: A-B Rejects InBev's $46.3 Bil. Offer

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CHICAGO Anheuser-Busch has declined InBev’s $46.3-billion acquisition bid this week, calling the offer “financially inadequate.”

August Busch IV, president and CEO, stated in a letter sent to Carlos Brito, InBev’s chief executive, that the offer to buy the company’s outstanding common stock for $65 a share greatly undervalued the nation’s largest brewer.

The response came after the Belgian company said Thursday that it filed a lawsuit in a Delaware court that sought to embolden A-B shareholders to take the merger decision out of the hands of the St.

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