Potential Buyers Show Interest in ABInBev CEE Assets

The potential sale of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Central and Eastern European brewing assets is heating up after five private equity firms expressed interest in looking at a possible deal. Although none of the private equity firms has made comments publicly, the group of five includes Cinven, CVC Capital Partners, KKR Private Equity, TPG Capital, and Warburg Pincus.

The sale, being offered by the world’s largest brewer, includes Anheuser-Busch InBev’s 11 breweries in Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia. Management presentations on the assets in question should be conducted within the next week, with first rounds bids most likely coming the week after.