By Sara Schaefer Muñoz in Bogotá and Tripp Mickle in Atlanta At the center of SABMiller PLC's efforts to get a better deal in Anheuser-Busch InBev NV's takeover bid is a family whose brinkmanship at the negotiating table helped make them Colombia's richest. For decades, the Santo Domingo family has controlled a web of enterprises. Their sale of Colombian brewer Bavaria in 2005 to SABMiller saw the clan's $2.2 billion fortune Read more [...]

Seehofer says more than 225,000 refugees have arrived in his southern state in less than five weeks and authorities are stretched beyond the limit to house and care for them all.The Bavarian cabinet will meet on Friday to agree the measures, although legally the state cannot send back refugees as this would be a matter for the federal government in Berlin, where Merkel has refused to cap the number of arrivals.Seehofer told Bild newspaper that the meeting would examine how to integrate refugees. Read more [...]

LONDON — It is unusual to have the fate of a US$104 billion (S$147 billion) takeover campaign rest in the hands of one family. But in the case of SABMiller, its future lies in part with a wealthy Colombian clan that is one of its biggest shareholders.That is the Santo Domingo family, whose immense wealth has been tied to the canny way it came to dominate that country’s beer market. And a shrewdly constructed deal to sell their company to SABMiller a decade ago has now given it an outsized Read more [...]

Bavarian Premier Horst Seehofer announced plans to meet with his cabinet this week to discuss "self-defense measures," which could include sending some refugees back to Austria. Seehofer said state authorities were stretched beyond their limits in their work to house and care for all the people seeking refuge in southern German state. He had previously called on introducing limits to the number of refugees that Germany would accommodate. Seehofer said more than 225,000 refugees had arrived in Read more [...]

"Get out your lederhosen! Starch your dirndl!" urged the flyers. St. John the Evangelist Church in North Naples hosted an Oktoberfest celebration on Saturday, bringing a little bit of the Bavarian Alps to the flatlands of Southwest Florida.The repeat appearance of the celebration was presented by the Knights of Columbus Council # 11281, who hope to make this an annual Read more [...]

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“I completely underestimated it,” he told Bavarian radio, “this is really embarrassing. You can’t be too careful.” As if his mistake wasn’t mortifying enough, Mr Brunner had spent much of the summer issuing warnings about the high risk of forest fires in the area. And to make matters even worse, it transpired that he had broken one of his own laws by burning garden waste on a public holiday. In Germany, and Bavaria in particular, there are very strict laws about what you can and cannot Read more [...]

Summary: This is our first visit to Vizag and we want to explore our synergies in IT and other fields, says Executive Director, State of Bavaria, India Office, John Kottayil. Export from Bavaria to India in 2013 was to the tune of Euros 1.3 billion as against imports of Euros 943 million. Shiv Kumar Read more [...]