Brazil

Japanese drinks group Kirin has secured full ownership of Brazilian brewer Schincariol, after agreeing to buy the 49.54% of the business it did not already. Kirin secured a controlling... 2011-11-07

Snack and soft drink giant PepsiCo has sealed the acquisition of Brazilian biscuit maker Mabel, according to a report in local newspaper Estado de S. Paulo. The deal is said to be worth... 2011-11-04

Since the start of 2011 the Brazilian Bovespa index has lost around 20% of its value on the back of concerns over the state of the global economy. Over this period Brazilian consumer... 2011-10-25

BMI's food and drink team are rolling out a series of new and improved risk/reward ratings for all its regions. The new ratings, introduced here for the Latin America region are more... 2011-10-24

Beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev's chief marketing officer has said in an interview with Bloomberg that the firm plans to increasingly promote its flagship Budweiser brand in Brazil... 2011-09-23

Chile's second-largest grocery retailer by market share Cencosud can look forward to the next few years. Increasingly well-positioned in Latin America and in particular Brazil, it is... 2011-09-08

Selling more than US$36bn worth of beer a year, AB InBev is a beast of a company and nearly 1.7 times the size of Heineken (see first chart). Borne out of the Belgian-Brazilian giant... 2011-08-19

Within the major countries of Latin America the beer sector is highly concentrated, with AmBev dominant in Brazil and Argentina (as well as in Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay ), SABMiller... 2011-08-16

Reports in the Brazilian press have suggested that Walmart has been in talks to acquire Carrefour's operations in the country. These reports come after Carrefour failed to secure a... 2011-08-10

US soft drink and snack giant PepsiCo has moved to quickly dismiss suggestions that it could follow the example set by Kraft and split the business in two. Analysts from Sanford Bernstein... 2011-08-08