Lesson Summary. There are two types of costs that must be considered by a business: explicit costs and implicit costs. Explicit costs are easier to analyze as they are expenses that require a payment and have an amount that can be calculated.
All-American beer brands that foreign companies now own, such as Budweiser, have defied expectations of marketing experts and continued to exploit patriotic emotions and imagery to sell their products, reports Ad Age. Belgian-Brazilian adult-beverage giant InBev bought Budweiser parent company Anheuser-Busch in 2008 for $52 billion.
S hamu finally has a new owner. After months of negotiations, Anheuser-Busch InBev announced Wednesday that it will sell SeaWorld Orlando's parent Busch Entertainment Corp. to the Blackstone Group for as much as $2.7billion.