Japan's Asahi to acquire SABMiller brands for $7.8b

Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy SABMiller Plc’s eastern European assets from Anheuser-Busch InBev NV for 900 billion yen ($7.8 billion), Nikkei newspaper reported on its website, as the Budweiser maker ties up loose ends resulting from the combination of the world’s two biggest brewers.