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Bud, Peroni owners brew-up mega-merger

SABMiller accepts a takeover proposal at the fifth time of asking after Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer, set out a cash-and-share package currently worth 69 billion pounds ($106 billion). As Ivor Bennett reports new deal ranks in the top five mergers in corporate history and is the largest takeover of a UK company.