[Dr. Sivana]

Flexing their monopoly position in a regulated industry.

Not a Monopoly, a Duopoly, with InBev. Those two are like DC and Marvel. (Goodbye Fawcett, Charlton, Harvey, Dell, Gold Key ... Archie remains a mutilated bit player, and of course the Independents are the comic book version of Micro-Brews)

[a fool in paradise]

Even moreso with InBev controlling distribution (at least in Texas).

When Marvel Comics bought up the leading distribution company in the 1990s, it monopolized the industry, flooded the channel, and many stores went bankrupt about tanking the entire industry.

[a fool in paradise]

Even moreso with InBev controlling distribution (at least in Texas).

When Marvel Comics bought up the leading distribution company in the 1990s, it monopolized the industry, flooded the channel, and many stores went bankrupt about tanking the entire industry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/business/dealbook/anheuser-busch-miller-merger-wins-us-antitrust-approval.html

July 2016

Anheuser-Busch InBev said on Wednesday that the United States Justice Department had cleared its $106 billion proposed takeover of SABMiller, provided some conditions were met, all but clearing the way for the two biggest brewers in the world to merge.

That would combine the maker of the Budweiser and Miller beers into one company, with an estimated global market share of about 28 percent, according to Euromonitor International.