Beer is one of the world’s oldest and most loved beverages, deeply rooted in culture, craftsmanship, and connection. Today, it remains a category defined by quality and tradition, while also expanding choice, broadening occasions, and embracing new possibilities—without losing what makes beer, beer.
At AB InBev, we are committed to leading and growing the category. Sustained investment in innovation plays a central role in strengthening the beer category. Across our global footprint, teams are applying brewing expertise, modern technology, and consumer insight to create options with and without alcohol, while maintaining uncompromising standards of taste and quality.
By investing in innovation that protects what people love about beer, AB InBev is helping create more choice, more occasions, and more ways to enjoy beer—building on centuries of tradition as we work toward a future with more cheers.
This work comes to life at our Global Innovation & Technology Center (GITEC) in Leuven, Belgium, where brewing heritage meets forward-looking innovation. By rethinking fermentation and advancing new brewing capabilities, our teams are raising quality standards in no-alcohol beer—progress that helps advance the entire beer category, not just a single segment.
In February 2026, National Geographic went inside our labs to explore how innovation is shaping the future of beer—and what this means for the category more broadly. The feature offers an independent look at how innovation, craftsmanship, and scale can come together to support beer’s next chapter. Read the National Geographic feature here.
Credit: National Geographic, Photographs by Justin Jin
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About AB InBev
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) is a publicly traded company (Euronext: ABI) based in Leuven, Belgium, with secondary listings on the Mexico (MEXBOL: ANB) and South Africa (JSE: ANH) stock exchanges and with American Depositary Receipts on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUD). As a company, we dream big to create a future with more cheers. We are always looking to serve up new ways to meet life’s moments, move our industry forward and make a meaningful impact in the world. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest ingredients. Beer is the drink for moderation, and for over a century, AB InBev has championed responsible drinking. We are committed to providing our consumers with balanced choices to enjoy on any occasion. We also invest in marketing that aims to reinforce positive behaviors, and we work with communities, customers, and partners to promote responsible consumption through evidence-based initiatives.
Our diverse portfolio of well over 500 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser®, Corona®, Stella Artois® and Michelob Ultra®; multi-country brands Beck’s®, Hoegaarden® and Leffe®; and local champions such as Aguila®, Antarctica®, Bud Light®, Brahma®, Cass®, Castle®, Castle Lite®, Cristal®, Harbin®, Jupiler®, Modelo Especial®, Quilmes®, Victoria®, Sedrin®, and Skol®. Our brewing heritage dates back more than 600 years, spanning continents and generations. From our European roots at the Den Hoorn brewery in Leuven, Belgium. To the pioneering spirit of the Anheuser & Co brewery in St. Louis, US. To the creation of the Castle Brewery in South Africa during the Johannesburg gold rush. To Bohemia, the first brewery in Brazil. Geographically diversified with a balanced exposure to developed and developing markets, we leverage the collective strengths of approximately 144 000 colleagues based in nearly 50 countries worldwide. For 2024, AB InBev’s reported revenue was 59.8 billion USD (excluding JVs and associates).
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About Budweiser Brewing Company APAC Limited
Budweiser Brewing Company APAC Limited (“Bud APAC”) is the largest premium beer company in Asia Pacific, with leadership positions in Premium and Super Premium beer segments. It brews, imports, markets, distributes and sells a portfolio of more than 50 beer brands, including Budweiser®, Stella Artois®, Corona®, Harbin®, Hoegaarden® and Cass®. Through its local subsidiaries, Bud APAC operates in its principal markets, including China, South Korea, India and Vietnam. Headquartered in Hong Kong SAR, China, Bud APAC operates 47 breweries and employs approximately 21,000 colleagues across APAC.
Beer is the drink for moderation, and for over a century, Bud APAC, as part of the AB InBev, has championed responsible drinking. Bud APAC is committed to providing its consumers with balanced choices to enjoy on any occasion. It also invests in marketing that aims to reinforce positive behaviours, and it works with communities, customers, and partners to promote responsible consumption through evidence-based initiatives.
Bud APAC is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code “1876” and is a constituent stock of the Hang Seng Index. The company is a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the public company based in Leuven, Belgium and listed on Euronext which has over 600 years of brewing heritage and an extensive global presence.
