Court filings in the UK show that the petition was made on Thursday by Frontier Agriculture to have the world’s largest brewer’s arm in the UK wound up.
AB InBev UK has sales of about £1.6bn (€1.9bn) a year.
ABF owns 50pc of Frontier Agriculture. The other half is owned by Cargill, a US agri giant that is the largest privately owned business in America.
ABF and AB InBev have been asked for comment.
ABF describes Frontier Agriculture as the leading provider of grain marketing and crop-production services to customers in the UK.
“It supplies seed, crop protection products and fertiliser to farmers, as well as providing specialist agronomy advice,” it notes.
In its last annual report – for the financial year that ended last September – ABF noted that Frontier held back the performance of the group’s overall agriculture business.
AB InBev is headquartered in Belgium and listed on the New York Stock Exchange
“With a small decline in sales and bigger drop in profit, agriculture was held back by its joint venture business Frontier that is generally a first-class business specialising in grain trading and crop inputs, both of which suffered this year from exceptional weather conditions disrupting farms,” it noted.
“Looking through that disruption, we remain on track to develop more tech-orientated services, particularly for dairy farms.
“Longer term, we believe nation states will prioritise food production for security of supply and our businesses will play a pivotal part in supporting that goal.”
AB InBev is headquartered in Belgium and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It has a market capitalisation of $141bn (€122bn).
Apart from Budweiser and Corona, its stable of more than 500 brands includes Stella Artois and Leffe.
The group generated $59.3bn in revenue in its 2025 financial year and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of $21.2bn.
Its UK arm made a £21m pre-tax loss in 2024, compared with a £72.2m loss the year before.
The beer market declined in the UK during 2024.
“While challenges remained, particularly in managing costs and adapting to evolving consumer behaviours, the overall market conditions were more stable than in 2023,” noted AB InBev UK in its accounts.
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