Foreign investment in U.S. companies continues to be strong. When Belgian-based In-Bev purchased the largest beer company in the U.S., Anheuser-Busch, this action constituted a(n) ________ with a negotiated selling price of $52 billion.
A) merger
B) aggregate
C) acquisition
D) unequivocal buy-in

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An outright buy-out or purchase is known as an acquisition. As noted in the textbook, In-Bev bought the largest brewer of beer in the U.S., Anheuser-Busch. The purchase included all of the company's assets and all the companies it owned. This is known as an acquisition.

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