Recently Anheuser-Bush, an American Corporation, and InBev, a Belgian Corporation, finalized a multibillion dollar merger to for
m the largest beer company in the world. Anheuser-Bush and InBev, prior to the merger, each sold beer in many countries around the world, including both Belgium and the United States. This merger is best described as a:
An horizontal merger is a consolidation or merging of companies that are the same industry. Merging of companies in the same industry helps the companies to have a greater market share of the industry.
As seen in the question below, both companies are beer companies and are consolidating or merging to form the largest beer company in the world. This wold give them a global coverage as opposed to the few countries they were restricted to before the merger.