ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Anheuser-Busch's shareholders approved the sale of the company to Belgium-based InBev on Wednesday. Here's a look at the $52 billion deal:

--Anheuser-Busch InBev will be the world's largest brewery, producing an estimated 460 million hectoliters of beer annually.

--InBev's strategy is to increase sales of Budweiser and Bud Light in overseas markets where the beers are currently niche products.

--InBev CEO Carlos Brito, who will head the new company, has said Budweiser will become a global product along the lines of Coca-Cola or Pepsi.

--While Anheuser-Busch spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually in marketing, the company has focused mostly on its U.S. customers.

Source: InBev SA

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