Talent Factory as Acquisition Currency

"AmBev’s talent factory, spilling out droves of highly-talented executives at full speed, was able to expatriate more than one hundred executives of all seniority levels to international outposts of the newly-created company. Carlos Brito, AB InBev’s current CEO, was one of them: he left AmBev to run Labatt for some time, and to get some international mileage under his belt, a move agreed upon with the Belgians before he took over as InBev’s CEO in Leuven."

"In 2014, AB InBev’s Global Management Trainee (GMT) program had a class of 147 young professionals, chosen from a pool of more than 94,000 candidates."

"The best part of those first ten years heading Brahma had been taken by Marcel’s efforts to build an all-star team at the company. He would call them “The Few. The Proud,” in an allusion to the U.S. Marine Corps slogan."