Lesson Summary. There are two types of costs that must be considered by a business: explicit costs and implicit costs. Explicit costs are easier to analyze as they are expenses that require a payment and have an amount that can be calculated.
All-American beer brands that foreign companies now own, such as Budweiser, have defied expectations of marketing experts and continued to exploit patriotic emotions and imagery to sell their products, reports Ad Age. Belgian-Brazilian adult-beverage giant InBev bought Budweiser parent company Anheuser-Busch in 2008 for $52 billion.
Who owns Lowe's? Wal-Mart Stores Inc. owns the Walmart line of department stores and the Sam's Club line of membership-only warehouse stores. Lowe's Company Inc. exclusively operates the Lowe's line of home improvement stores. Each company has its own associated private brands that are carried only in its own stores.