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.
1 Sierra Nevada Brewing is owned by the American Ken Grossman. He is a co-founder of the brewery.  Anchor Brewing, which has been in operation since 1896, is owned by the American Fritz Maytag, of the Maytag family that once owned the Maytag appliance company.