Here is more context after today’s announced deal in which A-B InBev will buy the remaining stake in Grupo Modelo for $20.1 billion. The deal is the second-largest in beer industry history only to InBev’s acquisition of Anheuser-Busch in 2008 for $52 billion.

A-B InBev, once approved, would take the reigns of an additional thirteen brands including Corona, “the #1 Mexican beer sold in the world,” Modelo Especial, Victoria, Pacifico and Negra Modelo. Plato Logic reports that Grupo Modelo sold nearly 32 million hectoliters of Corona in 2010, giving A-B InBev its eighth out of the world’s fifteen top-selling beer brands.

Below is the data from UK-based research firm, Plato Logic, for 2010 (2011 data unavailable).

The World's Top 15 Beer Brands

Rank	Brand	Company	Sales in MM HL
1	Snow (portfolio)	SABMiller	84.1
2	Bud Light	A-B InBev	55.6
3	Budweiser	A-B InBev	41.0
4	Skol	A-B InBev	40.4
5	Tsingtao	Tsingtao Brewery Group	35.1
6	Corona	A-B InBev	31.9
7	Brahma	A-B InBev	31.8
8	Beijing Beer	Asahi Breweries	30.5
9	Heineken	Heineken	28.9
10	Coors Light	Molson Coors	25.5
11	Miller Light	SABMiller	18.7
12	Harbin	A-B InBev	17.8
13	Baltika	Baltika	16.6
14	Antarctica	A-B InBev	15.9
15	Busch	A-B InBev	15.8
		Total	489.6

Source: A-B InBev