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).

[table caption=”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
[attr colspan=”1″],[attr colspan=”1″],Total [attr align=”right”],489.6
[/table]

Source: A-B InBev