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AB InBev comes out ahead of Heineken for sales in 2025 – results data

Olly Wehring
Last updated: 24/02/2026 at 7:43 PM
By Olly Wehring
12 February 2026
4 Min Read

The Budweiser owner’s full-year performance sits just behind 2024’s 2.7% sales increase.


AB InBev quarterly sales Q1 2022-Q4 2025

A low single-digit lift in sales from the final three months of 2025 has helped AB InBev report a year of top-line growth, outstripping its closest rival, Heineken.

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Final quarter of 2025 sees sales increase by 2.5% to US$15.55bnFull-year sales rise 2%, totalling $59.32bnA low single-digit lift in sales from the final three months of 2025 has helped AB InBev report a year of top-line growth, outstripping its closest rival, Heineken. The Stella Artois brand owner said today (12 February) that its sales in the quarter to the end of December came in 2.5% higher than the corresponding period a year earlier. For the full 12 months of 2025, which comprised four consecutive quarters of sales growth, AB InBev's top line finished 2% on 2024. Earlier this week, Hein

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Olly Wehring
ByOlly Wehring
Olly has been reporting on the beverage industry as a B2B journalist since 2003. He spent 18 years at Just Drinks, 16 of which as managing editor. Since joining Global Drinks Intel in 2022, he's interviewed the CEOs for brand owners including AB InBev, Campari Group, Carlsberg, Heineken and Suntory Global Spirits and has a bulging contacts book from across beverage alcohol worldwide.
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