SABMiller's new owner, Anheuser-Busch InBev, is recruiting again after a higher than expected number of former SABMiller managers took a voluntary severance package and left in January amid allegations that positions were made redundant, forcing some people to leave. But Ricardo Tadeu, Africa Zone president at AB InBev, said the company now needed to hire at least 100 new people as it planned new developments. "We are going to invest in two new production lines in South Africa. That will be announced in [the] future. So we'll need people to run those lines," Tadeu told Business Times on Friday. Of just more than 1,000 managers that SABMiller employed when AB InBev completed the $103-billion takeover in October last year, 378 departed through the severance package process as part of the company's global cost-cutting plans. The process only affected managers at headquarters, not operations, to minimise disruption, Tadeu said. It was the first time such a large scale restructuring had ...
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