Potential Coca-Cola Insider Buyout Stirs Old Concerns

Is the idea of a buyout of Coca-Cola that far-fetched? Coca-Cola’s buyout by 3G Capital? Earlier this year when David Winters, CEO of Wintergreen Asset Management, advanced the notion that a buyout of The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) by 3G Capital and Warren Buffett, it was generally dismissed in the media and even by Buffett himself. But today the idea is being actively considered, which raises an old Winter’s concern. An analysis of potential takeover prospects for Brazilian hedge fund 3-G Capital and Belgium-based Anheuser Busch Inbev SA (ADR) (NYSE:BUD) (EBR:ABI), owners of Budweiser among other prized properties, might do well to…