Barron's said, Brito "has turned a South American brewer into the globe’s largest beer company, capped by the $52 billion purchase of Anheuser-Busch in 2008.

In 1989, he joined Brazilian beer and soft drinks company Brahma,[7] which merged in 1999 with Companhia Antarctica Paulista to form AmBev.

[10] In 2004, AmBev merged with Belgium’s Interbrew, owner of traditional beer brands Beck's and Stella Artois, to create InBev.

Trevor Stirling, a beer industry analyst at Bernstein Research (AB), said Brito made the company "enormously more profitable.

"[12] In October 2016, Brito led the acquisition of SABMiller at a purchase price of $102.85 billion, one of the largest corporate mergers in history.