S&N for sale

From Stonch's blog came this link to notice of potential diminution of a once-powerful UK brewery oligarchy.

UK brewer Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) says:
it has entered into talks with Carlsberg and Heineken

Some of the beers that Scottish and Newcastle owns outright—or through complex arrangements—include:

• Foster's
• Beamish Stout
• Grimbergen
• Kingfisher
• Baltika
• Kronenbourg
• John Smith's
• Strongbow Cider
• Maes Pils
• Sagres
• Lapin Kulta

and, what started it all for them, in 1927: Newcastle Brown Ale.