Grupo Modelo S.A.B. DE C.V. Statement regarding DOJ action Mexico City, January 31st, 2013. Grupo Modelo, S.A.B. de C.V. and Subsidiaries (BMV: GMODELO), the leader in Mexico in beer production, distribution and marketing, announced that the Company was informed today that the U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to block AB InBev's acquisition of the remaining shares of Grupo Modelo that it does not currently own. ABI has informed us that it intends to vigorously contest the DOJ's action. Due to this fact, we do not expect the transaction to close in the first quarter of 2013.

At this point we have no other information to disclose.

Grupo Modelo, founded in 1925, is the leader in Mexico in beer production, distribution and marketing. It has a total annual installed capacity of 71.5 million hectoliters. Currently, it brews and distributes 13 brands, including Corona Extra, the number one Mexican beer sold in the world, Modelo Especial, Victoria, Pacífico and Negra Modelo. It exports six brands and is present in more than 180 countries. It is the importer of Anheuser-Busch InBev's products in Mexico, including Budweiser, Bud Light and O'Doul's. It also imports the Chinese Tsingtao brand and the Danish beer Carlsberg. Through a strategic alliance with Nestlé Waters, it produces and distributes in Mexico the bottled water brands Sta. María and Nestlé Pureza Vital, among others. Grupo Modelo trades in the Mexican Stock Exchange since 1994 with the ticker symbol GMODELOC and in 2011 it was included in its Sustainability Index. It also quotes as an ADR under the ticker GPMCY in the OTC markets and in Latibex in Spain as XGMD.

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Begoña Orgambide (52-55) 1103-5740 ir@gmodelo.com.mx

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