Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Toasts China’s Reopening

The chief executive of the world’s largest beer maker had some encouraging words Thursday for a broad swath of companies and their investors.

Speaking on an analyst conference call, Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Michel Doukeris said China is the market he is most excited for this year.

“China was incredibly disrupted last year by [a] series of lockdowns…and people really losing opportunities to be social and to use our products,” he said. But Mr. Doukeris added that he had just returned from a week-long visit to the country, where he saw restaurants with two-hour waiting lists and “nightlife parks full of people and consumption resuming very quickly.”