Gov. Matt Blunt in a letter to Chairman William E. Kovacic has requested that the Federal Trade Commission review the proposed sale of Anheuser-Busch to InBev to determine if it would prevent free competition by creating a near monopoly in the beer beverage market. Blunt pointed out that if the sale goes through the beer beverage market would be dominated by InBev and Miller Brewing owned by London based SABMiller. Without cutbacks that new ownership often creates presently Anheuser-Busch provides more than 5,000 jobs for Missouri workers; direct company operations in St. Louis have a $3.8 billion economic impact on the region and a $5 billion total impact to Missouri's economy. Considering domestic operations as a whole, Anheuser-Busch has contributed $36 billion to the US Gross National Product.