Anheuser-Busch InBev NV streamlined its global management structure after marketing spending on the soccer World Cup hurt second-quarter profit growth at the world's largest brewer. The Leuven, Belgium-based company is trying to become more agile by shifting to six geographic zones from nine, with new Middle Americas, South America and Asia Pacific areas combining previously separate jurisdictions, it said in a statement Thursday. The changes come as the maker of Stella Artois said earnings rose 7% to $5.57 billion on an adjusted basis before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expected 8% growth. The World Cup campaign for Budweiser, AB InBev's flagship lager, began in May as the company readied to square off against Carlsberg, the market leader in host nation Russia.