* UK court hearing on voting system Aug. 22
* Deal completion expected Oct. 10, trading on Oct. 11 (Adds detail on timetable)
BRUSSELS, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller, the world's two largest brewers, set outa timetable on Monday for the final stages of their $100billion-plus merger, with completion of the deal expected in alittle more than two months.
SABMiller's board agreed last week to an improved 79 billionpound ($104.3 billion) offer from AB InBev, which said it wouldnow publish the takeover terms on Tuesday.
A key step in the process is an Aug. 22 British courthearing to assess SABMiller's proposal that its shareholdersshould be divided into two classes, with each needing to approvethe terms.
AB InBev has put forward two variations of its offer: astraight 45 pounds per share intended for the majority ofinvestors and a cash-and-shares offer aimed at SABMiller's twolargest shareholders, Altria and the Santo Domingo familyof Colombia. The two own 41 percent of SABMiller.
The combination is contentious because the cash-and-shareoffer is now worth more than the cash bid, though the new shareswould have to be held for five years.
By splitting the vote, the deal would need backing from upto 85 percent of the shares rather than the 75 percent needed ina unified vote. Altria and Bevco, the Santo Domingo investmentvehicle, have already signalled their support.
AB InBev and SABMiller shareholder meetings are scheduledfor Sept. 28, with completion of the deal expected on Oct. 10and trading of the yet to be named combined group slated forOct. 11.
The timetable comes after a hectic Friday in which Chinafirst gave conditional approval for the merger. The SABMiller board also recommended acceptance, though it did say the dealwas at the lower end of an acceptable range.
The deal, the largest ever in the consumer industry, wouldcombine AB InBev's Budweiser, Stella Artois and Corona withSABMiller's Castle Lager and take it into fast-growing Africanand new Latin American markets.($1 = 0.7575 pounds)
(Reporting by Philip Blenkinsop in Brussels and Pranav Kiran inBengaluru; Editing by Don Sebastian and David Goodman)
