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When the folks at Beer Marketer’s Insights checked several months back, Anheuser-Busch was essentially holding its market share steady in St. Louis, despite a massive round of job cuts, less than deft PR and turmoil after InBev’s takeover.

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It has been 12 years since Graham Mackay became boss of “plain old South African Breweries,” as writer Andrew Davidson puts it. A lot has changed. Mackay’s company, now dubbed SABMiller, is a “global beer giant” larger than…

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How big should Schlafly be?

The St. Louis Brewery Inc., which does business as “Schlafly,” is riding a big wave of demand. Sales are up about 30 percent this year, and the company is in the middle…

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The newest CEO of of Heineken’s U.S. business has seen some crazy stuff. He once ordered his brewery in the Congo barricaded as militants fought outside. Now, Dolf Van den Brink has to demonstrate cool under a…

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We would like to thank St. Louis University for the delicious coffee and pastry we enjoyed this morning, as well as for the interesting discussion of Budweiser’s global prospects. That discussion touched off the Boeing Institute of…

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About 18 months ago, Anheuser-Busch executives started publicly touting a new strategy to boost sales and profits: Adding new line extensions to Bud Light and Budweiser. Each big beer would be the main component of a “megabrand.”…

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One year of Anheuser-Busch InBev is now in the bag. Wednesday marked the birthday of the world’s biggest brewer, when InBev of Belgium officially took control of St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, which it had been eyeing as a…

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We have heartily enjoyed helping to put together the Post-Dispatch’s four-day series on the first anniversary of Anheuser-Busch InBev. In case you’ve missed some of the work, here is a compilation, just in time for the…

When it first made its bid for Anheuser-Busch last year, few St. Louisans had ever heard of InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian hybrid that had rapidly grown into one of the world’s top brewers. As part of a four-day Post-Dispatch series starting Sunday, we…

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The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating piece about the life and times of management theorist Russell Ackoff, who died Oct. 29 at age 90. Ackoff, apparently, put his stamp on a number of big companies,…