01.13.2009 4:23 pm
Memo: Anheuser-Busch procurement department may be trimmed
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Lager Heads has learned that the procurement department at Anheuser-Busch’s St. Louis headquarters will be closed on Thursday as the company informs individual employees of whether they still have jobs.
According to a memo sent to employees, “meetings will be scheduled with employees to discuss the department restructuring impact on individual positions.” The company asked all procurement division employees, including administrative staff, to work from home.
This is just the latest round of such meetings that A-B employees have weathered in the wake of InBev’s buyout last year.
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Jeremiah McWilliams is a native Virginian who came to the Post-Dispatch in early 2007 to cover beer and other consumer products. He previously covered manufacturing for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Va. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University. 
If only they were as good at brewing beer as they are laying people off and running gold-standard multinationals into the ground. Sickening.
This is, unfortunately, not the first time this has happened at AB. The oldtimers will remember 1974 when heads were literally rolling down Pestalozzi street after old man Busch went off his nut. That was just before he was deposed by AAB III. The difference now, of course, is that these actions are being directed by an outside enemy who delights in posing as a benevolent new owner. InBev is scum, top to bottom, but Brito is by far the worst because he pretends to be otherwise. When the union contract runs out in 5 years, so will the life span of our company.
And we sit anxiously and nervously at the distribution warehouse in MT Vernon waiting for our slips. Just sickening.
I just hate it when Potsi and Fonzi come up with some crazy financial scheme to buy Budweiser with Burrito. That is why my conscience can no longer support such treachery and dearth. Henceforth, I shall only buy Schlafly beer. Long live Schlafly…
second round,bet they dont get the waren act two months that brito hated the 1st round. what a chump brito turned out to be. when asked about what they will learn from A-B his comment was ” we bought them out, we will learn nothing from them but they will learn from us.” and what about last weeks hearing with the fire marshal, about how many people could occupy the 9th floor. what arrogance when the third world idiots told St.Louis ” you need to change your laws.” hey the fire dept. thinks about peoples lifes and safety, something that we are seeing that brito doesnt care about. pabst for me and I still work there.
hey d. hu—–. your relitive still comes in at 9:30-10 a.m. and gone by 4p.m. she should have been gone but hey lets keep relitives and get rid of good employees, are you related to brito?????
If anybody is interested in a complete list of AB-InBev products as of Tuesday, email me at tlund@ me.com. It’s scary and hard to believe that our government could let this happen. The list — including energy drinks and so forth — totals 307 products. It took some digging, and I think that’s because they really (InBev) don’t want people to know what they own.
We are hearing that 50 people will be let go between Procurement, Master Data, & Raw Materials departments.
Hey ccccc - I don’t know who you are, but you make me laugh every time you post. I wish I could have seen the fire marshal’s face when the Boys from Brazil suggested a change in the law. Those elitists want a city like Sao Paulo - where the rich are really really rich, and the poor live in shanties with dirt floors. Please keep posting, ccccc. You make my day by exposing these guys for what they are - jerks.
As a lifetime St Louis resident. InBev is not the enemy. AB stockholders passed this, and the firm has been so fat and over employed for too long. This is the nature of the beast. AB was a fat fat company, and perhaps now InBev can pass savings on to consumers.
“pass savings on to consumers.” That’s a good one!!