Note: Lager Heads reported earlier today that A-B’s packaging group included a labeling operation. That was incorrect: The labeling group, Precision Printing and Packaging Inc., was actually sold earlier this year. Lager Heads regrets the error, but thanks alert reader “Raven”…

This offer would certainly have been tough to refuse.

Anheuser-Busch employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have overwhelmingly approved a new five-year contract.  The agreement was ratified nearly four months before the current contract expires in late February, and passed by a margin of more…

MillerCoors, the North American joint venture of brewers SABMiller and Molson Coors Brewing, notched a 15 percent increase in third-quarter profit this morning and said its outlook for revenue growth for the rest of the year was strong.

The Chicago-based joint venture has about 30…

Those jittery stock brokers and investors are apparently a little more comfortable with Anheuser-Busch this week. With A-B shareholders voting next Wednesday on InBev’s $70-per-share buyout, the St. Louis brewer’s stock closed at $64.60 Tuesday afternoon, up about 1 percent.…