Advertising Age’s Jeremy Mullman, one of Lager Heads‘ more prolific competitors, has a good story about how Anheuser-Busch is changing its relationships with advertising agencies. Basically, the company plans to change its payment system to pay by the project, rather than…

Anheuser-Busch InBev’s plan to spread Budweiser across Europe hit a snag this week. A European Union court ruled that an European Union-wide trademark for “Bud” is not valid, supporting a challenge by a longstanding rival of Anheuser-Busch.

Before it was purchased by…

Anheuser-Busch shareholders voted today to accept Belgian brewer InBev’s $52 billion buyout of the St. Louis-based company. Anheuser-Busch officials announced the results of the voting at 11:25 a.m. CST during its shareholdering meeting at a hotel in Secaucus, N.J., a few miles from…

Molson Coors Brewing Co., whose TV commercials employ “cold trains” to remind drinkers of the beer’s chilliness, is starting to look like a freight train itself. As in — serious momentum.

Barron’s writes that sales of the Canadian company’s flagship Coors Light beer rose…

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.…