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After leaving the company 10 months ago, Anheuser-Busch’s highest-ranking female executive has sued the brewer, alleging gender discrimination and a pattern of unfair pay practices.

Francine Katz, formerly A-B’s former vice president of communications and consumer affairs…

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“Pabst Blue Ribbon is a recession juggernaut, but not just because it’s cheap,” Advertising Age scribe Jeremy Mullman reports.

PBR sales are up an “astounding” 25 percent this year, Mullman writes, quoting data from Information Resources Inc. From the story:

While cheaper…

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For months, beer drinkers have been moving to cheaper beers as the recession bites them in the wallets. Anheuser-Busch has noticed drinkers trying to stretch their bucks, and had adjusted its marketing to roll with the changing…

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, wants to sell off its central European operations in a deal that could reduce its debt by up to $2 billion, according to The Financial Times.

According to the U.K. newspaper, private equity groups including…

Behold us…we are Americans, and we are cheap!

At least, that’s Lager Heads‘ general impression from a Wall Street Journal story on the rise of low-priced beers. Apparently, the somewhat tenuous economic outlook has pushed drinkers to buy more “economy” beers. The…

Love them, hate them or fear them, the Busch family shaped the beer industry in indelible ways. It defined the market through its own successes, but also through the backlash against the standardization and commercialization that Anheuser-Busch seemed to represent.

That’s…

With InBev’s takeover of Anheuser-Busch, executives and directors at the St. Louis company collected hundreds of millions of dollars from selling their stock.

The Post-Dispatch covered the developing story in August, when Anheuser-Busch first said chief executive August Busch IV would have a lucrative consulting…