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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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Yeah, we know…this is a blog about beer, not about lawyers. But we couldn’t resist passing along this story about Molson Coors Brewing’s chief legal officer, Sam Walker. It caught our eye and is a fascinating look…

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MillerCoors‘ third-quarter profit rose 37 percent as cost cuts and strengthened sales of the company’s cheaper beers helped buoy the brewer’s profits, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.

It’s a fascinating look at how well Anheuser-Busch InBev’s toughest…

Molson Coors will work to cut costs and lure consumers with promotional packages during the rest of this year, as forecasting sales trends remains difficult, Reuters is reporting.

Molson Coors, jointly headquartered in Denver and Montreal, makes Coors Light and a variety of…

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Crain’s Chicago Business has a fascinating profile of Leo Kiely, the feisty chief executive of Chicago-based MillerCoors. Kiely has an extremely interesting job: taking on Anheuser-Busch in the U.S.

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One year after the joint venture between SABMiller and Molson Coors shook the beer-making world, the merger has achieved efficiencies that have surpassed goals set by company leaders, the Denver Business Journal reports.

The joint venture, which became official…

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Bud Light and Coors Light are massive brands that dominate the U.S. beer industry. They go head-to-head on the grocery store shelves and in the ice cooler. The summer, as always, is the stage of their ongoing…

MillerCoors, the Chicago-based competitor to Anheuser-Busch, has hired a soft drink executive to lead the company’s Coors Light and Coors Banquet brands. (Hat tip to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, story here.)

Rick Gomez most recently worked at PepsiCo as vice president of marketing waters,…

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The U.S. beer business is getting tougher. In industry parlance, the “pie” does not seem to be growing. Sales are lackluster, and industry types are wondering if this will lead to more intense competition as mega-brewers…

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The beer business did not exactly set the world ablaze this Memorial Day, the year’s first key holiday period for brewers. Overall, beer sales were down seven tenths of a percentage point in food, drug…