Well, we’re back from Chicago. Did you miss us? (Please, don’t everybody answer YES!!! all at once.)

We met a lot of interesting people and learned a lot at the alcohol-focused legal symposium, which was organized by the Center for Alcohol…

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Anheuser-Busch and the American Red Cross have announced a national disaster preparedness initiative that will spread to 16 U.S. cities after being pioneered at Anheuser-Busch.

The brewer was the founding sponsor of the “Ready Rating” program and the first…

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The Sports Business Journal has a couple of fascinating stories on what has - and hasn’t - changed inside Anheuser-Busch’s marketing department since InBev took over. They are good reads.

Bottom line: Anheuser-Busch is shifting marketing dollars around, and…

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,…