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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…

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We can always count on MillerCoors, the Chicago-based competitor to Anheuser-Busch, to periodically aim feisty and creative challenges at its much larger rival. They are entertaining.

The latest challenge seems to be in the service of free…

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Chicago-based MillerCoors has found innovative ways to make its mark at the Dallas Cowboys‘ new football palace, according to CNBC reporter Darren Rovell.

“The most talked about part of the $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium is of course the…

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Did Bud Light hurt Budweiser? Advertising Age contributor Al Ries thinks so.

Ries recently penned a fascinating and provocative article in Ad Age about how - as he sees it - brand extensions are a bad idea. The article is entitled: “Slowly But…

Reporter’s note: This is for all you lager heads out there who didn’t see the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sunday. Enjoy!

After word leaked out recently that Anheuser-Busch was getting ready to test-market a new beer called Select 55 - billed as “the world’s…

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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…

President Barack Obama will have Bud Light, America’s bestselling beer and a mainstay of Anheuser-Busch InBev, when he hosts an old friend and the police officer who arrested him. From the Bloomberg story:

Obama has picked the top-selling beer in the U.S.…

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…