London-based SABMiller is preparing to reposition its Grolsch beer globally as a “maverick” brand, Marketing Week is reporting. SABMiller acquired the Grolsch brand in February 2008 from rival Anheuser-Busch. Now, it appears the brand is being pushed towards a more ambitious track.…

We are picking up lots of rumors that Anheuser-Busch InBev has found a buyer for its can and lid plants in the U.S. Names being tossed around as buyers include Ball Corp. and Silgan Containers, two big suppliers of packaging. We are…

What does the future hold for Anheuser-Busch’s far-flung packaging operations? For years, A-B quietly regarded the division as a valuable asset, worth being kept in-house. But under the company’s new management, several analysts suspect Anheuser-Busch InBev’s main interest in the…

Dear Lager Heads readers: Please consider this as much a request for help as a news story. We have picked up rumors that visitors from competing companies have been visiting Anheuser-Busch’s packaging operations recently. Recall that those packaging operations - which…

Note: The Bud Light “mega brand” has gained a full point of market share. We add a little clarification in the third-from-last paragraph. Happy reading!

Lager Heads just got off the phone with Keith Levy, vice president of marketing at Anheuser-Busch. It…

Note: Lager Heads reported earlier today that A-B’s packaging group included a labeling operation. That was incorrect: The labeling group, Precision Printing and Packaging Inc., was actually sold earlier this year. Lager Heads regrets the error, but thanks alert reader “Raven”…