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…

The Rocky Mountain News has a fascinating story here about the role of the old Adolph Coors Co. in creating the first seamless, recyclable aluminum beer can. It might sound a little dry, but that can — rolled out 50 years ago last…

Anheuser-Busch scores higher than all but one company in a cross-sectional study of big beverage firms’ recycling practices by a San Fransisco-based corporate responsibility watchdog group. But the St. Louis- based brewer could do more to boost the use of recycled metal and curb…

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”…