Former Anheuser-Busch executive Francine Katz sues brewer, alleges sex discrimination
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After leaving the company 10 months ago, Anheuser-Busch’s highest-ranking female executive has sued the brewer, alleging gender discrimination and a pattern of unfair pay practices.
Francine Katz, formerly A-B’s former vice president of communications and consumer affairs…
UK chief of Czech brewer Budvar calls Anheuser-Busch InBev “weaselly.” Oh no, he didn’t!
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The Publican, a trade publication for bars and pubs in the United Kingdom, picks up a juicy nugget in the multi-decade and multi-country trademark dispute between Anheuser-Busch and Czech brewer Budvar over the name “Budweiser.”
The story reports that…
Former Anheuser-Busch executives shop their marketing expertise; St. Louis talent an “enormous asset”
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It’s a question we will be asking more and more in the coming weeks: What do folks do when they leave Anheuser-Busch? A lot of people have left in the 11 months since InBev took over.…
Will pressures force family-run Femsa to exit beer business?
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The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating story on why brewer Femsa, one of Mexico’s most storied companies, is contemplating getting out of the beer business.
Femsa, brewer of Dos Equis and source of the “World’s Most Interesting Man”…
The one-year anniversary of Anheuser-Busch InBev approaches. Lager Heads wants your help
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We are working on a number of stories about the one-year anniversary of the creation of Anheuser-Busch InBev. As of Nov. 18, we will have seen one year of the world’s biggest brewer. We are still sifting through all…
Analyst: Beer distributors happy, set to consolidate
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Last year, the national conference of the National Beer Wholesalers Association was “more angst-fest than beer-fest,” in the words of one Wall Street analyst. That made sense: Beer middlemen were preoccupied with their evaporating wealth and nervously…
Bud Light Golden Wheat to have big presence on Saturday Night Live
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So a funny thing happened on the way to taping this week’s Saturday Night Live. Anheuser-Busch went and bought all the national commercials within the broadcast.
Yep, all of them. That means that Anheuser-Busch is going to hit viewers with…
Underfunded Anheuser-Busch pension plan restricts certain forms of payments to salaried employees
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Anheuser-Busch Cos. - part of Anheuser-Busch InBev - has an under-funded pension plan for salaried employees, thanks to a round of retirement packages last year and the eroding stock market.
That news came courtesy of an Oct. 8 letter…
Anheuser-Busch InBev sells Central European operations to private equity group
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Anheuser-Busch InBev will sell its Central European operations to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners for as much as $3 billion. The deal continues a string of asset sales by the world’s biggest brewer. It includes a payment…




