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11.04.2009 3:49 pm

Do brewery mergers call regulation, “three-tier” system into question?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Lager Heads had the honor of moderating a fascinating - and heated - panel at a beer conference last month in Chicago. The topic: Globalization and its effect on the regulation of alcohol in the U.S.

We wanted…

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11.04.2009 11:56 am

Pabst on the selling block

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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The benefactor that owns the Pabst Brewing Company and its iconic brands has put the business up for sale, according to the New York Post.

The sale has actually been in the works for some time, beer industry…

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10.22.2009 10:42 am

The one-year anniversary of Anheuser-Busch InBev approaches. Lager Heads wants your help

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dear readers:

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…

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10.16.2009 3:42 pm

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…

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10.15.2009 11:06 am

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…

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10.15.2009 9:11 am

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…

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10.15.2009 8:59 am

Post-Busch, what are the prospects for Busch Entertainment?

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The folks at theme-park news website Blooloop.com executed a great idea when private equity group Blackstone recently agreed to buy Anheuser-Busch InBev’s SeaWorld and Busch Gardens theme parks. They tracked down several former Busch Entertainment executives and asked them…

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10.13.2009 4:45 pm

Anheuser-Busch InBev and PepsiCo ink joint purchasing agreement

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Anheuser-Busch and PepsiCo, two of the world’s biggest beverage companies, have agreed to jointly purchase certain goods and services in the U.S, such as information technology hardware, office supplies, travel and facilities services, transportation, and maintenance…

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10.13.2009 4:36 pm

Changes in Anheuser-Busch’s media department

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More changes are afoot near the top levels of management at Anheuser-Busch.

Mark Wright has been promoted to vice president of media, sponsorship and activation at Anheuser-Busch, replacing Dan McHugh, who left the company on Monday. Wright will…

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10.13.2009 12:19 pm

Anheuser-Busch looking for buyer for Kingsmill resort

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Attention: Anyone with a hankering for golf and perhaps $44 million burning a hole in their pockets.

Kingsmill Resort and Conference Center in Williamsburg, Va. is up for sale.

We find this interesting, because we used to work in the vicinity of the…

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