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About 18 months ago, Anheuser-Busch executives started publicly touting a new strategy to boost sales and profits: Adding new line extensions to Bud Light and Budweiser. Each big beer would be the main component of a “megabrand.”…

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We have heartily enjoyed helping to put together the Post-Dispatch’s four-day series on the first anniversary of Anheuser-Busch InBev. In case you’ve missed some of the work, here is a compilation, just in time for the…

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Yeah, we know…this is a blog about beer, not about lawyers. But we couldn’t resist passing along this story about Molson Coors Brewing’s chief legal officer, Sam Walker. It caught our eye and is a fascinating look…

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Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s biggest brewer, said beer sales in the third quarter dropped in the midst of a rough economy. But despite struggles in the key U.S. market, the company managed to make a bigger…

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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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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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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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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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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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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…