Will Anheuser-Busch continue to shell out for as many commercials in future Super Bowls?

The brewer has been one of the game’s biggest advertisers for years, and has been the exclusive national beer sponsor since 1989. In the course of writing Super…

Lager Heads has learned that the communications and consumer affairs department at Anheuser-Busch will be closed through Friday. Why? Employees were told to work from home this week until they are called in for meetings to discuss their status.

As in other departments…

Wow, that didn’t take long. Twenty-one days after InBev of Belgium took over Anheuser-Buschof St. Louis, the combined company moved to eliminate overlapping staff. The cuts were not unexpected, but they are dramatic nevertheless, and aimed squarely at Anheuser-Busch’s St. Louis headquarters.

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It’s a big day for many people at Anheuser-Busch. Monday is one of a couple days in which the brewer’s eligible employees can retire under the company’s enhanced retirement program. (The others were Oct. 1, Nov. 1, and the upcoming Jan. 1).…

To the growing list of top executives leaving Anheuser-Busch in the wake of the takeover by InBev of Belgium, we add Francine Katz, Anheuser-Busch’s vice president of communications and consumer affairs. Lager Heads has learned Katz will leave Anheuser-Busch after 20 years, effective Dec. 31.

Katz has been on Anheuser-Busch’s…

Anheuser-Busch, the new subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev, will be going big in the February broadcast of the Super Bowl. As reported previously by Lager Heads, the company has purchased ten 30-second slots. The St. Louis brewer is again the exclusive beer sponsor of…

It struck Lager Heads as a little odd. In a press release Tuesday announcing that InBev had officially purchased St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, the Belgian-Brazilian company listed some of its key brands. Budweiser from America, Stella Artois from Belgium and Beck’s from Germany qualified as…

With InBev’s takeover of Anheuser-Busch, executives and directors at the St. Louis company collected hundreds of millions of dollars from selling their stock.

The Post-Dispatch covered the developing story in August, when Anheuser-Busch first said chief executive August Busch IV would have a lucrative consulting…

With InBev executives moving into the offices of Anheuser-Busch, now might be the time to wonder: What about the distributors?

Anheuser-Busch gets its beer to stores, bars and clubs by selling it to a network of hundreds of distributors, who…

InBev’s purchase of St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch this week raises more questions than it answered. Among them: Who will stay and who will go at Anheuser-Busch when InBev takes over? Will A-B’s marketing stay as good as it has been? (A-B…