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The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating piece about the life and times of management theorist Russell Ackoff, who died Oct. 29 at age 90. Ackoff, apparently, put his stamp on a number of big companies,…

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Dutch brewer Heineken has apparently discovered a neat trick: In the face of falling beer sales, raise prices and cut costs. Voila! Bigger profits. We’ve seen it before from other big brewers in St. Louis, London…

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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 news wires were burning up yesterday that Anheuser-Busch InBev is planning to raise beer prices this year to cover higher costs. At first, we sort of shrugged, because we’ve been reporting that beer prices had continued to rise. As we wrote…

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Dozens of colleges are up in arms over a new Anheuser-Busch marketing campaign that features Bud Light beer cans emblazoned with local schools’ team colors, the Wall Street Journal is reporting here. From the story:

Many college administrators contend that the…

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Don J. Blaustein, chief executive officer of the U.S. unit of Dutch brewer Heineken, is leaving the beer giant amid weak sales results for the Heineken brand, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.

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President Obama’s choice of a Bud Light at today’s White House summit with a Harvard professor and a Massachusetts policeman has sparked an outcry.

That’s right. His choice of beer has sparked an outcry. We thought beer was supposed to smooth…

The Associated Press has picked up a fascinating angle in the century-long battle between Anheuser-Busch and Czech brewery Budejovicky Budvar. Budvar, which is tussling with A-B (now Anheuser-Busch InBev, of course) in courts across the world over a trademark dispute related to…