Budweiser rules this town, as illustrated by these shots at Busch (as in Anheuser-Busch) Stadium during a Cardinals baseball game. Like the sign on the bottom says, Genuine St. Louis Since 1876. Except it's not anymore, not since AB sold out to the Belgian-Brazilian megabrewer Inbev, resulting in hundreds of local layoffs. Budweiser is pretty bland, anyway, IMHO ...
More than 200 people took to the riverfront and the Mississippi River itself Saturday morning to help clean the river up. But for many of the volunteers, there was an additional statement to be made ... The vast majority of the group are Anheuser Busch employees ... Late last year, when the brewery was purchased by Belgian Brewer InBev, critics predicted a drop off in charitable giving and community service by A-B ... Brewery officials point to today as evidence that that hasn't happened ...
On the Jaco Report, more on health care. Amy Blouin, executive director of the Missouri Budget Project, public policy group that tracks the impact of policy decisions, joins Charles to talk why the push-back against the Obama administration's health care overhaul has become so strong. Plus InBev buys out AB, lays off thousands, and now raises the boss' pay. We look at how the brass on Pestalozzi Street rode into town and cleaned up for themselves. Ed Martin, founder of SaveAB.com, talks with
On the Jaco Report, why are banks scrambling for stimulus money turning around and gouging customers with higher credit card interest rates and penalty fees? President Obama was questioning those practices this week. Also, not everybody is thrilled with the changes at AB-InBev. What one local company is saying ...
Anheuser-Busch InBev has lost a battle to the "Budweiser" name after an EU court rejected its claim to register the word as a Europe-wide trademark.U.S.-based Anheuser-Busch -- now renamed Anheuser-Busch-InBev after a $52 billion takeover by Belgium's InBev -- and smaller Czech rival Budejovicky Budvar NP haggled for years over the name, once also the name of Czech town famous for its fine beers ...