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Bud Light Brewer Lays Off Hundreds of U.S. Workers: Anheuser-Busch restructures corporate offices amid controversy and sales slump
Wall Street Journal ^ | 07/27/2023 | Ngai Yeung

Posted on 07/27/2023 9:48:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Anheuser-Busch InBev laid off hundreds of workers at its U.S. offices after months of slumping sales at Bud Light.

The world’s largest brewer, which also sells Stella Artois and Budweiser, on Wednesday said the cuts would affect less than 2% of its roughly 18,000 U.S. workforce. The layoffs won’t impact front-line workers such as brewery and warehouse staff, the company said.

“While we never take these decisions lightly, we want to ensure that our organization continues to be set for future long-term success,” Anheuser-Busch Chief Executive Brendan Whitworth said in a written statement. “These corporate structure changes will enable our teams to focus on what we do best—brewing great beer for everyone.” The restructuring eliminated corporate and marketing roles at major U.S. offices, including St. Louis, New York and Los Angeles.

Bud Light sales have tanked since April amid a commercial backlash over a promotion with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Earlier this summer, Mexican brand Modelo Especial dethroned Bud Light as the top-selling beer in the U.S.

AB InBev is slated to update investors on its latest quarterly financial results next week.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anheuserbusch; budlight; dylanmulvaney; homosexualagenda; layoffs; lgbt; lgbtq; queerbeer; trannyfluid
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1 posted on 07/27/2023 9:48:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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At the start of July, Ardagh Group, a glass bottle producer who contracts with Anheuser-Busch, said it was closing plants in North Carolina and Louisiana. The closures will result in the firing of 645 employees -- all because Bud Light's Harvard-educated marketing director (now fired) thought it would be a great idea to celebrate Mulvaney's "365 Days of Girlhood."

From blue-collar workers at bottle plants to white-collar workers at corporate and marketing offices of Anheuser-Busch, there are hundreds of innocent folks, if not many more, who are unemployed because of 'wokeness' backfiring.

2 posted on 07/27/2023 9:49:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Billions lost, lay-off’s, brand destroyed all preferable to a simple unambiguous apology. That is what devotion to the woke a-holes looks like


3 posted on 07/27/2023 9:51:45 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: SeekAndFind

send your “thank yous” to horse face


4 posted on 07/27/2023 9:53:36 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s a shame

When are you going to lower the price of platinum?


5 posted on 07/27/2023 9:53:39 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: SeekAndFind

EVERY action has a REACTION.


6 posted on 07/27/2023 9:54:33 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The layoffs won’t impact front-line workers such as brewery and warehouse staff, the company said.


So who did lose their jobs?


7 posted on 07/27/2023 9:55:17 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: gibsonguy

The jerk executives blame the customers for not bending the knee to the perverts.

This is a company that needs to finish the crash and burn process.


8 posted on 07/27/2023 9:56:10 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: gibsonguy

They are reaping what they sowed.....and they refuse humility at there own peril.

Makes me wanna start drinking beer again just so I could boycott that mess.


9 posted on 07/27/2023 9:56:14 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bud Light is a casualty of a proxy war between the U.S. Government and the American public. We don’t have F-16’s, but we can shove a can of beer up your DEI / ESG posterior.


10 posted on 07/27/2023 9:57:33 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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The restructuring eliminated corporate and marketing roles at major U.S. offices, including St. Louis, New York and Los Angeles.


asked and answered. Now what are their names?


11 posted on 07/27/2023 9:58:10 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind

(Anheuser-Busch InBev laid off hundreds of workers at its U.S. offices after months of slumping sales at Bud Light.)

1) Get Woke

2) Go Brokeback Mountain

3) Go Broke

Simple.

So simple, even a reprobate can do it ...


12 posted on 07/27/2023 10:05:21 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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(This is a company that needs to finish the crash and burn process)

Works for me

I say, let ‘em crash!


13 posted on 07/27/2023 10:09:23 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

Worst part is, if the moonbat college girl would have asked the janitor, he’d have told her it was a bad idea.


14 posted on 07/27/2023 10:09:36 AM PDT by Fireone (Trump won.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good riddance to A/B.
Find and drink other products besides A/B products.


15 posted on 07/27/2023 10:09:52 AM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: SeekAndFind

They should have apologized in April and hired Chuck Norris as their spokesman. But now it’s too late.


16 posted on 07/27/2023 10:10:28 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: SeekAndFind

It is time for AB to suspend sales of Bud Lite forever. After a period of time, they can introduce another lite beer under a new label and an Ad campaign geared to their old audience.


17 posted on 07/27/2023 10:11:29 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: SeekAndFind

Anheuser-Busch went pro tranny now reap the rewards of it EARNED.


18 posted on 07/27/2023 10:13:16 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Hopefully, just the chain of command responsible for the fiasco.


19 posted on 07/27/2023 10:13:55 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo“What were you doing in the store? You were eating the food?”)
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To: SeekAndFind

Blame your local degenerate tranny for that.


20 posted on 07/27/2023 10:19:15 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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