Schlafly to Buy InBev?
June 25, 2008 9:30 am Beer Musings
I know I’ve kept pretty quiet about the whole AB/InBev deal, mostly because I’m pretty apathetic to it. I know it sounds pretty terrible, but in my eyes it’s just a business decision. (In fact this article sums up my feelings pretty well.) I realize that a lot of people in St. Louis would be affected by the buy-out, but it basically comes down to one huge company buying another huge company. It just so happens that people have a special place in their heart for one of the companies, but unfortunately all of the fliers, blogging and hand wringing in the world isn’t going to do much to stop it.
On the lighter side of all of this, it looks like Schlafly is trying to do their part to keep local beer local, they’ve begun a fund-raiser to buy InBev. Now it’s only going to take 50 billion small one dollar donations to make it happen, but nothing is impossible!
Tags: anheuser-busch, inbev, schlafly
ericburnley :
Date: June 25, 2008 @ 10:58 am
Wow, over $100 already!
Dan D. :
Date: June 25, 2008 @ 12:42 pm
Yet another reason to love Schlafly.
cubby_swans :
Date: June 25, 2008 @ 12:43 pm
“It just so happens that people have a special place in their heart for one of the companies, but unfortunately all of the fliers, blogging and hand wringing in the world isn’t going to do much to stop it.”
THANK GOD! Someone else sees this for what it is. I’m frankly getting sick and tired of the e-mails asking me to sign some stupid on-line petition as well as all the blog comments on sites like stltoday.com stating things like “AB Shouldn’t allow this” as if they have a choice.
scotty p :
Date: June 25, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
warren buffet is rich for a reason, and it isn’t because he listens to online petitions.
Derek Bean :
Date: June 25, 2008 @ 9:31 pm
Thank you Mike and Cubby for stating exactly what I’ve been thinking. It’s so funny, 2 months ago, the only people in this town who knew anything about Inbev were people in the beer biz, or beer enthusiasts. Now it seems everyone is an expert on the World’s Largest Brewer.
And, perhaps more disturbing, now everyone is feeling sorry for the Busch Family (?!). WTF? The Busch Family? I think they’ll fare just fine.
Leave it to Dan Kopman at Schlafly, though, to come up with a clever PR stunt like this!
Dave J :
Date: June 26, 2008 @ 8:21 pm
Put me in for a buck.
Bryce :
Date: June 28, 2008 @ 2:54 pm
Yep, I’m with you on this on. Just another big business decision.
I was reading through the signers’ comments at savebudweiser.com the other day. I was amused by one that threatened to start buying Miller if the good ‘merican company of A-B was bought out. I suppose this signer prefers to send her dollars to South Africa instead of Belgium!
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