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Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of Budweiser beer, used " BUD " as its three-letter ticker until it was acquired by InBev in 2008, symbolizing its premier product.
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Anheuser-Busch and brewer
InBev was the second-largest beer-producing company in the world and Anheuser-Busch held the third spot, but after the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch by InBev, the new Anheuser-Busch InBev company is currently the largest brewer in the world.
* 1839 – Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch ( d. 1913 )
In 1995, it was purchased by Belgian brewer Interbrew ; it is now part of Anheuser-Busch InBev.
It is home to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer group and one of the top five largest consumer goods companies in the world ; and to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence.
In 2004 Interbrew merged with Brazilian brewer AmBev to form InBev, which is the now largest brewer in the world by volume, with a 13 % global market share ( as of 2004 ) now named Anheuser-Busch InBev ( 2008 )
In May 2010 it was speculated in The Times that InBev ( Anheuser-Busch InBev from 2008 onwards ) would attempt to sell the Boddingtons brand to another brewer after its failed attempt to sell the UK rights to Bass ale.
It was later bought by the Belgian brewer Interbrew ( now InBev ) in June 2000, which became part of Anheuser-Busch InBev in 2008.
Paul von Gontard had married Clara Busch, daughter of American brewer of German origin Adolphus Busch in 1895 and joined his wife in the USA, becoming involved in the Anheuser-Busch company.
In May 2006, InBev announced that it was selling the Rolling Rock brands to Anheuser-Busch, the largest brewer in the United States.
In 1876, the US brewer Anheuser-Busch began making a beer which it also called " Budweiser.
The name for the stadium comes from Anheuser-Busch, formerly the largest American brewer.
It is named for brewer and philanthropist Adolphus Busch, former president of the Anheuser-Busch company, who contributed $ 265, 000 to its building fund.
Heineken is the world's third-largest brewer of beer, after Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller.
Anheuser-Busch and Budweiser
Anheuser-Busch introduced this lager in 1876 under the brand name Budweiser.
Budweiser and Anheuser-Busch enjoyed two decades of growth before the onset of prohibition in 1920.
Anheuser-Busch had to suspend brewing of Budweiser during prohibition and launched a range of non-alcoholic products.
When prohibition came to an end in 1933, Anheuser-Busch began brewing Budweiser again.
After the war Budweiser and Anheuser-Busch entered into an era of rapid growth.
Anheuser-Busch uses what is in many jurisdictions a legally-protected mark-of-origin indicating Czech provenance and humorous advertising campaigns to promote Budweiser, such as the " Real Men of Genius " radio and television commercials for Bud Light.
In 2008, Anheuser-Busch became Kasey Kahne's primary sponsor, and has also sponsored many races, including the Budweiser Shootout, and previously The Bud at the Glen, Budweiser 500, and Budweiser 400.
Anheuser-Busch has placed Budweiser as an official partner and sponsor of Major League Soccer and Los Angeles Galaxy and was the headline sponsor of the British Basketball League in the 1990s, taking over from rival company Carlsberg.
Anheuser-Busch has also placed Budweiser as an official sponsor of the Premier League.
Budweiser and Bud Light are the only Anheuser-Busch InBev brands that are normally featured in the company's Super Bowl commercials.
* Adolphus Busch's brewery, Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, Missouri, first markets Budweiser, a pale lager, as a nationally sold beer.
Anheuser-Busch operates a large regional Budweiser brewery, Clorox produces bleach products, and the Jelly Belly Candy Company confects its specialty jelly beans in Fairfield.
The brewery became part of Scottish Courage, and is now leased to Anheuser-Busch Europe Ltd and produces Budweiser pale lager.
The Budweiser name would be at the center of controversy for 60 years between DuBois Brewing and Anheuser-Busch.
The new owners of the Budweiser name reportedly " settled " with Anheuser-Busch to the tune of a $ 1 million dollar profit for Pittsburgh Brewing.
The modern-day Nationwide Series was formed in 1982, when Anheuser-Busch sponsored a newly reformed late-model sportsman series with its Budweiser brand.
The same product is also sold elsewhere under the names " Budvar " and " Czechvar " due to legal disagreements with Anheuser-Busch over the Budweiser brand.
Anheuser-Busch has made offers to buy out the Czech brewing company in order to secure global rights to the name " Budweiser ", but the Czech government has refused all such offers, regarding the Czech Budweiser name as a matter of national pride.
Originally sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, the first arcade versions sported a " Budweiser " motif ( the Budweiser theme song was actually used in the arcade game ), The machine was intended to be sold to bars with many of the cabinets designed to look like bars — complete with a brass rail footrest and drink holders.
In 2004, Anheuser-Busch adopted an all-aluminum bottle for use with Budweiser and Bud Light beers.
Anheuser-Busch and beer
In 2008 Anheuser-Busch sold the majority of their stock to Belgian-Brazilian beer giant InBev, to create the largest brewing company in the world.
* MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch in the United States domestic beer market.
The first ice beer marketed in North America was Canadian Ice, which was introduced by Molson in April 1993, although the process was patented earlier by Molson's competitor, Labatt ( now part of Anheuser-Busch InBev ), instigating the so-called " Ice Beer Wars " of the 1990s.
* Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors do control about 80 % of the beer industry.
Leuven is also the worldwide headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the largest beer company on the planet.
Following the 2007 season, Anheuser-Busch, makers of the Busch brand of beer, said they would not renew their contract with NASCAR.
Bevo was a non-alcoholic malt beverage, or near beer, brewed in the United States by the Anheuser-Busch company beginning in the early 20th century.
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In 2006, Buffett launched a cooperative project with the Anheuser-Busch brewing company to produce his own beer under the Margaritaville Brewing label called Land Shark Lager.
In 2008, the UFC announced two major exclusive sponsorship deals with Harley-Davidson and Anheuser-Busch InBev, making the brewer's Bud Light the official and exclusive beer sponsor of the UFC.
In 1988, the Teamsters Union, which represented brewery workers at the top three U. S. beer makers at that time ( Anheuser-Busch, Miller, and Stroh ), gained enough signatures to trigger a union representation election inside the Coors company.
Anheuser-Busch also uses the terms " sub-premium " and " super-premium " to describe the low-end Busch beer and the slightly higher-end Michelob.
On February 9, 2012, the Oglala Sioux Tribe filed a federal lawsuit against Whiteclay's liquor stores, as well as national beer distributors and manufacturers, including Anheuser-Busch InBev, Molson Coors Brewing Company, Pabst Brewing Company, and Miller Brewing Company.
was a commercial campaign for Anheuser-Busch Budweiser beer from 1999 to 2002.
In 1933, KMOX covered the first post-Prohibition case of Budweiser beer leaving Anheuser-Busch for the White House, a story carried nationally by CBS.
When this agreement expired in 1983, Anheuser-Busch took over the rights, but instead of putting the name of one of its brands of beer on the stadium, agreed to name it Sullivan Stadium in honor of the Sullivan family, majority owners of the Patriots.
" By December, 1996, supporters consisted of Alliance Gaming ( slot machines ), Anheuser-Busch ( beer ), Bruss Company ( steaks and chops ), Cargill Processed Meat Products, Davidoff ( cigars ), Harrah's ( casinos ), Overhill Farms ( frozen foods ), Philip Morris, and Standard Meat Company ( steaks ).
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When the St. Louis Cardinals were owned by Anheuser-Busch, Busch Memorial Stadium organist Ernie Hays played " Here Comes the King ", a commonly recognized jingle for Budweiser beer, during the stretch.
Although by the late 1940s he was the highest-paid umpire in the league, he was earning three times as much from his offseason business as an Anheuser-Busch beer distributor.
The beer is brewed and canned in the European Union under the licence of, and distributed by, Zuidhollandse Bierbrouwerij, a trading name of Anheuser-Busch InBev, a multinational beverage company which owns the ' Dutch Gold ' trademark.
In this merging, the group acquired 15. 1 % of SAB Miller, becoming the second-largest shareholder of the second-largest beer company in the world ( behind Anheuser-Busch InBev ).
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