America’s top-selling beer is no longer American.
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Last year, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation gave Bud Light parent company Anheuser-Busch a top rating for LGBTQ+ equality. But because of how the company handled backlash to a sponsored post by Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender woman, it’s now off the list.
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Dylan Mulvaney is a uniquely 21st-century star. She became famous on TikTok, where she pivoted from musical theater to advocacy when she came out as trans. She’s scored major brand sponsorships and made the jump to fame off-platform, even interviewing President Joe Biden.
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Beer ads try to be funny, but a regulatory group has determined that Molson Coors went too far with a recent ad that compares rivals’ light beer to water.
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Production of Corona beer is being temporarily suspended in Mexico because of the coronavirus pandemic. Grupo Modelo, the company that makes the beer, posted the announcement on Twitter, stating that it’s halting production and marketing of its beer because the Mexican government has shuttered non-essential businesses. The Anheuser-Busch Inbev-owned company also makes Modelo and Pacifico […]
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Bud Light Seltzer is joining the battle for spiked seltzer supremacy. Anheuser-Busch InBev’s newest addition to its spiked seltzer lineup is coming early next year. Although it’s named after its bestselling beer, Bud Light Seltzer will taste like hard seltzer. The beer conglomerate hopes the recognizable Bud Light brand will give it an edge in the rapidly […]
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The Des Moines Register reporter who exposed a man’s racist tweets from 2012 is no longer with the publication after readers revealed his own controversial social media posts. “We took appropriate action because there is nothing more important in journalism than having readers’ trust,” Executive Editor Carol Hunter said in an opinion piece, responding to […]
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Hard seltzer is big. Anheuser-Busch InBev thinks it’s about to get bigger. The alcohol company is launching a new line of spiked seltzer under the Natural Light brand, an affordable product marketed to college-aged drinkers. Natty Light Seltzer is not the first hard seltzer product for AB InBev, which already sells Bon & Viv. There’s no […]
