Good day all. Sales of Bud Light and other Transheuser-Busch products have essentially collapsed to the point that Transheuser-Busch is reduced to paying people to take their products off the shelves. The boycott has now started a chain reaction as production lines shut down.
With sales down 20-30 percent from prior to the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco, and Transheuser-Busch being forced to buy back expired beer from distributors, companies that produce the beer or their ancillary products such as bottles and cans are closing down lines. Here are some of the details from the Daily Caller:
This company is literally crumbling before our very eyes. Bud Light’s decision to partner with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney has been an utter disaster, with several executives being fired from the brand as a recent result. You even have former executives of the company calling for the current CEO to be canned as well.
Sadly, at this point it may be too late for firing the CEO to help. Industry experts are now saying that the lost business may never come back. Now the ripple effect has taken hold.
Even businesses outside of Anheuser-Busch are getting hit, with retailers taking major financial hits because they’re struggling to sell their supply of Bud Light. In fact, it’s been so bad that the beer has been priced lower than water at some bars.
It’s been a trainwreck for Bud Light and everybody connected, and things are reportedly getting even worse for the beer giant as production is now being impacted.
I’m not surprised of course. There is no reason to produce at the levels they once did if they end up throwing out the products that no one wants to buy.
Production plants that work with the Anheuser-Busch brand are now starting to shut down, with a glass bottle factory in Wilson, North Carolina being forced to close its doors in the next few weeks, according to WRAL. Declining sales “forced a glass plant in Wilson to cut down bottle production starting in May,” read WRAL’s report.
“With Bud Light’s huge drop in sales, last week, the plant’s owner, the Ardagh group, announced it would be shutting down the factory in Mid-July, laying off close to 400 employees.”
Another plant associated with Bud Light in Ruston, Louisiana is also shutting down, with 245 jobs being lost.
I wonder if they’ve spoken to all the other beer breweries that are actually increasing sales? They’re going to need extra bottles and cans. Of course, they’re also having problems of their own. It takes time to brew beer and the collapse of Transheuser-Busch and AB InBev caught everyone by surprise.
It’s going to be hard for these workers. The economy is going south, thanks to Bidenomics, and the levels of Woke Stupidity from Corporations has finally reached critical mass. With inflation, people’s expenses have skyrocketed and they’re cutting back on things that really aren’t needed, such as beer. Add to that having the Woke progressives basically insulting their customers, they’ve decided to take their business elsewhere. It’s not just Transheuser-Busch.
Disney is on the cusp of bankruptcy. They have been dropping more bombs of late than the 8th Air Force did on Germany in World War 2. (The latest Indiana Jones movie is getting royally panned by everyone) They can’t fill their parks and they have a $9 billion dollar or greater bill coming due next year and all they have is about $200 million in cash on hand.
The only other beer company to so quickly fall from grace is the Schlitz brewing company. Their first mistake was to go from their tried and true brewing process and ingredients to something that came out of a chemistry lab. Then the Light Beer craze started and Schlitz marketing came up with the “Drink Schlitz or I’ll kill you.” campaign. Schlitz as an independent company was gone within 5 years.
Now we’re seeing the same thing happen with Transheuser-Busch. I don’t see any way they can turn things around under it’s current owners or management. It’s possible Transheuser-Busch might be spun off or sold to another holding company. It’s also possible that InBev might just decide that a quick bullet to the beer keg is the best way to deal with this mess. If people thought this was going to just fade away, they were wrong.
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Interesting info about Schlitz Beer. Back to Bud….Too many innocent people will be loosing their jobs because of the production cuts. This isn’t funny any more. All because of a stupid commercial and the company’s lack of an acceptable apology. The CEO wont be affected money-wise, he has his million$ stashed away, but the production workers and their families will suffer greatly. SMDH
No, it’s never funny about job loss. I do wonder why the bottle makers didn’t have other customers though. If they had exclusive contracts with AB InBev, then they were criminally stupid. Other beer makers are starting to have supply issues since all of Bud’s customers or moving to them now.