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Anheuser-Busch Expects Major Layoffs After It Buys SABMiller (5,500 jobs)
Fortune ^ | August 26, 2016

Posted on 08/28/2016 8:45:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Anheuser-Busch expects to cut some 3% of its combined workforce after it has acquired rival SABMiller, according to takeover documents published on Friday.

That would be some 5,500 jobs, according to a source with information on the offer.

AB is aiming to achieve pre-tax savings of at least $1.4 billion per year within the four years after completion of the takeover through increased efficiency, sharing best practices and the removal of overlaps in corporate and regional headquarters....

(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: beer; layoffs; missouri; unemployment
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1 posted on 08/28/2016 8:45:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Uni-Party, now Uni-Beer.


2 posted on 08/28/2016 8:50:35 PM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Boy do I hate this. Losing a career is hell and I have done it 4 times.

My work has a special statement tomorrow. I hope it isn’t catastrophic. I am in service so it is better protected than product.

I really feel for those losing their jobs.

Make Hay while the grass is green for all of you young ones.


3 posted on 08/28/2016 8:55:55 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Been seeing bud commercials during football saying they welcome “all the many genders” to drink their beer.

Why are companies pandering to an insane less than one percent?!?!?!

It’s not for sales purposes. Must be something else.


4 posted on 08/28/2016 8:56:19 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: eyedigress

FReepmail me if you need help finding a new job. That’s what I did for 20 years.


5 posted on 08/28/2016 8:58:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Am I missing something? How come the US antitrust people aren't all over this?


6 posted on 08/28/2016 9:02:54 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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I’m Ok it’s the Manufacturing taking a hit.

The first time you knew me I was in manufacturing and you were struggling in Biloxi.

I know you, and thank you for remembering me.

I actually moved into a different sector of the company and thank my lucky stars that I did.

I am very glad to see that you are much better off than 6 years ago.

:^)


7 posted on 08/28/2016 9:03:35 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They could do the right thing and buy a few craft beer formulas for fair compensation and produce some decent product for the first time. No, they will attack and buy out the competition so as to avoid competition. Next they will look for federal help in eliminating the craft industry.


8 posted on 08/28/2016 9:05:15 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: RightGeek

Genesee as far as I know is still a US Beer. And for 15 A 30 pack how could you go wrong?


9 posted on 08/28/2016 9:06:58 PM PDT by inchworm
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Went to the SABMiller web page and they have over 200 local brands that are going to be affected by this deal. I guess some of them are going to have to go.
10 posted on 08/28/2016 9:09:49 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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Next they will look for federal help in eliminating the craft industry.


Yup. Fascism. Large politically connected companies use their government connections to drive out competition and innovation.


11 posted on 08/28/2016 9:10:32 PM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anti-Trust laws were good, while they lasted...


12 posted on 08/28/2016 9:22:35 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Flick Lives

Seems to be the way the anti capitalists run.


13 posted on 08/28/2016 9:47:36 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: RightGeek
You need to show a pie chart that includes ALL alcoholic beverages, and maybe all beverages to see if AB will truly have a monopoly.

I think the same thing is happening in the beer industry as what happened in the PC industry: beer sales are stagnating and the only way to increase market share is to merge with other beer companies.

Maybe they could start calling their beer 'Biller'. If I remember right there was an SNL skit based on that.

14 posted on 08/28/2016 9:49:27 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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There are many good beers under the SAB Miller umbrella.
Coors, Blue Moon, Miller, Pabst, and Keystone.

There is massive political correctness under the umbrella, too.

“Our overriding vision is for the principles of diversity and inclusion to be considered so normal in SABMiller, and other company cultures, that LGBT+ employees no longer require a support group.”

Now 99% of normal people will now need a support group.


15 posted on 08/28/2016 10:00:17 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It seems that the anti-monopoly laws are completely ignored these days.


16 posted on 08/28/2016 10:05:15 PM PDT by Tours
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Keystone? KEYSTONE???!!

I’m gonna be sick...sicker than I ever was actually drinking that bilge water!


17 posted on 08/28/2016 10:13:12 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: eyedigress
Boy do I hate this. Losing a career is hell and I have done it 4 times.

Losing 3% of a workforce over 4 years is not that big of a deal. That is less than attrition. If the average career at a company is 40 years (very high in today's world) that would mean about 2.5% per year leave. If the average career is 20 years that is 5% per year.

18 posted on 08/28/2016 10:13:14 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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If the average career at a company is 40 years


Really? I am still working. anybody with that longevity retired long ago.

19 posted on 08/28/2016 10:20:32 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: dp0622
Been seeing bud commercials during football saying they welcome “all the many genders” to drink their beer.

When one is that? I've only seen Bud Light's gay wedding and gender wage gap propaganda commercials.

20 posted on 08/28/2016 10:58:34 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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