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Bud Light sales continue to plummet after transgender marketing controversy
St Louis Post Dispatch ^ | May 1, 2023 | Daniel Neman

Posted on 05/01/2023 2:42:45 PM PDT by Morgana

ST. LOUIS — Sales of Bud Light have been plunging since the company enlisted the help of transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in a marketing campaign a month ago.

In the week that ended April 22, the brand's in-store sales plummeted more than 26%, according to figures reported by Bump Williams Consulting, a Connecticut-based firm that specializes in the alcoholic beverage industry.

And the decline is only accelerating. The week before, sales dropped by 21%. The week before that, it was 11%.

Bud Light is still the best-selling beer in America by far, said Bump Williams, the founder, president and CEO of the agency that bears his name. In 2022, Anheuser-Busch InBev sold more than $4.8 billion worth of it in stores, he said, far outpacing Modelo Especial ($3.75 billion) and Michelob Ultra ($3.3 billion).

But if the company can't stop the decline in sales, especially as the peak beer-drinking summer season approaches, "then Bud Light is in serious trouble this year. And I think it runs the risk of losing that No. 1 position at the end of calendar year 2023 to Modelo Especial," Williams said.

Already, sales are off 8% for the year.

In early April, Anheuser-Busch sent a can of Bud Light to the 26-year-old Mulvaney with a picture of her face on it. The influencer posted a brief video of herself on TikTok — in black gown and black gloves — drinking a Bud Light, noting that the promotion was part of March Madness and joking that she did not know what sport that was for.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: beer; queerbeer
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30 days and not going away any time soon. AB really thought it's customers were that stupid.
1 posted on 05/01/2023 2:42:45 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

I have stayed up at night worrying over this.


2 posted on 05/01/2023 2:43:53 PM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest

I have laughed my ass off all night over this.


3 posted on 05/01/2023 2:44:52 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Morgana

I guess neither one of us has slept then.


4 posted on 05/01/2023 2:46:30 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Morgana

Get woke, go broke.


5 posted on 05/01/2023 2:46:49 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Morgana

Went to a local seafood restaurant over the weekend. I celebrated with a cold Yuengling. . . it sure went down good. . . .


6 posted on 05/01/2023 2:47:27 PM PDT by RatRipper
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To: Morgana

The creep demeans and belittles women with his looks. Then, while pretending to be a woman, he further demeans and belittles women by giggling “I do not know what sport that [i.e., March Madness] was for.”

It is a disgusting, horrendous act. Why is his act not labeled a HATE Crime against all women by the hate crime mob?


7 posted on 05/01/2023 2:47:46 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: Morgana

Good news catch. Thx.


8 posted on 05/01/2023 2:48:11 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: Morgana

Ha! Let the trannies drink Bum Light.


9 posted on 05/01/2023 2:48:13 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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Great question!

Where are the so-called feminazis????

They should be marching, over this. Not supporting it.


10 posted on 05/01/2023 2:49:21 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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I will never buy an AB product.

Sure would like to get my hands on some for free to destroy.


11 posted on 05/01/2023 2:49:51 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: EliRoom8

Well this news is coming out of St Louis so you just know that town is losing business over this mess.


12 posted on 05/01/2023 2:50:21 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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where is the dylan tv commercial?
(dylan in the girls in the rain commercial to the tune of its raining men)

is AB ashamed of dylan?

let HRC know


13 posted on 05/01/2023 2:50:24 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Morgana

What does it say about the beer drinking habits of Americans when Bud Light is the #1 selling beer in America followed by Modelo Especial.

Modelo Especial is okay but the #2 selling brand in America, really...


14 posted on 05/01/2023 2:51:55 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Morgana

Dos Equis lager. My favorite.


15 posted on 05/01/2023 2:51:58 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Morgana

The actual violence and sabotage that trans activists use against non-supporters is starting to seriously turn many people against them.


16 posted on 05/01/2023 2:53:21 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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The bad news I read this morning is that Crest Toothpaste is using the Mulvaney creep. I’ve been using Crest for 30 or 40 years. Damn them.


17 posted on 05/01/2023 2:55:45 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: SauronOfMordor

an entire aisle in my super market is devoted to beer...at the end of the aisle...is a huge bud display...untouched....lol


18 posted on 05/01/2023 2:56:21 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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Where are the so-called feminazis???

The feminists are very fierce against polite gentlemen.

Against trans activists who threaten to beat women bloody for daring to disagree with them, the fierce feminists become rather subdued.

19 posted on 05/01/2023 2:58:57 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: srmanuel
Modelo Especial is okay but the #2 selling brand in America, really...

Also owned by InBev. Miller Coors and Guiness have been pro-perv for a long time. Where available, go with Yuengling. Where not available go local/independent. I take 805 in Phoenix, AZ.
20 posted on 05/01/2023 2:59:52 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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