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A-B responds to Bud Light controversy: ‘One single can’ sent to one influencer
St Louis Post Dispatch ^ | May 3, 2023 | Daniel Neman

Posted on 05/03/2023 12:02:08 PM PDT by Morgana

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To: nickcarraway
365 of them to celebrate his “365 days of pretending to be a six year old girl named Eloise". I am not joking.
81 posted on 05/03/2023 1:06:54 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: Morgana

You made your bed AB now live with it.

P0


82 posted on 05/03/2023 1:12:36 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: Morgana

I assume, then, that AB will be suing him for the damage done to its brand?


83 posted on 05/03/2023 1:13:08 PM PDT by mykroar (what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. - J0eStalin)
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To: Morgana

and how many articles have there been about AB?

anyone keeping track

seems to be several a day


84 posted on 05/03/2023 1:22:11 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Morgana

They got the attention they wanted for the “one can”... they just misunderstood the impact of mocking their brands main consumer.


85 posted on 05/03/2023 1:25:09 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: William of Barsoom

It could have just been a single shrink wrap. That’s probably how they produce marketing models before reprogramming the production line.


86 posted on 05/03/2023 1:25:34 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Morgana
Almost sounds like they threw Dylan under the bus.

Did that seriously injure or kill Dylan?

87 posted on 05/03/2023 1:28:16 PM PDT by ytrebil
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To: Morgana

Where have I heard this excuse before... oh yeah.

“Just the tip”


88 posted on 05/03/2023 1:31:06 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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To: Morgana

AB Spokesman: Although all the animals have escaped into the wild we still have control of the zoo.


89 posted on 05/03/2023 1:31:47 PM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: Morgana

“a new VP of Bud Light marketing has been announced.”

LOL!!


90 posted on 05/03/2023 1:33:11 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.)
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To: Valpal1
It could have just been a single shrink wrap. That’s probably how they produce marketing models before reprogramming the production line.

I never saw one mock-up of any product container. There are different groups that need copies: the marketing team, the print ad photographers, the ad video camera team, the hand model team, the packaging team, the store merchandising team, etc.

They may have only sent him one but they made a bunch for internal review before doing so.

91 posted on 05/03/2023 1:34:53 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Morgana

There was more than a single can - there was at least a full six pack. A small lie, but a lie nonetheless.


92 posted on 05/03/2023 1:35:37 PM PDT by MortMan (The Republic committed suicide.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

” Shouldn’t have sent the can to the mentally unbalanced man who dresses like a woman.”

Really. With normal influencers in the world, they chose to send it to HIM. Why not Ted Nugent or James Woods?


93 posted on 05/03/2023 1:36:03 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.)
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To: MrRelevant

They might has well have put FJB’s ugly old face on that can. Would have been the same result. They consciously decided to politicize their brand. Now it will die. These delusionals like to pretend that their BS is not political. It was made political by their leader and savior, Joe Sniffer Biden.


94 posted on 05/03/2023 1:41:57 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: Morgana

“Influencer” - leftist word for stark raving mad, cross-dressing lunatic.

Seems the influence went in a direction that the woke-blinded “leaders” didn’t anticipate.

My favorite beverage store has NO Budweiser products in the cooler or on the shelf. Still has other AB products for now, but that could change as people realize what the left is trying to do TO us and our children.


95 posted on 05/03/2023 1:45:43 PM PDT by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: Morgana

Without acknowledging and truly apologizing for this situation don’t expect the trajectory of sales to change.

“We didn’t mean for it to blow up in our faces”.. while a true statement, doesn’t change anything.

“In reality, the Bud Light can posted by a social media influencer that sparked all the conversation was provided by an outside agency without Anheuser-Busch management awareness or approval,”

While this may also be a true statement it doesn’t change the fact the can was made, and you haven’t distance yourself or your company in any way from this sicko.

This is a man who pantomimes being a woman to an audience of children and teenagers, you should be apologizing to everyone for ever allowing your product to be associated in any way with this.

Yet you STILL haven’t apologized for it, because you are afraid to state the truth.

Being sorry you created a firestorm, is not the same as being sorry for what you did that create it. Whether intentional or not.

Want to change the narrative and pivot you need to take a stand... by refusing to you just ensure the direction of your beer sales will continue downwared.

If I ran Bud I’d be apologizing for letting my brand become in any way associated with this individual. He is free to live his life however he wants, but we do not agree and do not promote men pantomiming being women to children and teens.

Need to have the testicular fortitude to stand up to the lavender mafia, and the woke left and say... No he is not a woman, and while free to live his life however he feels, we want no part of it. We are sorry our brand was in any way involved with this insanity and we will never ever let it happen again.

We have worked tirelessly for generations to be the beer hard working men and women want to enjoy at the end of the day, and we are deeply sorry that our brand was in any way associated with this freak show.

If they did that the left woke mob would go insane against them and if they truly stood up and had a back bone and didn’t back down and continued to speak the truth and take the heat for it from these fools they would be able to pivot and probably win their lost drinkers back and then some... but they won’t.. because that would take balls.


96 posted on 05/03/2023 1:47:36 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Morgana

blah blah blah woke bs.


97 posted on 05/03/2023 1:55:42 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Morgana

“was provided by an outside agency without Anheuser-Busch management awareness or approval”

Then why did they put A-B marketing executives on leave?


98 posted on 05/03/2023 1:58:56 PM PDT by plmrrsn
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To: T.B. Yoits
No one runs a business with the intention of having sales drop 26% (so far). No one builds a successful brand name only to trash it and be forced to create a whole new one to replace it.

Yes, but it is but one brand among hundreds is my point. Does it sting initially, yeah, over the long haul, with the short attention span of the average American consumer, I doubt that it has as much impact as everyone here seems to hope it will.

I'm perfectly happy to be wrong about that, but again, Bud Light is but one among hundreds of arrows in their quiver.

99 posted on 05/03/2023 2:01:33 PM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: Morgana
"In reality, the Bud Light can posted by a social media influencer that sparked all the conversation was provided by an outside agency without Anheuser-Busch management awareness or approval".
Considering the damage this has done to AB-InBevs stock price and the reduction in sales, I would think a law suit for copyright / trade mark infringement would be in order. When AV-InBev files suit we'll find out who the outside party was.
Or they could just be lying.
100 posted on 05/03/2023 2:04:21 PM PDT by radmanptn
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