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Bud Light is ‘coming back’ but controversy is a ‘wake-up call,’ Anheuser-Busch exec says
CNN ^ | 6/20/23 | Matt Egan

Posted on 06/21/2023 11:54:18 AM PDT by DallasBiff

CMO Anheuser-Busch USA Marcel Marcondes speaks at the Cannes Lions International Festival June 20, 2019 in Cannes, France.

New York CNN —

Anheuser-Busch InBev’s top marketing executive is speaking out following a monthslong boycott of Bud Light that has cost the brand its title as America’s top-selling beer.

“When things get divisive and controversial so easily, I think it’s an important wake-up call to all of us marketers to be very humble,” said Marcel Marcondes, Anheuser-Busch’s global chief marketing officer, at a conference on Monday.

Bud Light sales have tumbled since the company’s partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney sparked an anti-trans backlash and calls for a boycott. The company’s tepid response angered LGBTQ+ advocates, and the episode became ground zero in America’s culture wars.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: beer; budlight; cnn; propaganda; queerbeer
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To: Yo-Yo

” They’re catering to the “woke” left because they are afraid of the consequences from the radical left if they don’t.”

What consequences? Do you think there are enough noodle-arm, soi-boi potheads in Portland and San Fran to right the bud light beer sinking ship?


81 posted on 06/21/2023 3:29:13 PM PDT by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: Cuttnhorse

They were raised this way and then it was hardened in college.


82 posted on 06/21/2023 3:43:45 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Codeflier

Have patience. The pendulum always swings back, even if it takes time.


83 posted on 06/21/2023 3:44:24 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DallasBiff

They can’t just simply say they made a mistake.


84 posted on 06/21/2023 3:50:55 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: cornfedcowboy

Why not?

Denying the truth works for the most powerful people in the Nation.


85 posted on 06/21/2023 3:53:03 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: 1Old Pro

I expect it is. Most people can’t remember what they did 2 hours ago.


86 posted on 06/21/2023 4:30:30 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: CatOwner

“You’ve quoted a post that was not made by me.”

Sorry friend.


87 posted on 06/25/2023 6:31:29 PM PDT by KingLudd
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