Anheuser-Busch exec offers flat apology following Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney backlash

The New York Post ^ | April 14, 2023 | Ariel Zilber

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Anheuser-Busch’s top executive on Friday offered an apology flatter than a day-old Bud Light as the beer giant reels from the backlash over its sponsorship deal with controversial transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

“We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people,” Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Brendan Whitworth said.

“We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.”

Whitworth’s statement made no mention of the sponsorship deal with Mulvaney — which has led to calls for a boycott of the nation’s largest beer company.

He also didn’t address reports that senior executives were kept in the dark about the Mulvaney rollout.

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They could pick up the old Subway guy, I bet he’d love a new job!

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A $5 BILLION loss of market value in less than 2 weeks? I think we got their attention. I don’t think A-B, an in turn InBev, is going to recover from that for a while.

That doesn't mean anything. Wait for the next couple quarterly reports / annual statements and compare that to the last few. Then we'll know if they're actually hurting.

I would help, but I've avoided them (and their 'craft' subsidiaries) since they sold themselves to foreigners.