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Much attention has been paid--and rightly so--to craft and imported beers lately. Craft sales grew 12 percent in 2007 and imports expanded 3.6 percent, according to Cheers parent, The Beverage [...]

Byline: James Wilmore MillerCoors has confirmed it will introduce a new strong beer and high abv hard cider in the US next year. The beer, Miller Fortune, will have an [...]

Three of Anheuser-Busch's can filling lines at its Houston, TX, facility were upgraded to enhance product quality and maximize productivity. Anheuser Busch is the manufacturer of nine beer brands including Budweiser, which is considered the largest selling beer in the world. New Fleetwood Automatic Lid Feed (ALF) systems with fully automated can end debaggers and depalletizers were installed in the company's three can filling lines. The new technology has proven to be effective in reducing the company's labor costs as well., Anheuser-Busch upgrades three can filling lines at its Houston plant with can end debaggers and depalletizers that supply lightweighted ends at speeds up to 1,850 ends/min. Seamer receives ends in [...]

The packaging of Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc's Michelob beer has been changed several times to adopt to the product's light-sensitivity as well as to enhance merchandising efficiency. The beer bottle has been changed from a conventional round bottle to a faceted flint glass bottle. In addition, the six-pack has been fitted with recloseable flaps which can be locked down over the bottle caps to produce a sturdier carrier as well as protect the package from light penetration., Anheuser-Busch's Michelob Golden Draft in faceted flint glass bottles is protected from light and breakage by a six-pack carrier with reclosable flaps. Every marketer puts much time and thought into [...]

ANHEUSER-BUSCH will double its capacity for aluminum bottle packaging by the fall and will debut a silver metal bottle version of Budweiser Select in some markets starting next month-the sixth [...]

Anheuser-Busch has announced will double its capacity for aluminum bottle packaging by the fall and will debut a silver metal bottle version of Budweiser Select in some markets starting next [...]

CHICAGO -- Anheuser-Busch will double its capacity for aluminum bottle packaging by the fall and will debut a silver metal bottle version of Budweiser Select in some markets starting next [...]

Bud Lite is out with a new summer look: an aluminum bottle dressed with the beer's logo and a cobalt high-gloss finish. Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Bud, said the sleek [...]

Anheuser-Busch is now offering 16-ounce bottles of Michelob, Michelob Light and Anheuser World Select in limited markets. The new bottles are made by Exal USA, based in Youngstown, OH. The [...]

With the acknowledgement that previous industry projections for unit volumes of 400-700mn units in North America by the end of this year were 'aggressive,' Gordon Bockner, president of Business Development [...]

PET market beginning to brew ACNielsen data show beer in plastic holds a 0.1-share in supermarkets, drug and mass (52 weeks through mid-April). These figures don't reflect sales in arenas [...]

Michelob has introduced embossed 'golf ball' cans for Michelob and Michelob Light. A percentage of the proceeds from sales of the cans through Aug. 31 will go to PGA TOUR [...]

BIC, Milford, CT, 203-783-2000, is getting ready for the 50th anniversary of its core product--the BIC Cristal ball pen, which revolutionized the writing instruments category. To celebrate, BIC is launching [...]

Michelob AmberBock, Anheuser-Busch's best-selling specialty brand, will now be made available in 16- ounce, fiber-wrapped four-packs It's the first package type to be sold in the US, according to the [...]

Brewers are looking at packaging developments to expand their leading brands and, as Mike Dennis reports, this year has seen the arrival of some unusual bottles and cans Major new [...]

Budweiser is commemorating the millennium with the biggest special packaging in its 124-year history and a limited-edition magnum bottle. The packaging features a turn-of-the-century look with script type and gold [...]

THE MUCH vaunted special relationship between the US and the UK goes way beyond Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. Take, for instance, brewing giant Anheuser-Busch's move to brew and bottle [...]

In summers gone by, Anheuser-Busch has added a patriotic touch to the Budweiser packaging design with graphics rich in stars and stripes. This year, the brand owner took a new [...]

Metal containers are turning up in some unusual shapes and some surprising places. As alternatives to beer bottles. Shaped like soccer balls. Even, soon, in the microwave. The versatility of [...]

It may not lake an air-to-air missile designer to develop successful consumer goods packaging, but it certainly doesn't hurt to be one. Jay Gouliard can testify to that. A former [...]

Pressing its 'born-on' freshness dating to the max, Anheuser-Busch plans to give some beer drinkers a chance to buy Budweiser and Bud Light the same day it was packaged. The [...]

Anheuser-Busch bottling plant has improved labeling and packaging production lines. Description of new labels and labeling machine is given.

New graphics featuring improved color definition and greater product imagery will be introduced this month on 12-pack and suitcase packaging for Anheuser-Busch, Inc.'s Busch and Busch Light beer. Two cans [...]

In support of a new national advertising campaign that plays up the 'drinkability' of Bud Light, St. Louis, Mo.-based Anheuser-Busch, a unit of Anheuser-Busch InBev, unveiled new labels for Bud [...]

Rebuilt unit allowed its New Hampshire plant to easily increase its can production. Packer gives dealers a convenient, easily split 24-pack. By adding a tray-packing machine and a rebuilt 12-packer [...]

Anheuser-Busch and the Environment Norman Nieder, group director of Anheuser-Busch's packaging technology group and a vice president of the National Beverage Packaging Association, delivered a paper to the 1990 Scrap [...]

NEW YORK -- For many members of the core audience for America's brewing companies, football and beer go hand in hand. It comes as little surprise, then, that two of [...]

Anheuser-Busch Cos., St. Louis, has begun a national rollout of Budweiser in aluminum bottles during May, according to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The 16-ounce aluminum containers have [...]

Anheuser-Busch is launching a new 24-pack of its low-carb lager, Michelob Ultra, in Tesco Extra stores. The launch of the new pack is being supported with poster advertising outside supermarkets [...]

Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. is planning to sell its popular Michelob Ultra low carbohydrate beer in 12 ounce cans starting in January, the company has said. The brand, which was released [...]

Put your hand on my shoulders, sing Michelob and Michelob Light. Anheuser-Busch's upscale pair hope to feel many palms reaching for them in their new sloped shoulder bottles, part of [...]

In a radical departure from the brand's familiar teardrop-shaped vessel, Anheuser-Busch is rolling out new sloped-shoulder bottles and secondary packaging for Michelob and Michelob Light. Beginning this month, the new [...]

ANHEUSER-BUSCH, St. Louis, 314-577-2000, has introduced golf-themed cans and secondary packaging for Michelob and Michelob Light through Sept. 16. The 12 oz. cans feature embossed Michelob and Michelob Light logos [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Anheuser-Busch has rolled out three new commemorative 16-ounce cans for the summer. The cans (pictured above, left to right) (1) highlight the brand's relation hip with Dale [...]

Anheuser-Busch has two packaging innovations on tap: As of March 15, the beer giant is test marketing its multilayer PET beer bottle for Bud and Bud Light. The 16-ounce, amber-colored [...]

Anheuser-Busch has redesigned the packaging for King Cobra Premium Malt Liquor, giving the brand 'new contemporary graphics' to herald the return of the 'familiar cobra symbol.' Senior brand manager Brian [...]

Michelob Golden Draft beer from Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. will be available in new packaging that protects the product from light. Market research found that many consumers liked clear bottles instead of brown bottles, but the brown bottles keep light from affecting the all-natural hops in the beer. The new Light-Tite packaging provides a light-controlled atmosphere, resealable flaps to protect unused bottles and a larger advertising space. Anheuser-Busch hopes to convey an upscale image with this new bottling and packaging.

Anheuser-Busch, Inc., and Bud Dry have introduced new 12-pack and suitcase packages to help move the brand during the holiday season, a spokesperson for the brewer reported. 'The |seasonal~ packages [...]

Anheuser-Busch's (A-B) new beer cans are identical to their old cans, except that the new cans' lids have a 1/8-inch smaller diameter. A-B uses over 17 billion cans a year, and the new design will reduce the yearly amount of aluminum used in their production by 20 million pounds. Except for a machine-tooling change, the production process for the new cans is identical to that for the old cans.

Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc (A-B) will test market new fluted beverage cans and bottles for its Michelob Golden Draft brand of beer. The fluted metal cans have beveled edges for strength and are produced by American National Can Co. The beveled-edged glass bottles are produced by Anchor Glass Container Corp. A-B hopes the new packaging will increase brand identity and impart a sense of quality and tradition to consumers.

Bud family sees new secondary packaging The Budweiser family of beers, Budweiser, Bud Light and Bud Dry, has announced the introduction of bold new 'super graphics' on all of its [...]

Busch, Busch Light introduce new design on suitcases New suitcase and 12-pack package graphics with eye-catching consumer appeal were recently unveiled by Busch and Busch Light beers and will soon [...]