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February 01, 2024, 02:07 PM
Fenris
This Bud's for who???
quote:
Originally posted by GT-40DOC:
A-B is trying every trick in the book to try and gain market share back.......don't think it is working. The last few days they want to show you the Super Bowl commercials(early) with the Clydesdales. This is sooooo obvious!!!

Only this time B-L will feature a Holstein that identifies as a Clydesdale.




God Bless and Protect our Beloved President, Donald John Trump.
February 01, 2024, 06:11 PM
sse
The only thing bad about this is that the sales are only down by 28%, which I do find a little hard to believe.
February 01, 2024, 08:00 PM
jed7s9b
I know there are now virtually no BL cans tossed out the window along the stretch of road along which I live. Mexican beers, Fireball, and gas station food seems to dominate among the trashy hoards.


“That’s what.” - She
February 07, 2024, 08:28 AM
honestlou
Trump says to give AB a second chance. BUD stock is rising with this news. By the way, while Bud Light sales are still down, the company as a whole is doing as well as ever. The stock has fully recovered.

“The Bud Light ad was a mistake of epic proportions, and for that a very big price was paid, but Anheuser-Busch is not a Woke company,” Trump wrote. “Anheuser-Busch is a Great American Brand that perhaps deserves a Second Chance? What do you think? Perhaps, instead, we should be going after those companies that are looking to DESTROY AMERICA!”

Link: https://www.nationalreview.com...-busch-lobbyist/amp/
February 07, 2024, 08:37 AM
nhtagmember
on this I disagree with President trump

AB most certainly is a 'woke' company. Their ad campaign did two things

firstly, it bought into the faggot, queer and freak show with their campaign

secondly, and most importantly, if they were looking at a woman for their spokesperson, they basically said that out of 52% of the entire worlds population, they couldn't find a single woman on this planet to represent their brand and they 'had' to use a queer - that's a huge insult to women

AB does NOT deserve a second chance any more than any other company that turns its back on 99% of the population of this country to push an agenda
February 07, 2024, 08:38 AM
chellim1
quote:
Trump says to give AB a second chance.

The former president also said the massive beer company spends $700 million a year on U.S. farmers, employs 65,000 workers, and provides scholarships to U.S. students.

Trump’s message arrived just before Jeff Miller, a top Republican lobbyist for Anheuser-Busch, announced that he will be hosting a fundraiser for the former president next month. Anheuser Busch paid Miller’s firm $260,000 in 2023, according to lobbying disclosure forms reviewed by Politico.

Miller, who built his lobbying business during the Trump years, announced Tuesday on X that he would be hosting the Washington, D.C. fundraiser. The event is set to feature over a hundred members of Congress, as well as special guest Donald Trump, Jr. Tickets for the event range from $1,000 to $10,000 each.



"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor
February 07, 2024, 09:24 AM
12131
Did they ever apologize for their shit? Didn't think so.


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February 07, 2024, 09:29 AM
parabellum
I don't agree with anyone on everything. This is true. Never have I met or have been aware of any person with whom I agree on every single thing.

Donald Trump may be striving to save American jobs. Whatever the case, it doesn't matter. I don't believe there is a single Trump supporter out there who would change their opinion of the man over this, nor do I believe Trump's encouragement would compel anyone to buy Budweiser products.

To put it succinctly, it just doesn't matter.
February 07, 2024, 10:59 AM
honestlou
I actually agree with Trump in that I don't think ABInBev is a woke company with an agenda. The woman who did this was removed from her position, as was her boss. After it was done they were in a pickle, just trying not to make the situation worse.

Should they have apologized? Perhaps. If they had, what would have become of the company as a whole? I don't think it is a good business decision for any major company with customers across the political spectrum, to take a stance on a political issue. At that point they were just taking cover and trying not to make it worse.

I don't think this is a case of a company being woke and getting caught. I think it's a case of an employee going too far, with a fallout that was obviously not anticipated.

I am actually amazed that the stock (BUD) is up $1.75 on this news. Does the market really think Trump's "endorsement" is going to bring back the 30% of business they lost?
February 07, 2024, 11:31 AM
rizzle
[QUOTE]Originally posted by honestlou:

I am actually amazed that the stock (BUD) is up $1.75 on this news. Does the market really think Trump's "endorsement" is going to bring back the 30% of business they lost?[/QUOTE

Hedge funds control stock values (short sellers), it's not how the company is performing. They will short a stock and then buy it back, just a big money game.
February 07, 2024, 11:35 AM
Fenris
The point is not only to teach AB a lesson, but also for them to serve as an object lesson to other companies.

One day, they may recover their market share, but they will never recover their lost sales. That's beer under the bridge.




God Bless and Protect our Beloved President, Donald John Trump.
February 07, 2024, 01:44 PM
erj_pilot
quote:
Originally posted by nhtagmember:
on this I disagree with President trump

AB most certainly is a 'woke' company. Their ad campaign did two things

firstly, it bought into the faggot, queer and freak show with their campaign

secondly, and most importantly, if they were looking at a woman for their spokesperson, they basically said that out of 52% of the entire worlds population, they couldn't find a single woman on this planet to represent their brand and they 'had' to use a queer - that's a huge insult to women

AB does NOT deserve a second chance any more than any other company that turns its back on 99% of the population of this country to push an agenda



I've stated it previously, but Bud Light's train stop into a little town called Queerville with that piece of trash as their spokesMAN turned me into a Guinness Draught drinker. And guess what? Bud Light could give their shit away for FREE and I STILL wouldn't touch it. Those phukktards couldn't even PAY ME to drink it now...

FTATHTRIO!!!



"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
February 07, 2024, 01:53 PM
83v45magna
quote:
Originally posted by honestlou:
I am actually amazed that the stock (BUD) is up $1.75 on this news. Does the market really think Trump's "endorsement" is going to bring back the 30% of business they lost?

I don't think even the Donald believes his statement will do much. Now he can tell them he tried and I think that was the point of it.

They (Bud) have recovered what they can for now. Now they have to see if they can get back any of the market share they threw down the toilet.

Maybe the King of Inbev can thrill the people with another statement about how the U.S. isn't even their primary market.
February 07, 2024, 02:22 PM
Ryanp225
Fuck AB and fuck their gay-supremacist agenda pushing bullshit.
February 07, 2024, 02:30 PM
doublesharp
This ad gonna bring you back? Didn't think so. Razz




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February 07, 2024, 02:31 PM
vthoky
quote:
Originally posted by erj_pilot:
me ... a Guinness Draught drinker.


Attaboy! Cool




God bless America.
February 07, 2024, 02:32 PM
erj_pilot
quote:
Originally posted by doublesharp:
This ad gonna bring you back? Didn't think so. Razz

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quote:
Originally posted by vthoky:
Attaboy! Cool
Big Grin Big Grin



"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
February 07, 2024, 02:38 PM
Angus the Kid
Never alienate your customers when they buy your poor to mediocre product.

Seldom do boycotts last this long. Why has this one?....because Bud light is not a good tasting beer. Not even close. It never was a good beer but people bought it out of habit and a sense of brand loyalty. Once people started drinking other beers during the boycott this fact hit them right in the taste buds. They have not returned to drinking that swill.



"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
February 07, 2024, 03:42 PM
chellim1
quote:
Seldom do boycotts last this long. Why has this one?....because Bud light is not a good tasting beer. Not even close. It never was a good beer but people bought it out of habit and a sense of brand loyalty. Once people started drinking other beers during the boycott this fact hit them right in the taste buds. They have not returned to drinking that swill.

Well, I don't think that's really it...
Is it special? No, of course not. It's a light lager, or a pilsner and none of them are special. It's not great, but not terrible.

Sure, people bought it based on (previously) terrific marketing and a sense of brand loyalty. Once that went away... they discovered there were others out that that were just as good and weren't embarrassing to buy or be seen drinking.



"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor
February 07, 2024, 03:54 PM
Jim Shugart
Like making love in a canoe...fucking close to water.



When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw