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   On 16 Feb 2022, "state_leper"  posted some   
   news:suk3f9$1ckgp$75@news.freedyn.de:   
      
   > Businesses that lay down with faggots get up with empty wallets and   
   > sore assholes.   
      
   Bud Light’s controversial partnership with transgender influencer Dylan   
   Mulvaney could have been a “strategic” attempt to permanently alter the   
   brand’s audience, according to an anonymous former employee.   
      
   The popular beer brand came under fire in April after a post from   
   Mulvaney’s Instagram account featured a personalized Bud Light can. The   
   backlash against the brand in response to partnering with the transgender   
   figure led to a massive slump in sales.   
      
   Though the company’s CEO insisted in a statement that it “never intended   
   to be part of a discussion that divides people,” the ex-Anheuser-Busch   
   worker suggested that the move was intentional.   
      
   “[Employees] expressed the fact that they were shocked. ‘Why would they do   
   this? What were they thinking?’ Especially now. This is the worst; it’s   
   like the worst time yet, the best timing yet if a company were trying to   
   change the way it operates from a corporate level. And that’s just my   
   opinion,” he said to OutKick’s Tomi Lahren.   
      
   “Many of us are talking about that like they planned it in a way … like a   
   strategic destruction of Bud Light.”   
      
   The whistleblower stated on “Tomi Lahren Is Fearless” that “nobody’s   
   happy” about the fall in sales and “everybody” considers the move a “very   
   bad idea.” However, on the corporate level, he claimed that this could   
   have been part of a strategy to undermine the American company.   
      
   “When the company was bought over by InBev, a lot of things changed [from]   
   when it was owned by Anheuser-Busch. You know, it’s an American brand,”   
   the whistleblower remarked.   
      
   He explained that the company previously offered many benefits prior to   
   its purchase by InBev. Through the fall in sales for the Bud Light brand,   
   the former employee stated, the corporation could restructure both   
   employee benefits and its company standards through layoffs and   
   renegotiating contracts.   
      
   “Bud Light has been failing for many years. We’ve talked about that for   
   many years. The numbers of just, you know, little by little deteriorated.   
   And it feels like they said, ‘Let’s put this nail in the coffin,'” he   
   said. “Now we have a lot of layoffs, a lot of loss in production. It would   
   be easy for them to restructure, let’s say, pay or contracts.”   
      
   “It’s too obvious that they wouldn’t just mistakenly do this and not   
   expect these repercussions. Anybody could tell you what was going to   
   happen,” he commented.   
      
   NiselsenIQ data provided to Fox Business by Bump Williams Consulting   
   showed that for the week ending June 3, Bud Light sales were down 24.4%   
   compared to a year ago. Over the last four weeks ending June 3, the data   
   showed Bud Light sales were down 24.6% relative to the same period last   
   year.   
      
   Most recently, Bud Light lost its title as the No. 1-selling beer brand in   
   dollar sales to Modelo Especial, losing the spot for the first time in   
   over two decades.   
      
   “I’m angry at the company on the corporate level just because they had to   
   have known that this was going to happen. And they let it happen,” the   
   whistleblower remarked.   
      
   He concluded, “As for why, it’s all just speculation, but from previous   
   years and the way they tried to take away the way the company is run from   
   the past to now, it’s not the same company it was when I started.”   
      
   Charles Stockdale   
   16 June, 2023   
      
   I don’t buy the idea that top corporate leadership sought to shake up the   
   company through the Mulvaney debacle.  Their obligation to maximize the   
   value of their shareholders’ holdings is too clear and important for that   
   theory to make sense.  The more likely explanation is simply that senior   
   executives failed to adequately supervise the actions of younger and   
   lower-level executives.   
      
   Hawk1958   
   16 June, 2023   
      
   InBev loss of market capitalization exceed $24B since the failed LGBTQ+   
   marketing campaign began.   
      
   If a whistleblower comes forward with credible evidence the corporation   
      
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