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Bud Light

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Bud Light is a light lager beer brand and one of the best-selling beers in the United States. It is a brand of Anheuser-Busch, a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev, founded in 1982 and headquartered in St. Louis.

We dig behind Bud Light's stated narrative to unravel the real strategy — the calls that actually shaped it, and why they played out the way they did.

Crisis & Reinvention
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Company profile

Industry
Brewing
Founded
1982
Headquarters
St. Louis, United States
Ownership
Brand of Anheuser-Busch, a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev

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The Crisis Response · Crisis & Reinvention
Bud Light's Both-Sides Non-Answer Turned One Instagram Post Into a $1.4 Billion Hole
A single Instagram post triggered a two-week storm. AB InBev's both-sides non-answer turned it into a $1.4 billion hole that, two years on, still hasn't closed - and Modelo was already winning anyway.
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