A-B Sells Newark Brewery, Shutters Fairfield and Merrimack; Production to Shift Across Network

Dear Client:  Anheuser-Busch is making some big moves to its brewery footprint, announcing today that it will sell its Newark, NJ facility to property development company, the Goodman Group, and close its Fairfield, CA and Merrimack, NH breweries in early 2026. The decisions come amid a multi-year effort to modernize and streamline the company’s U.S. manufacturing footprint, A-B says, having pumped “nearly $2 billion” into upgrades across its 100 U.S. facilities over the last five years, with “more than $300