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A-B Steps Up Support for 3-Tier

Anheuser-Busch, Inc. president August A. Busch IV sent a letter to distributors yesterday reiterating A-B's unqualified support for the three-tier system, reminding distributors that A-B was the first to grant exclusive territories in 1982. ABIV writes that A-B "is strongly supporting and defending the middle tier," just 48 hours after BBD suggested that we could not count on brewer support. Shows what we know.At the same time, the Beer Institute filed an amicus brief on Thursday before the U.S. Supreme

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