New A-B Releases Hold on Draft Equipment

Dear Client: Anheuser-Busch, or what we've been stying the "new A-B", continues to surprise distributors with policy changes that seem to relinquish its long-held tight grip of distributors. The latest: A-B vp - sales Evan Athanas sent a memo to distributors last week, handed to BBD in a dark alley by a Truth Squader, which proclaimed that A-B will no longer be a supplier of exclusive draft equipment to their distributor partners. Starting at the end of August, A-B distributors