Top Legal, Government Affairs Exec Abruptly Leaves A-B

This is big news, folks. We had been hearing rumors of changes in A-B's government affairs arena, but didn't imagine it was at the top. Anheuser-Busch announced that Mark Bobak, 48, group vp and chief legal officer of the corporation will resign "to start his own firm." A-B will replace him with Gary Rutledge, 52, who formerly was vp of corporate labor relations and heads the company's litigation practice. Gary will run legal, government affairs and labor relations areas, effective