Metropoulos and Sons Talk Beer

Dear Client:In his first industry appearance, Pabst Brewing Co. chairman C. Dean Metropoulos described to me in a fireside chat at our Beer Summit how one of his son's had circled a piece in the Wall Street Journal showing that Pabst was for sale. Having made 75 acquisitions over the last 25 years, many of them turnaround brands in consumer goods, Pabst piqued his interest and he made some calls. "There were about fifteen people looking at the deal," Dean