{"id":5006,"date":"2023-08-18T11:56:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2023-08-18T11:56:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:56:47","slug":"make-that-brand-great-again-anheuser-busch-heir-offers-to-buy-back-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5006","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Make That Brand Great Again&#8217;: Anheuser-Busch Heir Offers to Buy Back Company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anheuser-Busch heir Billy Busch has expressed interest in buying his family\u2019s former beer company if the parent company wants to sell it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Busch&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Outkick\/status\/1691796964592247057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a>&nbsp;Outkick host Tomi Lahren on her segment \u201cTomi Lahren is Fearless\u201d that he would be open to buying back&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ijr.com\/dylan-mulvaney-breaks-silence-amid-boycott-of-bud-light\/\">Bud Light<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ijr.com\/anheuser-busch-execs-hit-bad-news-bud-light-sales-not\/\">parent company<\/a>&nbsp;AB InBev, vouching to buy the brand back if he could and that he would \u201cmake that brand great again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI urge that company, InBev if they don\u2019t want that brand any longer, sell it back to the Busch family,\u201d Busch said. \u201cSell it to me. I\u2019ll be the first in line to buy that brand back from you, and we\u2019ll make that brand great again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After Bud Light\u2019s epic collapse, Anheuser-Busch Heir Billy Busch tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomiLahren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TomiLahren<\/a> he wants to buy the company BACK from InBev, and Make Bud Light Great Again! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1vKUNoSJ5g\">pic.twitter.com\/1vKUNoSJ5g<\/a><\/p>&mdash; OutKick (@Outkick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Outkick\/status\/1691796964592247057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Busch explained how he feels that InBev \u201cdoesn\u2019t understand who their core\u201d drinkers are, adding that it was a \u201cBrazilian-based company.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy family, in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Reins-Extraordinary-American-Dynasty\/dp\/B0BRRNV29P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Family Reins<\/a>\u201d I talk about the history of my family,\u201d Busch said. \u201cOne of the things they did, they got out on trucks, they got out and met with their customers, they knew who their drinkers were. They were with the bar owners and the restaurant owners, and the liquor store owners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Busch continued to point out how even when his father started to get older, \u201che was still going to the bars selling Budweiser.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bud Light has continued to face&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ijr.com\/bud-lights-partnership-trans-influencer-100-percent-woke-free-beer-option-launches\/\">boycotts<\/a>&nbsp;and sharp criticism months after featuring a commemorative can featuring transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the months following Bud Light\u2019s partnership with Mulvaney, multiple executives with Bud Light have been placed on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ijr.com\/another-bud-light-executive-leave-absence-dylan-mulvaney-ad\/\">leave<\/a>, and sales have continued to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ijr.com\/americans-send-bud-light-brutal-message-july-4-sales-numbers\/\">drop<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe always cared very very much about the people in America,\u201d Busch told Lahren. \u201cWhat made this company great was America, of course. When you are a foreign company and you rely on these woke students that are coming out of these woke colleges to do your advertising for you, you\u2019re making a big mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/ijr.com\/billy-busch-offers-buy-bud-light-make-brand-great-heir\/\">https:\/\/ijr.com\/billy-busch-offers-buy-bud-light-make-brand-great-heir\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anheuser-Busch heir Billy Busch has expressed interest in buying his family\u2019s former beer company if the parent company wants to sell it. Busch&nbsp;told&nbsp;Outkick host Tomi Lahren on her segment \u201cTomi Lahren is Fearless\u201d that he would be open to buying back&nbsp;Bud Light&nbsp;from&nbsp;parent company&nbsp;AB InBev, vouching to buy the brand back if he could and that he would \u201cmake that brand great again.\u201d \u201cI urge that company, InBev if they don\u2019t want that brand any longer, sell it back to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5007,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions\/5007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}