It wasn’t too long ago that Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth took to the airwaves to make an emotional appeal to American consumers boycotting Bud Light: Their actions would hurt his employees most.
Now it looks as if the disastrous plunge in demand for the once-popular lager may have prompted the first staff layoffs at the brand’s parent company, according to its local Missouri paper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
