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A-B InBev Cuts 'Small Number' of U.S. Jobs |
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Monday, 18 January 2010 09:00 |
Anheuser-Busch InBev on Friday laid off a "small number" of workers at its U.S. breweries, the beer company said.
The beer company declined to reveal the exact scope or locations of the firings.
In a brief statement, A-B InBev noted that "we are making operational changes that may result in selected job eliminations or additions in various locations."
In Missouri, the number of job losses apparently was not a mass layoff, one that would be large enough to require the notification of state officials. And union workers in St. Louis apparently were not among those hit, according to Brewers and Malters Local No. 6.
The U.S. layoffs arrive just weeks after A-B InBev, the world's largest beermaker, announced it was slashing about 10 percent of its 8,000-strong work force in Western Europe.
The world's largest brewer and the maker of Budweiser and Stella Artois has moved to cut costs and pay off the debt it built up from InBev's $52 billion takeover of Anheuser-Busch in 2008. Since the merger, the company slashed 1,000 jobs in St. Louis from a local work force that once numbered 6,000.
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