Monday, July 14, 2008

Budweiser ... Horse Trading

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We're back from a weekend in Wisconsin, home of old beer companies like Schlitz, Blatz, and Pabst. Some of you may not have heard of these once-popular brands. Over the years they were bought out or went out of business. These were not small breweries. Their giant grain silos and breweries dotted the Milwaukee landscape. But they couldn't compete with giant national brands such as Anheuser-Busch.

Now we see the next step in these American brands. Everyone has seen commercials featuring these:

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These Clydesdales are about to be retired and replace by these:

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... Belgian draft horses.

Nice, but not quite the same. Still, most of us will never notice the difference.

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