{"id":1935860,"date":"2023-05-22T23:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-long-hot-dry-summer-former-anheuser-busch-president-makes-dire-prediction-about-the-future-of-bud-light\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T23:29:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T03:29:46","slug":"a-long-hot-dry-summer-former-anheuser-busch-president-makes-dire-prediction-about-the-future-of-bud-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-long-hot-dry-summer-former-anheuser-busch-president-makes-dire-prediction-about-the-future-of-bud-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Anheuser-Busch President Predicts Grim Future for Bud Light Amid Long, Hot, Dry Summer."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-long-hot-dry-summer-former-anheuser-busch-president-makes-dire-prediction-about-the-future-of-bud-light%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1935860&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Anheuser-Busch Executive Says Company&#8217;s Focus on Social Issues Hurts Sales<\/h2>\n<h3>Overview<\/h3>\n<p>Anson Frericks, former president of sales and distribution for Anheuser-Busch, believes that the company&#8217;s focus on social issues is hurting sales. He argues that the company needs to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-long-hot-dry-summer-former-anheuser-busch-president-makes-dire-prediction-about-the-future-of-bud-light\/\" title=\"Ex-Anheuser-Busch President Predicts Grim Future for Bud Light Amid Long, Hot, Dry Summer.\">prioritize serving customers<\/a> over engaging in social issues.<\/p>\n<h3>Controversy Over Bud Light<\/h3>\n<p>Frericks points to the controversy over Bud Light&#8217;s partnership with influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who claims to be a woman and documented his gender transition on social media. This partnership caused backlash among conservatives.<\/p>\n<h3>Culture Shift at Anheuser-Busch<\/h3>\n<p>Frericks notes that there has been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/starbucks-may-end-open-to-all-bathroom-policy-citing-safety-concerns\/\" title=\"Starbucks May End Open-to-All Bathroom Policy, Citing Safety Concerns\">significant culture shift<\/a> at Anheuser-Busch during his tenure. The company has shifted towards the environmental, social, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kentucky-treasurer-sanctions-blackrock-and-other-companies-engaged-in-ideological-boycotts-against-energy-sector\/\" title=\"Kentucky Treasurer Sanctions BlackRock and Other Companies Involved in \u2018Ideological\u2019 Boycotts of the Energy Sector\">corporate governance movement<\/a> (ESG) over the past decade. Frericks argues that there is now too much focus on ESG and not enough on the bottom line.<\/p>\n<h3>Predictions for Bud Light<\/h3>\n<p>Frericks predicts that Bud Light will continue to struggle in the coming year. He believes that customers will switch to other brands if Anheuser-Busch does not prioritize serving customers over engaging in social issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anson Frericks, ex-president of sales and distribution at Anheuser-Busch, predicted that Bud Light and other brands would face difficulties until the company prioritizes customer service over social issues. Bud Light faced backlash from conservatives for partnering with influencer Dylan Mulvaney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1935861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[18499,13279,27193,3899,27371,7354,5339,5115,5713,3669,10502],"class_list":["post-1935860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-bud","tag-dry","tag-ex-anheuser-busch","tag-future","tag-grim","tag-hot","tag-light","tag-long","tag-predicts","tag-president","tag-summer"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}