Two glass bottling plants hurt by Bud Light's controversial promotion with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney will close down in July, causing 600 lost jobs.
Former Anheuser-Busch executive Anson Frericks recently urged Anheuser-Busch’s CEO Brendan Whitworth to step down from the company for how he has handled the Dylan Mulvaney controversy.reportedly found that the plants are shuttering because of tanking Bud Light sales, as retailers, distributors, bars and contracted companies feel the wrath of nationwide boycotts over the controversial Bud Light partnership that celebrated Mulvaney's"365 Days of Girlhood.
In an internal Ardagh Group memo obtained by WRAL, executives said they planned to shut down the two plants"due to slow sales with Anheuser-InBev," Longtime employees told the outlet that they were not surprised by the move, considering that a large part of their business at those plants was producing bottles for Budweiser and Bud Light.
Employees at the Wilson, South Carolina plant reportedly said their manager confirmed to them that they were shuttering its doors because of the Bud Light boycott.
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