BREAKING NEWS !!!!
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Northwest Replacing Bud Light With Miller Lite On Flights !!!
... [font=Verdana,Sans-Serif]Thursday May 5, 3:00 PM EDT [/font]
[font=Verdana,Sans-Serif]ST. LOUIS (AP)--Northwest Airlines Corp. (NWAC) has tapped Miller Lite, the nation's No. 2 light beer, to replace top-selling Bud Light on all of its flights world-wide.
Northwest, the nation's fourth-largest airline, said Miller Lite will be phased in aboard Northwest and Northwest Airlink-operated flights over the next several weeks as its inventories of Bud Light are depleted.
Still, Northwest, Eagan, Minn., will continue serving Budweiser by Miller Brewing Co. rival Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. (BUD) as its full-calorie beer on all of its flights. Northwest also still will offer various imported brews.
Northwest and Northwest Airlink, which offer beverage service on roughly 2,800 of the 3,012 flights they operate world-wide to 247 cities in 23 countries, expect to buy more than 700,000 cans of Miller Lite a year to be served aboard its 659-aircraft fleet.
Northwest had served Miller Lite on its flights until roughly five years ago, when the airline switched to Bud Light, airline spokesman Kurt Ebenhoch said Thursday.
Among other things, Northwest made the switch because of passenger demand for "increasingly popular" Miller Lite in Milwaukee and Minneapolis, two of Northwest's biggest markets, Ebenhoch said.
With Miller's presence in Milwaukee, "Northwest also wanted to support one of our largest companies in one of our most-important U.S. markets," he said.
[/font]Anheuser-Busch did not immediately return a message left Thursday !!!.
Shares of Anheuser-Busch fell 16 cents, or 0.3%, to $47.70 in recent trading on the New York Stock Exchange!!!
Northwest shares rose 1 cent to $4.82 on the Nasdaq Stock Market...... :sleep_125
Northwest Replacing Bud Light With Miller Lite On Flights !!!
[font=Verdana,Sans-Serif]ST. LOUIS (AP)--Northwest Airlines Corp. (NWAC) has tapped Miller Lite, the nation's No. 2 light beer, to replace top-selling Bud Light on all of its flights world-wide.
Northwest, the nation's fourth-largest airline, said Miller Lite will be phased in aboard Northwest and Northwest Airlink-operated flights over the next several weeks as its inventories of Bud Light are depleted.
Still, Northwest, Eagan, Minn., will continue serving Budweiser by Miller Brewing Co. rival Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. (BUD) as its full-calorie beer on all of its flights. Northwest also still will offer various imported brews.
Northwest and Northwest Airlink, which offer beverage service on roughly 2,800 of the 3,012 flights they operate world-wide to 247 cities in 23 countries, expect to buy more than 700,000 cans of Miller Lite a year to be served aboard its 659-aircraft fleet.
Northwest had served Miller Lite on its flights until roughly five years ago, when the airline switched to Bud Light, airline spokesman Kurt Ebenhoch said Thursday.
Among other things, Northwest made the switch because of passenger demand for "increasingly popular" Miller Lite in Milwaukee and Minneapolis, two of Northwest's biggest markets, Ebenhoch said.
With Miller's presence in Milwaukee, "Northwest also wanted to support one of our largest companies in one of our most-important U.S. markets," he said.
[/font]Anheuser-Busch did not immediately return a message left Thursday !!!.
Shares of Anheuser-Busch fell 16 cents, or 0.3%, to $47.70 in recent trading on the New York Stock Exchange!!!
Northwest shares rose 1 cent to $4.82 on the Nasdaq Stock Market...... :sleep_125
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