Pabst Brewing Company

Pabst Brewing CEO Greig DeBow has offered a $20,000 reward for 1,602 cases of the Pabst Blue Ribbon maker’s beer he alleges was stolen in California last month.

The summer selling season wraps up this weekend with Labor Day Monday, and one of the hottest segments of the summer has been hard sports drinks. Brewbound editor Justin Kendall and senior reporter Zoe Licata dive into the fast-growing segment and how their views have shifted on it over the last year.

Former Firestone Walker brand director Hannah Barnett has jumped to Pabst Brewing. Barnett is now brand director for the Pabst Blue Ribbon maker.

As middle-tier M&A dominos fall this summer, NBWA president and CEO Craig Purser joins the latest Brewbound Podcast to discuss the tectonic shifts in the distribution landscape. Plus, Aeronaut director of programming Deepa Chungi shares how the Massachusetts craft brewery created a booming events business.

Pabst Brewing Company is discontinuing 175-year-old legacy light beer Schlitz – for the foreseeable future.

Now, what I’ve never seen in my decades of sitting in dive bars … is someone sticking a pickle spear into a beer. But, the folks at PABST are apparently swearing that’s a thing in the PR push for its new PBR x Grillo’s Pickle Beer collab.

Brown-Forman and Pabst Brewing Company are ending their production, sales, marketing and distribution partnership for FMBs such as the whiskey brand’s Jack Daniel’s Country Cocktails after five years.

Pabst Brewing may be in hot water following the company’s sales restructuring and ensuing layoffs, with the company potentially facing a class action lawsuit.

Pabst Brewing has eliminated an undisclosed number of jobs, a spokesperson confirmed to Brewbound. Although rumors swirled over the weekend that the cuts could amount to as much as 40% of Pabst’s workforce, the spokesperson said those estimates were more than double the actual impact.

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Pabst Brewing has promoted Pat O’Dea to chief sales officer, effective immediately, the company announced today.

Pabst Brewing is making changes to its c-suite, including the appointment of Greig DeBow as CEO, effective August 11. DeBow succeeds Paul Chibe, who had been in the CEO role since December 2021.

An industry-wide effort is needed to reverse soft beer category trends, elevate the category and appeal to young legal-drinking-age (LDA) consumers, leaders from New Belgium, Pabst Brewing and Athletic Brewing shared during a discussion with consultant Amy Jo Martin as part of the general session of the National Beer Wholesaler Association (NBWA) Annual Convention in San Diego.

Pabst Brewing has taken its El Jimador Spiked Bebidas tequila-inspired flavored malt beverage (FMB) national, in just one of its several beyond beer innovation expansion plans for 2024.