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Article: Bud Light may overtake Bud this year.(newspaper reports Bud Light as top selling beer)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Modern Brewery Age
- Article date:
- October 8, 2001
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Associated Press--Budweiser has been toppled from its spot as the best-selling beer in America by an upstart beverage. Bud Light, the drinkers love you, man.
Bud Light recently overtook Budweiser as the top-selling beer in the United States, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported last week. Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. introduced Bud Light in 1982. Since then, the brand consistently has been one of the company's top-performing beers, while sales of Budweiser, its flagship, have steadily declined.
In 1991 the St Louis-based brewery shipped 46.8 million barrels of Budweiser, compared with 12.4 million of Bud Light, according to figures provided by Beer ...