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  • MillerCoors' Plan to Close NC Brewery Faces State and Federal Antitrust Scrutiny
    Updated On: Apr 95, 2016

    (EDEN, N.C.) – North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper spoke at a Teamsters rally outside of the MillerCoors brewery in Eden, N.C., yesterday.

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    Vernon Gammon

    Phone: (336) 613-2950(EDEN, N.C.) – North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper spoke at a Teamsters rally outside of the MillerCoors brewery in Eden, N.C., yesterday. 

    MillerCoors announced plans to close the Eden brewery in September 2015, just two days before merger talks between AB InBev (ABI) and SABMiller (SAB) became public. SAB and Molson Coors are co-owners of MillerCoors. 

    The Eden brewery is a large and efficient facility that accounts for approximately 12.5 percent of MillerCoors’ beer production and nearly 4 percent of the entire U.S. beer market. The Teamsters believe that the timing of the closure announcement was not accidental, and the closure, if it takes place, may lead to higher beer prices.

    At the rally, Cooper indicated that North Carolina is investigating the decision to close the brewery. He stated that his office has sent investigative demands and set up meetings with the companies involved. He also indicated that the state is working with the U.S. Department of Justice, which is overseeing the antitrust investigation of the ABI/SAB merger.

    “This shutdown will be devastating for the brewery workers, their families and our whole community,” said Vernon Gammon, Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 391, which represents the Eden brewery employees. 

    Cooper echoed the Teamsters’ concern about job losses. 

    “This community and our entire state will suffer because of the loss of these good-paying jobs,” Cooper said.

    If MillerCoors does not want to operate the facility, both Cooper and Teamster officials encouraged the company to find a buyer willing to keep good jobs in North Carolina. MillerCoors alerted Eden employees today that it plans to begin layoffs in June.

    Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.4 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Visit www.teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and “like” us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/teamsters.

    You can also read this article on the IBT website.  


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