The whistleblower alleged that the so-called “strategic destruction” was carried out so that InBev, which acquired Anheuser-Busch, had reason to enact layoffs and scale back employee benefits.
“Bud Light has been failing for many years. We’ve talked about that for many years. The numbers of just, you know, little by little deteriorated,” the former employee continued. “And it feels like they said, ‘Let’s put this nail in the coffin.”
“Now we have a lot of layoffs, a lot of loss in production. It would be easy for them to restructure, let’s say, pay or contracts,” the whistleblower added. “It’s too obvious that they wouldn’t just mistakenly do this and not expect these repercussions. Anybody could tell you what was going to happen.”