@BlogKCIf ya haven’t heard, Miller and Coors are merging so they can take on St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch. The new company is looking for a new headquarters in a neutral site that isn’t Milwaukee or Denver, and today Pete Coors mentioned KC as a possible contender.
Such a move would give Missouri a monopoly on shitty yellow beer, unless of course they pick a Johnson County office park. It would also force Boulevard to change their slogan of “Missouri’s second-largest brewery.” Perhaps our state motto could be “Missouri, Yellow Beer Capital of the World.”
Don’t get too excited just yet. News media in Milwaukee are talking about Dallas and Chicago as the most likely candidates, and MillerCoors says it will keep significant amounts of jobs in Denver and Milwaukee.
It makes sense to set the headquarters in KC – that way you can keep the product close to a highly reliable (and profitable) drunken customer base – also known as Chiefs’ fans.
Of course, MillerCoors would have plenty of options for a location:
1.Perhaps they could move into the almost-empty Sprint “World Headquarters”™?
2. Maybe they could rent out some floors in the building of the layoff-crazy H&R Block?
3. Or, how about buying a warehouse from the bankrupt IBC bakeries?
But let’s be honest – the most likely answer is that they could con the gullible citizens of Jackson County to pony up some TIF money to build them a brand new multi-million dollar place for free on some high-value land near the Plaza!
Chris–have some sugar, man. Possible good news doesn’t have to be crapped on. Cheer up.
I’m sure Funk will screw this up.
I have serious mixed fealings about this. It’d be nice to have a new headquarters here. On the other hand, I’ve heard that microbrews are hard to come by in the A-B capital. In other words, what does this mean for my favorite home-town microbrew?
That’s awesome! Miller makes High Life and PBR, which is all I drink except for occasional Boulevard. The only thing that would make my nectar taste better is if it was HQ’d in KC in direct compeition to the hoosiers at A-B.
Anyone care to comment about Pete Coors’ peculiar political leanings?
They are talking headquarters, not breweries. It’s unlikely that they’d relocate those, though I could see a new one being built here someday if the HQ did locate here. It’s also just as likely that if they did build one here it would be for one of their attempts to compete with companies like Boulevard.
I think Dallas would be the most likely location. Isn’t Chicago a bit close to Milwaukee to be considered neutral?