US EditionLast call: Anheuser-Busch closing New England facility next year
- Anheuser-Busch said on Thursday it will sell the Newark, New Jersey facility to Goodman Group and close Fairfield, California and Merrimack, New Hampshire facilities early 2026, affecting 475 workers.
- To update and modernize U.S. manufacturing operations, the company said it invested nearly $2 billion across its 100 U.S. facilities to support remaining operations and growing brands.
- The Merrimack factory employs approximately 125 full-time workers and affected employees will be offered transfers to other Anheuser‑Busch U.S. facilities with relocation stipends, skills training, or severance.
- Merrimack officials warned the closure will have significant budget impacts, noting Anheuser-Busch pays approximately $1 million to $1.5 million annually to the sewage budget and the property was recently assessed at $35 million with more than $780,000 in property taxes.
- The company will shift production to other U.S. facilities, enabling reinvestment, while the Goodman Group plans to repurpose the Newark brewery, opened in 1951, for industrial uses.
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