Dutch beer maker Heineken said Monday it would acquire Mexico’s Fomento Economico Mexicano (Femsa) brewery, valued at 5.3 billion euros (7.7 billion dollars), through an all-share transaction.

Sinking beer sales in Belgium are forcing Anheuser-Busch InBev SA to cut nearly 10 percent of the jobs in its home country, the company said Thursday.

The world’s largest brewer said it was reorganizing operations to meet lower demand and would shed up to 303 workers in Belgium.

Walgreens is seeking to add beer sales at 3 of its six locations in Sioux Falls and at its store in Pierre. The Sioux Falls City Council is to consider the license requests in that city on Jan. 19. In Pierre, the City Commission has approved a beer and wine license for Walgreens. The store still needs the approval of the state Department of Revenue.

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While California scrambles to fill another multi-billion dollar budget hole, the Assembly Health Committee killed a $1.4 billion mitigation fee program to charge the alcohol industry for some of the state’s annual $38 billion in alcohol-related harm.

The Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA) has kicked off its annual search for the world’s best beers, with UK brewers encouraged to enter the second largest beer competition of its kind, joining the global battle for beer supremacy.

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Gaithersburg, MD – National Institute For Alcohol Recovery (NIFAR) is launching a global recovery and prevention campaign called STOP DRINKING 411 to combat prevalent alcohol abuse. Social media websites and educational web videos are driving the campaign, which encourages people to stop and evaluate their drinking behavior.