Labatt was Brick's nemesis

The Labatt Brewing Company was originally a small, Canadian brewery, but that was a long time ago, over a century ago. Founded in 1847, seven  years later John Kinder Labatt's partner retired. Soon, Labatt had taken complete control of the operation.

When John Labatt Sr. died in 1866, his son took over. Under his guidance, the Labatt brewery became the largest brewery in Canada. It was the little brewery that could. Labatt Blue, a lager, was the most popular Canadian brew in the country and Labatt was the biggest brewery.

Then in 1995, Interbrew bought the company. A bigger fish devouring a smaller fish. But the business world food chain tends to grow as bigger and bigger fish, attracted by the action, circle their prey. In 2004, Interbrew merged with the Brazilian brewery giant AmBev to form InBev. In 2004, Interbrew merged with Brazilian brewer AmBev to form InBev. 

But the mergers, acquisitions and the like continued. In 2008, InBev acquired Anheuser-Busch. Today, Labatt is just a small part of the massive Anheuser-Busch InBev beverage company with its head office in Leuven, Belgium. AB InBev took control of SABMiller in 2015. 

The world's biggest brewery became even bigger. Today it bottles some 630 different brews in 150 countries around the world.

I wonder how many jobs have been lost as relatively small, local brewers were taken over by an efficient, global beverage maker.