Anheuser-Busch to lay off hundreds of workers after Bud Light boycott hammers sales
Modelo overtook Bud Light last month as the top-selling beer in the U.S. Anheuser-Busch plans to lay off hundreds of corporate employees, a company spokesperson told ABC News on Thursday. The layoffs come months after a product endorsement from Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender i NFL uencer, in April set off a consumer boycott among conservatives that hammered sales . The layoffs will affect "less than 2%" of the company's U.S. employees, the company said. That figure amounts to roughly 380 workers, since the company's website says it employs a total of about 19,000 U.S.-based workers. MORE: The boycott against Bud Light is hammering sales. Experts explain why. The layoffs will affect workers "across every corporate function" but will not impact frontline workers, such as warehouse staff, drivers and salespeople, the company spokesperson said. "Today we took the very difficult but necessary decision to eliminate a number of positions across our corporate ...