Family brew
Bad blood gets in the way of a Molson and Coors merger
FEW family firms survive more than three generations before being torn apart, usually by rifts over succession. Family-run brewers often do better—perhaps it owes something to their product. But this week, the bosses of two of North America's biggest brewers, Canada's Molson and America's Adolph Coors, were busy telling investors why their family firms had to merge and urging them to ignore a dissident from the Molson dynasty.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Family brew”
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