Overview
- Fairfield, California, and Merrimack, New Hampshire, breweries will close in early 2026, and the Newark, New Jersey, site will be sold to the Goodman Group.
- Goodman plans to repurpose the Newark property for industrial manufacturing and logistics uses, according to the companies.
- About 475 full-time employees across the three sites are being offered roles elsewhere in the U.S. network with relocation stipends and training, or severance if they decline.
- Anheuser-Busch says production will be shifted to other facilities after investing nearly $2 billion across roughly 100 U.S. sites in recent years.
- Local officials flagged economic impacts, with Fairfield citing job losses and water utility revenue hits and Merrimack estimating about 124 local jobs affected, while specific shutdown dates have not been disclosed.