🏭 After 75 years, the iconic Anheuser-Busch Newark brewery is set to close in early 2026. 👷♂️ Full-time staff are being offered transfers with relocation aid — or severance if they decline. 📦 The site will be sold to Goodman Group, which plans industrial and logistics redevelopment.
NEWARK — After 75 years as a landmark across from Newark Liberty International Airport, the Anheuser-Busch brewery will be closing up by early next year.
The brewery first opened in 1951 — second oldest only to Anheuser-Busch’s flagship brewery in St. Louis, Missouri.
It has made and packaged a number of the company’s beer products, including Budweiser, Bud Light, Rolling Rock, Busch, Natural Light and King Cobra.
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