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UFC has come a long way since the days when you needed a VCR to watch the latest title bout: The organization is now at the center of a young male consumer ecosystem, with big-name blue-chip sponsors that want their brands front and center with this demographic. But greater challenges lie ahead.

Researchers have published a study showing that beer contains a large amount of dietary silicon. The mineral, which previous studies have linked to bone health, is especially abundant in IPAs and ales, beers that are most commonly associated with small-scale breweries.

It might seem risky for a marketer to integrate its TV spots with a show known for its advertising parodies. But that's not stopping Anheuser-Busch from buying up all the commercial time on this weekend's Saturday Night Live to shill Budweiser. The October 17 show will air eight to nine minutes of...

Beverage giants PepsiCo (PEP) and Anheuser-Busch struck an unusual alliance this week to establish a procurement system in the U.S., letting them act as one company when purchasing certain materials and services. The pact, the companies said this week, will give the corporations better prices on...

Remember Genesee? Maybe not. The name might ring a bell with older beer drinkers -- especially those living in or near its home field of upstate New York -- but these consumers may wonder whatever happened to brands like Iron City, Schlitz, and the Rochester-based Genesee Brewing Co. Genesee's new...

Private-equity firms don't have a good track record for improving the properties they buy. They're better known for buying firms, improving efficiencies (sometimes to the company's detriment), milking them for cash, and then flipping them when they can profit. Recently I wrote the sad but familiar...

Shamu, the first female orca ever captured, has been dead for 38 years. Isn't it time the world's most famous performing killer whale got her own wax figure? With private-equity firm Blackstone Group, which owns Madame Tussauds wax museums, reportedly in talks to buy SeaWorld and Busch Gardens...

Buy low, sell high. That's an investment maxim that never gets old. But it's getting a fresh coat of paint thanks to the recent interest of foreign food, drug and beverage companies in buying their U.S. counterparts. After all, with the Dow way below where it was in October 2007, the stock prices...