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The nation’s fourth largest beer company is heading back to its roots, well … sort of.  Pabst, providers of the frat-boy-favorite Pabst Blue Ribbon and street-cred heavy Old Style brands, has decided to move back to the Mid-West.  While some would assume this is prodigal-son-returns move by the formerly Milwaukee-based Pabst, in actuality they have decided to move their headquarters to Chicago suburb Woodbridge, Illinois.

Of the roughly ninety employees currently working at the San Antonio headquarters, the company estimates only fifteen or so will make the long trip north to Woodbridge.  Many of the displaced workers will remain in San Antonio and continue to work for the company in some capacity.  Pabst foresees the need to immediately hire about thirty local workers once their migration is complete.

So why exactly would Pabst uproot from a city that houses tourist attractions like the Alamo, the River Walk Mall and perrenial NBA contenders the Spurs?  The state of Illinois offered them a million bucks for their troubles.  Good enough for me.

In closing I’d just like to point out the fact that Pabst also owns Schlitz Malt Liquor.  Schlitz Malt Liquor is pretty rad, so rad in fact that my dad had a Schlitz Malt Liquor belt buckle.  He also had a blue leather belt that went with the bull-emblazoned buckle.  The belt wasn’t that rad.

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