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...result, Schlitz is more vulnerable to takeover than a cold six-pack on a hot Saturday night. Last year it was approached by another famous Milwaukee name, Pabst, as well as by the G. Heileman Brewing Co. of La Crosse, Wis., a scrappy firm that has built itself into the fourth largest company in the industry by buying up regional brands. The Pabst bid, though, never went anywhere, and the Justice Department blocked Heileman's acquisition on antitrust grounds...
...case, he admitted straight forwardly that "it is perfectly clear that IBM obtained its very large market share in an entirely legal way." But one cannot charge him with being soft on big business; the AT&T settlement was entirely his doing, and his opposition recently prevented the G. Heileman Brewing Company from buying Schlitz. Perhaps more importantly, Baxter has showed his willingness to go after serious business improprieties such as price fixing not only with civil legislation, as has commonly been done, but also by pressing criminal charges...
...General Brewing Co., bought control of Falstaff for $10 million. Other 1975 brewery turnovers: Theodore Hamm Co. of St. Paul, once tenth in the industry, bought out by Washington's expanding Olympia Brewing Co.; and C. Schmidt & Sons of Philadelphia, currently being taken over by G. Heileman Brewing Co. of Wisconsin, which also brews Blatz and some 30 other brands...