Hard seltzer spike drives Anheuser-Busch to invest millions in its CNY brewery Syracuse.com 2/4/2021 Don Cazentre, syracuse.com
The big Anheuser-Busch plant near Baldwinsville, the largest brewery in New York state, is set to receive a major share of a planned $1 billion company-wide corporate investment over the next two years.
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The growth of the company’s hard seltzer brands is a major focus of its spending plan. Anheuser-Busch also says it want to help boost the national economy in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The $1 billion will be spread across 26 states and include A-B’s production and distribution operations. Of that, $400 million is earmarked for its 12 U.S. breweries.
Salt City Market opens, Laurie Berkner, historic shipwrecks: 11 things to do in CNY
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
It is the final weekend of January and, while the weather outside might be frightful, there are plenty of activities to do both live and virtually.
The Salt City Market in downtown Syracuse finally opens on Friday, children’s singer Laurie Berkner will be singing at a virtual concert to support the CNY Diaper Bank on Saturday, and there will be a history talk about some of the famous shipwrecks from the Thousand Island region.
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Feds accuse Lysander company of discriminating against deaf job applicant
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
Posted Jan 26, 2021
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Lysander, N.Y. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing a distribution company outside Baldwinsville, alleging it refused to interview a qualified job applicant because she was deaf.
In a lawsuit filed on Dec. 30 in the Northern District of New York, the EEOC said a deaf woman, identified in the lawsuit as Shelley Valentino, applied on March 12, 2018, for two positions for which she was qualified at McLane Northeast’s warehouse in Lysander.
One of the jobs involved selecting designated open-case product and placing it in a tote or box to fulfill customer orders. The other involved selecting designated product, loading it into a cart or onto a pallet, and using power equipment to transport it to the designated dock area to fulfill customer orders.
Stewart s Shops Reveals More Details on Express Locations
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. Stewart s Shops is unveiling plans for the first five smaller-concept Stewart s Express convenience stores for the upstate New York market.
Stewart s Express which will be a test to see how these shops perform with a decreased product offering and the omission of hand-scooped ice cream, milkshakes, salads, sandwiches, soup or meatballs comes off the heels of Stewart s Shops acquisition of fellow Saratoga Springs-based retailer Red-Kap in November.
Under the plan, the retailer will convert six of the Red-Kap convenience stores to Stewart s Express. The remaining two will become Stewart s Shops, as