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BGR Government Affairs has hopped on Anheuser-Busch Cos.’ Washington lobbying team, providing strategic guidance and counsel on issues impacting the St. Louis-based brewer.
Bob Wood, BGR GA president and former chief of staff to Tommy Thompson when he served as Wisconsin governor and Dept. of Health & Human Services secretary, spearheads the five-member lobbying team.
He’s joined by Dave Boyer, former lobbyist at Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America; Brent Del Monte, aide to former Virginia Republican Senator John Warner; John Stone, former staffer for Michigan Republican Congressman Fred Upton; and Rob Walton, ex-aide to Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy.
A-B spent $1.3M in first-quarter lobbying for issues such as Anheuser-Bush InBev's merger with SABMiller, tax reform and the Craft Beverage Modernization Act.
The brewer has used the firms of Missouri politicos Kit Bond (ex-Republican Senator of the Show Me State) and Dick Gephardt (former Democratic Congressman from St. Louis).
Haley Barbour, former Republican National Committee chairman and Mississippi Senator, founded BGR.
Knob Petroleum, which is based in Panama City, has retained Ballard Partners to explore opportunities in Venezuela.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has signed to represent Eastern Air Holdings, which operates deportation flights for Immigration & Customs Enforcement.
Ballard Partners has lined up Australia’s Energy Transition Minerals company, an explorer and developer of rare earths minerals opportunities. It touts its Greenland property as having the potential to become the biggest rare earths producer in the western world.
Abbvie has retained Trump-connected Winston-Salem-based Checkmate Government Relations for healthcare matters and issues related to the life sciences sector.
Netflix has retained Bloom Strategic Counsel for regulatory matters regarding its proposed $83B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
