Budweiser plans to ship unsold beer to country that wins World Cup, after Qatar's U-turn on alcohol | Business Insider

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'New Day, New Tweet. Winning Country gets the Buds. Who will get them?' Budweiser tweeted Monday. | BISouthAfrica

"GAME ON. We're throwing the biggest Winners celebration - EVER," Budweiser tweeted in another post on Monday. "Budweiser wants to bring this celebration from the FIFA World Cup stadiums to the winning country's fans. We will host the ultimate championship celebration for the winning country," an Anheuser-Busch InBev's spokesperson said in a statement to Insider.

Budweiser holds an around $75 million deal with soccer's governing body FIFA to supply beer at the World Cup 2022, and another deal worth around $113 million for the World Cup 2026,, the brewing giant may be knocking around $47 million off the 2026 sponsorship deal, after the recent fiasco. Qatar strictly controls the sale of alcohol in the country, and consumption is only allowed within hotel bars and restaurants, away from street view. But it agreed to relax its alcohol restrictions to allow Budweiser to sell its beverages at certain venues and at certain times.

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BISouthAfrica Saudi Arabia will win the world cup and get the prize of Budweisers!

BISouthAfrica And what will they do 'IF' by all that is unholy Saudi ot Qatar or any of those so-caller holier than thou countries wins the world cup? How will that derail their plans? Guess we know what fresh dystopian hellscape that would be.

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