Miller Brewing Company

…breweries in the United States, Miller Brewing Company and Coors Brewing Company. The former company was founded by Frederick Edward John Miller, who emigrated from Germany in 1854 and the following year began production in the Plank Road Brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Adolph Coors—along with his partner, Jacob Schueler—started the…

…the early 21st century the Miller Brewing Company was the only major brewery left in the city. A handful of the small community-oriented breweries that were once prominent throughout the state have managed to survive as a result of niche marketing. Moreover, the same strong German heritage that was responsible…

…a controlling interest in the Miller Brewing Company, which it held until it sold the business in 2002 to South African Breweries PLC. In 1978 it purchased the Seven-Up Company, a soft-drink maker; unable to expand its soft-drink market, it sold Seven-Up in 1986. In 1985 the publicly held Philip…