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  Coors Brewing Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The major reason is that Coors beer is not pasteurized, and thus shipments were limited to areas where the beer could remain refrigerated.
In 2003, Coors was the third largest producer of beer in the United States, and the second largest brewer in the United Kingdom through its subsidiary, Coors Brewers Limited.
Coors has a long history of labor strife that came to a head in the late 1970s with a nationwide boycott led by the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest union.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coors_Brewing_Company   (699 words)

  
 Salazar v. Coors
Coors is a good man who was never really able to capitalize on the resources of the statewide party to the extent that he should have.
Apart from the fact Coors has had to toss in more of his personal fortune than he earlier anticipated, I'd say the GOP machine - both state and national - is running this campaign on schedule and on target.
Coors is the easy victor on November 2 (as implied in the letter), and I am certain that the Democrats will turn out to vote for Mr.
salazarvcoors.blogspot.com   (2234 words)

  
 Pete Coors Information at PeteCoors.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1993 Coors became vice chairman and CEO of the company, and in 2002 he was named Chairman of Coors Brewing Company and Adolph Coors Company.
Coors defended himself by saying that he was opposed to same-sex marriage, and supported a constitutional amendment to ban it.
Coors faced Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar in the November 2004 election, but Coors was defeated by a margin of 50% to 47%.
www.petecoors.com   (231 words)

  
 Ballparks of Baseball-Coors Field-Colorado Rockies
The team, which was named the Colorado Rockies played at Mile High Stadium during the 1993 and 1994 seasons, while their new ballpark, Coors Field was being constructed in downtown Denver.
Coors Field combines the nostalgic feel of a 1920's urban ballpark with 21st century technology and conveniences.
One of Coors Field signature features is the clock, located at 20th and Blake Street.
www.ballparksofbaseball.com /nl/Coors%20Field.htm   (484 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Business (Coors)
The Adolph Coors Company was founded in 1873 by a fellow who shared a first name with the 20th century's greatest villain, Adolph Hitler.
The second factor — which is much harder to define — is the association of Coors with a variety of right-wing causes and charities, and how this connection translates in some people's minds to a tie to Nazism.
The Coors Brewing Company (a principal subsidiary of the Adolph Coors Company) does indeed make contributions to a number of charities and projects, but those on its receiving end are far less controversial groups than those funded by the Coors Foundation.
www.snopes.com /business/alliance/coors.asp   (659 words)

  
 The Coors Story
It was during this postwar period that Coors and other brewers began to experiment with various types and sizes of packaging.
Coors' transition from a regional to international brewer began in the 1970's when the company started expanding both its product line and distribution.
Under the direction of fourth-generation Peter Coors, the company began the decade of the '90s by reaching a long-sought goal of becoming the nation's third largest brewer and experiencing the fastest volume growth rate in the industry.
www.alabev.com /coorstry.htm   (1689 words)

  
 Coors Brewing Company: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The golden, colorado adolph coors company was formerly a holding company controlled by the heirs of founder adolph coors....
Coors also at one time made ceramic[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] products under the name Coors Ceramics; they spun off that business, EHandler: no quick summary.
The coors brewing company is one of the worlds largest brewers of beer....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/coors_brewing_company.htm   (1190 words)

  
 Black Hawk Down
However, the advances for gays in the workplace at Coors "is more reflective of an effort to appeal to a particular segment of the beer-drinking market than of a change of heart on gay rights issues," according to People for The American Way (www.pfaw.org/issues/right/rw/coors.html).
Another group supported by Coors money, The National Association of Scholars (NAS) states that they "filed an amicus curiae brief with the U. District Court in Michigan in support of two students who have brought suit against the University of Michigan for denying them admission on the basis of their race" (www.nas.org).
Orr correctly shows that the Coors boycott has been instrumental in improving the workplace for GLBT at Coors, and that this is not a matter of corporate generosity or corporate fairness as Fantauzzi implies.
www-personal.umich.edu /~lormand/agenda/0205/coorsboycott.htm   (4075 words)

  
 People For the American Way - Adolph Coors Foundation
The brewery was established in 1873 by Adolph Coors, Sr.
Coors ultimately broke the union by hiring hundreds of non-union workers who, along with employees who did not join the strike, voted to decertify the union in 1978.
In light of the Coors family and foundation's continuing support for right-wing, anti-gay, anti-labor and anti-civil rights organizations, it is likely that the domestic-partner policy is more reflective of an effort to appeal to a particular segment of the beer-drinking market than of a change of heart on gay rights issues.
www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=2064   (941 words)

  
 CNN.com - Brewery magnate Joseph Coors dies at 85 - Mar. 17, 2003
In the 1970s, Coors began providing money and his famous name to start the Heritage Foundation, the influential think tank in Washington, D.C. Even earlier, he served as one of Reagan's advisers and backers in the "Kitchen Cabinet," which financed Reagan's political career from the governorship of California to the White House.
Coors also served a term as a regent of the University of Colorado, confronting what he saw as campus radicalism during the Vietnam War.
Coors and his brother worked in the same office, their desks not more than a foot apart.
www.cnn.com /2003/US/Central/03/17/obit.joseph.coors.ap   (665 words)

  
 Coors Page
Coors can't accept that there may be other pathways to god and he supports movements and causes that use coertion and intimidation to push christianity on other people, as the ONLY answer.
Coors is a staunch supporter of the Christian Coalition and his donations have been funneled to candidates and political action committees which are in opposition to freedom of expression and freedom of religion.
From 1967 to 1972 Joseph Coors was a regent at the University of Colorado where he opposed the existence of campus groups such as UMAS (United Mexican American Students), BSU (Black Student Union), and SDS (Students for a Democratic Society).
www.tylwythteg.com /enemies/coors.html   (1286 words)

  
 COORS BOYCOTT AND STRIKE SUPPORT COALITION RECORDS COLLECTION: 1974 - DATE [bulk 1974-1977]
The conflict was over human rights: the union felt that Coors was not an equal opportunity employer, that the mandatory polygraph test questions did not relate directly to their jobs, and that members of the Coors family were union busters.
Coors had promised, while not admitting guilt for past practices, to be fair to all people in their hiring.
In addressing the accusations of irrelevant questions being asked on the polygraph, William Coors claimed that prior to 1975, the questions were compiled by an outside polygraph testing bureau, but that after doubt had been raised as to the validity of the some of the questions, certain questions were removed from the polygraph test.
carbon.cudenver.edu /public/library/archives/coors/main.html   (1420 words)

  
 Adolph Coors Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Adolph Coors Foundation is a private family foundation established in October, 1975 with funds from the Adolph Coors, Jr.
In 1977, a bequest was received from the estate of Gertrude Steele Coors and in 1988, Janet Coors, wife of the late Herman F. Coors, contributed funds to establish the Herman F. Coors Professorial Chair in Ceramics.
It should be noted that the Adolph Coors Foundation does not receive contributions from, act on behalf of, or engage in activities for the benefit of the Coors Brewing Company, Graphic Packaging International Corporation, employees of those corporations or their distributors.
www.adolphcoors.org   (311 words)

  
 Colorado Rockies : Ballpark : Coors Field
Coors Field is located at 20th and Blake streets, in Denver's historic Lower Downtown.
Bicycle parking is available near Gate E at the left field corner of Coors Field at Gate A and across from Gate B at 22nd and Blake Streets.
Adjacent to Coors Field, Lot B is next to Lot A between Blake Street and the railroad tracks extending from the 27th Street entrance out toward 30th.
colorado.rockies.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/col/ballpark/directions.jsp   (730 words)

  
 Boycott Coors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William Coors' racism was publicly exposed in a statement he made to fl and Mexican-American businessmen in 1984.
Coors money was directly behind the first formal challenge to affirmative action with the filing of the August 1990 Colorado contracting case, Adarand Constructors, Inc. v Skinner by the Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF).
Adolph Coors Sr.'s family friend and lawyer owned Castle Rock, the monumental red-rock knob that overlooked the Coors Brewery property, and lent it to the KKK in the 1920's for cross burnings that could be seen from all over Denver.
www.bamn.com /boycott-coors/index.asp   (2054 words)

  
 Coors Organization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Coors Golden brewery is the world's largest on a single site and remains in the same Rocky Mountain foothills location where Adolph Coors established his brewery in 1873.
Coors purchased its second brewery in 1990 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Coors is a partner in the nation's largest aluminum can manufacturing plant in Golden, Colorado, and a glass bottle manufacturing plant in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
www.alabev.com /coorsorg.htm   (316 words)

  
 Joseph Coors - dKosopedia
Coors donated the first-year Heritage Foundation budget of $250,000 for 1973 from the coffers of the Coors Corporation...For the next two years Coors gave $200,000 to the group...then pledged $15,000 per month...
Eventually, Coors and Paul Weyrich set up the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress (CSFC) to carry out political activities and the Heritage Foundation as a tax exempt educational research entity.
Joseph Coors is the founder of the Council for National Policy:
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Joseph_Coors   (469 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Colorado's Peter Coors wins GOP race for Senate; Georgia voters give boost to black candidate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The great-grandson of beer baron Adolph Coors handily won the Republican primary for Colorado's U.S. Senate seat, triggering a face-off with the state's Democratic attorney general this fall.
Coors' victory capped a bitter campaign in which conservatives loyal to Schaffer funded ads ridiculing Coors' support of a lower drinking age.
Coors said he supports a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, and he contends lowering the drinking age would teach responsibility at a younger age.
www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/state/2004-08-11-primary-roundup_x.htm   (813 words)

  
 Coors, the RIGHT beer now
In contrast to the advertised association of Coors beer with "pure mountain spring water", Coors is one of the largest dumpers of hazardous waste in Colorado.
Coors family funding continues to flow toward rightist groups, and the family's political involvement plays a crucial role in the establishment and maintenance of key organizations defining the political dialogue for both the New Right and the Religious Right.
Jeffrey H. Coors sits on the FCF board of directors along with the FCF director Paul Weyrich, an ardent supporter of the neo-fascist Society for the Protection of Tradition, Family and Property; and Charles Moser, an editorial adviser to a publication that praises the Nazi Waffen SS.
www.corporations.org /coors   (3145 words)

  
 Washington Blade Online
Coors Brewing Co. has long struggled to distance itself from the family owners, but now Pete Coors is running for Senate on the backs of gay customers.
Pete Coors, a former chair of the Coors Brewing Co., is now a Republican candidate for the United States Senate from the state of Colorado.
Furthermore, a large number of Coors family members — who profit directly from the Coors Brewing Co. — are board members of a private institution, the Castle Rock Foundation, which gives away millions of dollars to conservative, anti-gay organizations.
www.washblade.com /2004/6-25/view/editorial/coors.cfm   (845 words)

  
 Welcome to Intermedia Advertising Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In a recent Morgan Stanley consumer survey, 58% of respondents agreed that Coors Light is "for a younger crowd," compared with 49% the prior year.
Coors folks don't like to talk about how much they've spent to promote "Rock On." Last year, though, Coors spent $201.1 million on advertising, compared with Anheuser's $331.7 million, says CMR, the ad-tracking unit of Taylor Nelson Sofres.
Coors can't possibly outspend Anheuser and also trails SABMiller, so it's got to be a clever marketer as well as a smart operator.
www.iagr.net /news_110602.jsp   (675 words)

  
 Marin Institute Responds to Peter Coors' Plan to Lower Drinking Age
Peter Coors' suggestion that we "reopen the debate" on lowering the drinking age comes as no surprise to those who have followed Coors' youth-oriented advertising over the years.
Coors must be uncomfortable that a significant chunk of his company's profits -- like those of other major brewers -- come from underage drinking.
Coors wants to deliberate about something, he should focus instead on why beer taxes remain so low despite the fact that alcohol-related problems cost our nation upwards of $184 billion a year and young people can buy beer that is cheaper than water.
www.jointogether.org /sa/news/features/reader/0,1854,572285,00.html   (457 words)

  
 Edwin J. Feulner on Joseph Coors on National Review Online
Joseph Coors, without whom there would be no Heritage Foundation, is dead at the age of 85.
If Joe Coors had only been the president and chief operating officer of the Coors Brewing Company — today the third largest brewer in America — he would be an American success story.
Coors agreed strongly that America had to have a defense against Soviet missiles.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-feulner031803.asp   (912 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Coors' twins ads a hit with target market   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To sell beer to these guys, the prime market, Coors concluded that the way to get their attention would be commercials featuring a pair of busty cheerleaders — who are twins.
Coors Light was No. 3 in U.S. beer sales with a 2002 market share of 8.1%, up 1.2%, according to Beer Marketer's Insights.
Coors' answer to charges that it treats women as sex objects: "We've been careful not to make this all about babes," Askew says.
www.usatoday.com /money/advertising/adtrack/2003-03-02-coors_x.htm   (721 words)

  
 westword.com | News | The Other Coors Spokesman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The bartender will conclude by noting that Coors family members are homophobes and that, hey, pal, a dime for Coors is a dollar for hate.
Coors isn't a friend of Dorothy just for the novelty; Coors is in it for the long run.
Because here is this company, Coors, that has done wrong in the past and is ready to make a permanent change for the better.
www.westword.com /issues/1999-09-02/feature.html   (654 words)

  
 Coors Building
Coors Building at the northeast corner of Main Street and Nevada Avenue, June 1906.
The cornice carries a bronze plate with the name "Coors." This two-story brick structure has been in continuous use except for a couple of years in the early 1980s.
For many years the first floor of the Coors building held Abe's Cafe and its well-known round table where Main Street merchants gathered for coffee and to discuss the state of downtown Littleton.
www.littletongov.org /history/histlandmarks/coorsbldg.asp   (404 words)

  
 The Legacy of Joseph Coors
Coors was the original funder of Heritage and subsequently earned the title of honorary trustee, founder and recipient of Heritage’s highest honor—the Clare Boothe Luce award.
"Joe Coors was a man who was blessed with great fortune, who was willing to put that fortune behind the ideas for freedom in which he believed so passionately.
Joseph Coors speaks during the dedication of The Heritage Foundation's former headquarters at 519 C St. NE in May 1980.
www.heritage.org /About/coors_tribute.cfm   (1029 words)

  
 Road Is Bumpy for Coors's Senate Bid (washingtonpost.com)
Candidate Coors, 57, meanwhile, has struggled mightily to distance himself from the lusty advertising and pro-gay social positions of the company that bears his name.
In a state where sipping a Coors Light in the stands at Coors Field is a standard summer pastime, Peter Coors had almost-total name recognition, broad business connections and millions of dollars to spend on a Senate campaign.
Brewery heir Peter H. Coors, left, and former House member Bob Schaffer are seeking the Republican nomination for the Senate race in Colorado.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A11791-2004Jul24.html   (1114 words)

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