Anheuser-Busch Closing Three Breweries, Including Iconic Newark, New Jersey, Facility

Anheuser-Busch will close and sell its Newark, N.J., brewery and shutter two others in the U.S. to help optimize operations across its network, according to a Fox Business report and other news stories. The two other facilities that will close in the new year are Fairfield, Calif., and Merrimack, N.H.

The Newark facility opened in 1951 and is recognizable to anyone who has flown in or out of Newark International Airport, as it is directly across the highway from the airport and very visible to those coming and going. It will be sold to the Goodman Group in 2026, a property investment company that will repurpose the site for a new industrial and/or logistics owner/tenant.

Some 475 employees are expected to be impacted by the closures, and the company said it would offer them full-time jobs at other U.S. sites, and help relocate them to those locations. Employees who do not accept the relocation offer would be given severance packages and other assistance.

Since November 2023, Anheuser-Busch has poured hundreds of millions of capital investment into its specific upgrades at several of its U.S. breweries, to go along with committing nearly $2 billion in capital spending over the last five years.

Most recently, the company made a $7.4 million commitment in September 2025 to expand Michelob Ultra production at its Los Angeles, Calif., facility — which was the latest in a long string of investments in its U.S. breweries, supply chain and training offerings.

And, just last week, Anheuser-Busch announced it would acquire 85% of ready-to-drink (RTD) adult beverage company BeatBox for a purchase price of up to approximately $490 million — with a path to 100% ownership after five years based on a predetermined pricing formula.