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Local Business Leader Reacts to Anheuser-Busch Takeover

By Jason Smith

Oswego, NY – A central New York business leader is confident that Belgian brewer InBev will keep Anheuser-Busch's Baldwinsville plant open after a $52 billion acquisition of the St.Louis-based brewer.

WRVO's Jason smith spoke with Irwin Davis, President of the Syracuse Metropolitan Development Association about the takeover.

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