Pabst Blue Ribbon is turning a $70,000 beer heist into a viral marketing moment
A truck carrying thousands of pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer was stolen from a California distribution center using fake paperwork. The brewery offered a reward to get the beer back and then began using the theft as a marketing opportunity.
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6 sourcesPabst Blue Ribbon offers $20,000 reward to help find its missing beer
Pabst Blue Ribbon is turning a $70,000 beer heist into a viral marketing moment
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15 sourcesPabst Blue Ribbon offers $20K reward after beer stolen in cargo heist
Pabst Blue Ribbon offers $20K reward for information after 40,000-pound beer heist in Montclair
Pabst Blue Ribbon offers $20,000 reward to recover 40,000 lbs. of stolen beer in California
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4 sourcesPabst offers $20K reward after thieves swipe massive truckload of PBR
40,000 lbs. of beer stolen in 2 separate incidents; Pabst Blue Ribbon offers reward
Southern California Beer Heists Nab Three Truckloads of Brewers' Booze in Past Two Weeks
Beer bandits swipe PBR truck hauling 50,000 cans in California, leaving brand pleading for help
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2 articlesPabst offers reward for return of 40,000 pound haul of beer stolen from California warehouse
Thousands of cans of Pabst beer stolen in two separate heists in California
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The story so far
6 developments- Aug 28Massive Pabst Blue Ribbon heist in California; brewery issues ultimatum
- Aug 30Only center coverage:Pabst Blue Ribbon gives thieves deadline to return 50,000 stolen beers
- Aug 3140,000 lbs. of beer stolen in 2 separate incidents; Pabst Blue Ribbon offers reward
- Aug 31No pint-sized matter: Thieves steal $70,000 in Pabst beer from California warehouse
- Sep 2Pabst Blue Ribbon offers $20K reward for information after 40,000-pound beer heist in Montclair, California
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Quiet for 45 daysLast development · Sep 2 — Pabst Blue Ribbon offers $20K reward for information after 40,000-pound beer heist in Montclair, California