Anheuser-Busch announced this week that it plans to spend $30 million to upgrade its brewery and canning plant in Jacksonville, Florida.
Company officials said that the improvements to brewing and packaging equipment would allow the facility to increase production of Michelob Ultra, the Budweiser brewer’s top seller.
The Jacksonville brewery opened in 1969 and the can plant followed five years later. The company said it has invested $100 million in the campus over the past five years.
“Investing in our Jacksonville facilities enables us to brew more of the highest-quality American beers that consumers love,” Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth said in a statement.
Anheuser-Busch said it invested more than $300 million in its U.S. facilities last year, although it is also shutting down breweries in New Jersey, New Hampshire and Central California.
The brewer also announced this week that it has exercised its option to reacquire a minority share of its U.S. metal packaging business for $3 billion.
