Canada & United States: MillerCoors names business development manager for its craft brewing unit

Richard “Dick” Leinenkugel has been named business development manager for Tenth and Blake Beer Co., the craft brewing unit of MillerCoors LLC, Denver Business Journal reported on December, 7.

MillerCoors is the U.S. joint venture of Denver- and Montreal-based Molson Coors Brewing Co. and London-based SABMiller PLC.

The move marks a return to the beer brewing business for Leinenkugel, who previously served as an executive with Miller Brewing Co. of Milwaukee and the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co., a Chippewa Falls, Wis.-based beer brewer founded by his family and purchased by Miller in 1988.

Chicago-based MillerCoors created Tenth and Blake earlier this year to manage its craft beer brands like Blue Moon and Leinenkugel.

The name refers to the company’s Milwaukee brewery at 1515 N. 10th St., where some Leinenkugel craft beers are made, and to Blake Street in Denver, where MillerCoors’ Blue Moon Brewing is located.

08 December, 2010