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2 unusual facts about Labatt Brewing Company


Percival Molson Memorial Stadium

The Alouettes' decision to return to the venue was problematic because the team was being sponsored by the Labatt Brewing Company and the stadium shared the name of its major competitor, Molson, though not named for it.

Pierre Desjardins

He also served as an executive with Canadian companies such as Domtar, Labatt Brewing Company, and Imperial Tobacco.


Ben McPeek

He quickly became the top jingle composer in Canada, and composed over 2,000 jingles during the 1960s and 1970s for such companies as Canadian National, Chargex, Coca-Cola, the Labatt Brewing Company, Speedy Muffler King, and the Toronto Dominion Bank among many others.

Mobile marketing

In Europe the first cross-carrier SMS shortcode campaign was run by Txtbomb in 2001 for an Island Records release, In North America it was the Labatt Brewing Company in 2002.

Syd Kessler

In 1988, John Labatt Ltd., a multinational Canadian corporation, with over $3 billion CAD in revenue, joint ventured with Kessler Music to create a new entity called Supercorp.


see also

John Sackville

John Sackville Labatt (1880 - 1952) president of the Labatt brewing company and a prominent kidnapping victim