Economic impacts of A-B lauded

FORT COLLINS – The impact of the Anheuser-Busch brewery on the Northern Colorado economy has been undeniably huge and widespread.

In addition to its 700 high-paying union jobs with an annual payroll of $42 million, the company pays about $5.8 million in property taxes and another $15 million to the city for its utility needs each year.

But that just begins to scratch the surface. A-B built Metal Container Corp. in Windsor to make its beer cans, and since 2005 O-I in Windsor has been producing the approximately 1 billion 12-ounce bottles A-B fills each year. Then there’s American Eagle Distributing, an…