DENVER — The President and CEO of Molson Coors announced this morning the company is closing offices in Denver as part of a revitalization plan that will bring a new name, new North American headquarters, a new leadership team, and the elimination of hundreds of jobs.
Headquarters for the company will relocate from Denver to Chicago as the North American commercial headquarters. According to a blog post, "most support functions, including finance, information technology, procurement, supply chain, legal and human resources, will be consolidated in Milwaukee. The company will continue to maintain global business services offices there and in Bucharest, Romania."
The changes impact up to 500 jobs in the North American and Moslon Coors International divisions.
“In my mind, there is no choice. We must change,” said Gavin Hattersley in a release. (The changes) “will put us on the path to achieve consistent top-line growth by enabling us to do things that today simply are not possible.”
At the beginning of the year, the company will be renamed Molson Coors Beverage Co. with the business units in the United States, Latin America and Canada coming under one North American unit; the remainder of Moslon Coors International will fold into Molson Coors Europe.
This announcement comes as the company reports a third-quarter loss of $402.8 million. During the same period last year the company reported a profit. Stock for the company has dropped more than 3% in the last year.
Read more in CEO Hattersley's post: millercoorsblog.com
