Comment - Nelson's Column - Lessons from the Malaise
By Larry Nelson | 16 February 2010
You wouldn't think the normally jovial Leo Kiely akin to a harbinger of doom. Yet for the veteran US beer man, who in 1993 joined Coors and today heads the energetic efforts of an increasingly muscular MillerCoors, times have never been tougher, writes Larry Nelson.
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You wouldn't think the normally jovial Leo Kiely akin to a harbinger of doom. Yet for the veteran US beer man, who in 1993 joined Coors and today heads the energetic efforts of an increasingly muscular MillerCoors, times have never been tougher, writes Larry Nelson.

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