MillerCoors Appeals Partially Denied ‘Corn Syrup’ Injunction

MillerCoors LLC‘s attempt to stop Anheuser-Busch Cos.’ Super Bowl ad campaign mocking the company for brewing beer with corn syrup should have been granted in its entirety, it said June 24.

Although the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin prevented AB from implying in its advertising that MillerCoors beers contain corn syrup, it didn’t stop AB from saying that the beers are “brewed with” corn syrup.

MillerCoors presented “strong evidence” that AB intended to deceive customers by playing on consumer health concerns about corn syrup, it told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh ...