The Rocky Mountain News, a Denver newspaper, is reporting today that Molson Coors vice chairman Pete Coors, who will serve as chairman of MillerCoors, says the future headquarters of the merged companies will probably be located in a city other than Denver or Milwaukee.
The newspaper's story also cited unnamed sources that indicated that MillerCoors is strongly considering Chicago or Dallas as headquarters sites.
"There's a fairly strong sense a neutral site would be important," Coors told the newspaper. "If you pick one city over another, people in the other city will say, 'They're running the deal.' I don't think that's particularly healthy."
A decision about where the MillerCoors headquarters will be has not been made, Coors told the newspaper.
"You can talk about Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Atlanta, New York, Boston - there's a lot of options available to us," he said. "I don't know where it's going to end up."
When the merger was announced in October, MillerCoors executives said they had not decided where the headquarters would be, but they said the breweries in Milwaukee and Denver would remain in operation.
"There's going to be a continued huge presence in Colorado and Milwaukee," Coors told the Rocky Mountain News. "You just don't give up that legacy that both companies have in their respective communities."
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