The nearly 75-year-old Anheuser-Busch beer brewery in Newark will close early next year after being sold, the company said.

The St. Louis-based company announced Thursday that the plant along Routes 1 & 9 will close early next year along with Anheuser-Busch breweries in Fairfield, California and Merrimack, New Hampshire.

The 475-employees at the three plants will be offered jobs at one of Anheuser-Busch’s other facilities along with money to move and training to learn new skills. Employees who don’t want to relocated will be offered severance packages.

“We will be shifting production from these three facilities to our other U.S. facilities and these changes will enable us to invest even more in our remaining operations and in our portfolio of growing, industry-leading brands,” the compa

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