Adolph Coors Co. and Canada’s Molson Inc. announced plans to merge Thursday in a deal that would combine two old-line, family-run breweries into the third-largest beermaker in North America.<br />
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The new company will be known as Molson Coors Brewing Co. and will market such brands as Coors Original and Coors Light, Molson Canadian, Keystone and Carling.<br />
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The deal was described as a merger of equals and would create a company with annual revenue of about $6 billion, putting it behind Anheuser-Busch and SAB Miller as the largest beer companies in North America.<br />
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