UNITED STATES |
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FORM 8-K |
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CURRENT REPORT |
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 2, 2007 |
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The Boston Beer Company, Inc. |
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Massachusetts |
001-14092 |
04-3284048 |
One Design Center Place, Suite 850, Boston, MA |
02210 |
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Registrant's telephone number, including area code (617) 368-5000 |
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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2 below): |
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Item 1.01. |
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On November 2, 2007, the Company entered into a Glass Bottle Supply Agreement with Anchor Glass Container Corporation ("Anchor"). The Agreement, which takes effect on January 1, 2009, calls for Anchor to be the exclusive supplier of glass bottles for the Company's Cincinnati, Ohio brewery and its Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania brewery, if the acquisition of that brewery is consummated, and also establishes the terms on which Anchor may supply glass bottles to other breweries where the Company brews its beers. |
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SIGNATURES |
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized. |
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The Boston Beer Company, Inc. |
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Date: November 5, 2007 |
/s/ MARTIN F. ROPER |
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Martin F. Roper |
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* Print name and title of the signing officer under his signature |
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