Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> January 27, 2003

Fritz Maytag – Anchor Brewing Company

FRITZ MAYTAG is President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer and Brewmaster of Anchor Brewing Company San Francisco, California. Mr. Maytag's business activities include: owner, York Creek Vineyards, St. Helena, California; Chairman of the Board, Maytag Dairy Farms, Inc., Newton, Iowa. He is also a Director of the Brewers' Association of America. He graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1955 and Stanford University in 1959, and also at Stanford, pursued part of a graduate study program in Japanese. Profile
TWST: Could we begin with a short history of Anchor Brewing

Company and then a brief overview of what you're doing at the

present time?

Mr. Maytag: Our company started back in the 1860s or