 In May 2010 it was speculated in The Times that InBev ( Anheuser @-@ Busch InBev from 2008 onwards ) would attempt to sell the Boddingtons brand to another brewer after its failed attempt to sell the UK rights to Bass ale . The newspaper was damning of what it perceived as InBev 's mismanagement of the brand , which had " declined under AB InBev 's hands . The brand was once a leading part of the old Whitbread Beer Company , but its fortunes had dwindled since the closure in 2005 of the Strangeways Brewery . " 
