<P> On Otto Bremer's death in 1951, City Club beer began to be phased out . In 1954, stiff competition convinced the Bremers to leave the brewing industryl . The company was sold to Detroit - based brewer Pfeiffer . </P> <P> As City Club beer was removed from the market Schmidt beer was introduced, its acceptance helped greatly by the introduction of the scenic can series . Between 1947 and 1958 185 breweries either closed or sold to larger companies, this time was known as the great shakeout . It was during this time that Pfeiffer acquired Schmidt as well as many other smaller regional breweries . Without a strong national brand to sell Pfeiffer relied on multiple brands that had strong regional sales . This tactic along with the need to update the multitudes of smaller breweries the company had purchased, many of which had been poorly maintained, struggled with inefficiency problems and slumping sales sense prohibition lead the company to bankruptcy and dissolution in 1972 at which time the company and all of its assets were sold to G. Heileman of La Crosse Wisconsin . </P> <P> As with Pfeiffer; Heileman purchased smaller struggling breweries with regional bases, and again Schmidt's brewery was one of many in a vast beer empire, the brewery though ran at near capacity while it severed under Heileman and rivaled the La Crosse brewery, in efficiency . Along with its own brand the Brewery brewed Heileman's flagship brand Old Style, as well as Blatz, Grain Belt and Hauenstein . By 1981 Heileman was the 4th largest Brewing Company in the country . Still without a nationally recognized brand it was vulnerable to competition, in 1987 the company was bought out by corporate raider Alan Bond who had built is empire on junk bonds and when they crashed lost everything causing Heileman to be a causality of the largest financial collapse in Australian history and by 1990 brewing on the site would cease for the first time since in 1855 . </P> <P> In 1991 a group of Local investors reopened the Brewery under the name of the Minnesota Brewing Company . With the reopening of the brewery a contest was held to name the flagship beer for the brewery, the two names with the most votes were Landmark in first and Pig's Eye in second; the former for the Breweries iconic status in the West St. Paul neighborhood and the latter for the man credited with founding St. Paul . It was at this time that the iconic flashing Schmidt's sign that had long spanned the cat walk connecting the grain silos and the breweries tower was removed and replaced with the non-lighting "Landmark" sign . Landmark beer was met with little success and in 1992 the brewery released Pig's Eye Pilsner to much affair . It was at this time that the company started to revitalize the Grain Belt brand, and began contract brewing for many small independent companies including Pete's Wicked Ale, one of the first craft brewers in Minnesota . The brewery saw some success in the mid and late 1990s running the brewery at almost its capacity of 1.2 million barrels per year, the Brewery was also able to hire back all of the employees that had been laid off by Heileman's closer of the brewery who still needed work . Trouble found the brewery though and a combination of the brewery being too big to distribute just in the immediate area, but not large enough to distribute on a national level, outdated inefficient equipment, and the companies that contracted through them sometimes going out of business leaving the brewery full of vats of unpaid for beer as well as labels for said brands; caused the brewery to shut down for good in 2002 . </P>

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