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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. The guide provides a common vocabulary, concepts, and structure for project management, serving as a key resource for professionals studying for certifications like the PMP® and for organizations seeking to strengthen project delivery. #### How is AI changing project management? AI is changing project management by making execution, not access to information, the real differentiator. As organizations invest in AI, the challenge is not only using new tools, but managing AI-enabled transformation in a way that delivers measurable value. Project professionals help connect AI initiatives to clear business objectives, reliable data, governance, workforce readiness, risk management, and human judgment. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. The PMP is for experienced project managers and requires a combination of formal education and years of documented project leadership experience, making it a more advanced and globally recognized certification. #### How does PMI support social impact? PMI supports social impact by helping individuals, nonprofits, NGOs, and communities use project management to turn purpose into measurable outcomes. Through the PMI Educational Foundation, PMI expands access to project management education for youth worldwide, including underserved and underrepresented populations. Through Project Managers Without Borders, PMI connects chapters and volunteers with nonprofits and NGOs that need project management expertise to strengthen the effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability of social initiatives. This reflects PMI’s broader purpose: maximizing project success to elevate our world. ### Sources * Project Management Institute | [pmi.org](/c/pmi-2026-q3/home?i=270d2232-8d65-4af4-8692-67556cc09881&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey—Fourteenth Edition" | [pmi.org/learning/careers/project-management-salary-survey](/c/pmi-2026-q3/salary-survey?i=270d2232-8d65-4af4-8692-67556cc09881&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Global Project Management Talent Gap" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/global-project-management-talent-gap](/c/pmi-2026-q3/talent-gap?i=270d2232-8d65-4af4-8692-67556cc09881&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Maximizing Project Success" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/project-success?i=270d2232-8d65-4af4-8692-67556cc09881&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse Report 2025: Boosting Business Acumen” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/boosting-business-acumen](/c/pmi-2026-q3/business-acumen?i=270d2232-8d65-4af4-8692-67556cc09881&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse of the Profession® 2026: Driving Success in Complex Projects” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/driving-success-in-complex-projects](/c/pmi-2026-q3/complex-projects?i=270d2232-8d65-4af4-8692-67556cc09881&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Step Up: Redefining the Path to Project Success with M.O.R.E.” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/path-to-project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/more-mindset?i=270d2232-8d65-4af4-8692-67556cc09881&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI Education Foundation, PMIEF 2024 Annual Report, [pmi.org PMIEF 2024 Annual Report (PDF)](/c/pmi-2026-q3/pmief-report?i=270d2232-8d65-4af4-8692-67556cc09881&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) ### FAQ structured data (JSON-LD, optional) by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 27, 2014 10:45 AM UTC  Getty Images Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 27, 2014 10:45 AM UTC Beer is not selling the way it used to. U.S. sales of the beverage declined in four of the past five years. Between 2007 and 2012, beer sales fell by 2.3%, or more than 4.8 million barrels. This overall drop in beer sales is yet another challenge many of the once most popular U.S. brands have to overcome as they continue to lose market share. According to data provided by [**Beer Marketer’s Insights**](http://www.beerinsights.com/), American sales of nine major brands, including the once top-selling Budweiser, declined by more than 25% over the past five years. Michelob Light’s U.S. sales declined by nearly 70%. The following are the nine beers Americans no longer drink. According to Eric Shepard, executive editor at Beer Marketer’s Insights, major brewers point to the lingering effects of the [recession](http://topics.time.com/recession/) as the reason beer sales are down. While this is clearly the case, it is likely just one of the causes. **MORE:** [**America’s Most Content (and Miserable) States**](http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/02/20/americas-most-content-and-miserable-states/) Wine and spirits have done much better, especially as they added flavored brands. “The \[beer\] brewers have dabbled in that, and have had some success with, for example, Redd’s [Apple](http://topics.time.com/apple/) Ale, but nowhere near the success that flavored vodkas and flavored whiskeys have had,” Shepard said. Flavored and craft beers have performed extremely well in a sector that is otherwise on the downswing. This is also true for specialty beers with creative labels and slightly higher alcohol content, an attempt to appeal to the segment that is increasingly attracted to wines and liquors. Bud Platinum, which has higher alcohol content than major beer brands, sold 1.8 million cases when it was introduced in 2012, becoming the 19th best-selling mainstream beer in the country last year. While this trend has hurt the beers that declined the most between 2007 and 2012, most of these brands have been losing ground for much longer than past five years. “The history of beer brands in the U.S. has generally been — and there are exceptions — once they start to decline, it’s very, very difficult to reverse it,” said Shepard. Breweries like Michelob and Old Milwaukee have been falling out of favor for decades. **MORE:** [**10 Weird Things Thieves Steal**](http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/02/04/10-weird-things-thieves-steal/) 24/7 Wall St. identified the nine beers Americans no longer drink based on Beer Marketer’s Insights top beer brands with at least 600,000 barrels in sales in either 2007 or 2012, and with sales declines of 30% or more over the same period. According to Shepard, sales of less than 600,000 barrels can result in less reliable data. Amstel Light, which was identified as one of the beer brands with the biggest drops in our analysis last year, was not considered this year because it had less than 600,000 barrels in sales both years. We also excluded flavored malt beverages and craft beers brands from the analysis. These are the nine beers Americans no longer drink. **1\. Michelob Light** **\> Sales loss (2007-2012):** 69.6% **\> Brewer:** Anheuser-Busch Inbev **\> Barrels sold (2012)**: 350,000 The Michelob Light franchise “is a sinking brand at this point. There’s still a bunch of Michelobs, and Ultra is growing,” Shepard said. But the Michelob brand as a whole, he explained, “appears to be a sinking ship.” Introduced in 1978 by Anheuser Busch and styled after a European lager, Michelob Light has struggled recently more than any other top beer brand. Shipments declined by nearly 70% between 2007 and 2012, falling from more than 1,000,000 barrels to just 350,000. **MORE:** [**Cities With Highest and Lowest Taxes**](http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/02/19/cities-paying-the-most-and-least-in-taxes/) **2\. Budweiser Select** **\> Sales loss (2007-2012):** 61.5% **\> Brewer:** Anheuser-Busch Inbev **\> Barrels sold (2012)**: 625,000 Bud Select was introduced in 2005\. The beer has slightly fewer calories than Bud Lite, which has 110 calories, and is marketed as a “light beer for people who love beer.” The brand has not sold well since its introduction, with a 1 million barrel decline in sales between 2007 and 2012, or about 62%. According to Shepard, “Budweiser tried a lot of different things to fix the ‘Bud’ brand. Bud Select was one of them. It didn’t work.” **3\. Milwaukee’s Best Premium** **\> Sales loss (2007-2012):** 58.5% **\> Brewer:** MillerCoors **\> Barrels sold (2012):** 650,000 Milwaukee’s Best was first brewed in 1895 by the Gettelman Brewing Company. In 1961, the small brewery was acquired by Miller, which introduced Milwaukee’s Best nationally in 1984\. MillerCoors has marketed the brand as affordable beer “brewed for a man’s taste.” No MillerCoors brand suffered more than Milwaukee’s Best between 2007 and 2012\. Over that time, annual sales fell by 915,000 barrels. According to Shepard, over the past few years, sub-premium brewers raised their prices slightly in hopes of getting drinkers to switch to higher levels of beer. Competition for Milwaukee’s Best drinkers became more fierce as a result. Shepard added that before this happened, the brand had already been “fading anyway.” **MORE:** [**States Where Children Are Struggling the Most to Read**](http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/02/07/states-where-children-are-struggling-the-most-to-read/) **4\. Miller Genuine Draft** **\> Sales loss (2007-2012):** 56.4% **\> Brewer:** MillerCoors **\> Barrels sold (2012):** 1,390,000 Owned by MillerCoors brewing company and introduced nationally in 1986, MGD is counterintuitively a bottled beer. Since it is not heat pasteurized — the process most bottled beers undergo — the brand is marketed as “the fresh taste of draft beer in a bottle.” Between 2007 and 2012, Miller Genuine Draft sales fell by more than 1.7 million barrels, the fourth largest decline out of all high-selling non-craft beer brands. U.S. market share fell from 1.5% to 0.7% in that time. **5\. Old Milwaukee** **\> Sales loss (2007-2012):** 54.0% **\> Brewer:** Pabst Brewing Company **\> Barrels sold (2012):** 400,000 Old Milwaukee, which is currently owned by Pabst Blue Ribbon brewing company, has been brewed since 1849\. The brand, including its light variety, won a number of [gold medals](http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/12/09/nine-beers-americans-no-longer-drink-2/2/#) awarded by the Great American Beer Festival. In 2011, on his own initiative, comedian and actor Will Ferrell starred in a number of Old Milwaukee commercials free of charge. However, gold medals and marketing boosts did little to improve the brand’s downward trend. Old Milwaukee sold 470,000 less barrels of beer in 2012 than it did in 2007, more than a 50% decline in sales. For the rest of the list, [click here](http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/12/09/nine-beers-americans-no-longer-drink-2/2/). **Read more from 24/7** [**Wall Street**](http://topics.time.com/wall-street/)**:**[10 U.S. Cities Where Violent Crime Is Soaring](http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/02/11/ten-u-s-cities-where-violent-crime-is-soaring/) [The 10 Richest Presidents](http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/02/13/the-ten-richest-u-s-presidents-2/) [America’s Fastest Growing (and Shrinking) Economies](http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/01/31/americas-fastest-growing-and-shrinking-economies/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/10348/9-beers-americans-no-longer-drink/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/10348/9-beers-americans-no-longer-drink/"},"headline":"9 Beers Americans No Longer Drink","datePublished":"2014-02-27T10:45:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:30:42.882Z","description":"No love for this glug glug","url":"https://time.com/10348/9-beers-americans-no-longer-drink/","keywords":["Food & Drink","Beer"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6cf243f8afeb8f66/6986835a810bbb2279c903ae/sb10070109j-001-e13437518721551.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6cf243f8afeb8f66/6986835a810bbb2279c903ae/sb10070109j-001-e13437518721551.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Beer","caption":"Getty Images","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/food-drink/","name":"Food & Drink"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/10348/9-beers-americans-no-longer-drink/","name":"9 Beers Americans No Longer Drink"}}]}] ```