Anheuser-Busch

Anheuser-Busch {{NYSE|BUD}}, the world's third largest brewing company in volume after InBev and SABMiller, is based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The company brews 35 different beers and malt liquors. Anheuser-Busch's best known beers include brands such as Budweiser, the Busch and Michelob families, and Natural Light. The company also produces a number of smaller-volume and specialty beers, nonalcoholic brews, malt liquors (King Cobra and the Hurricane family), and flavored malt beverages (e.g. the Bacardi family and Tequiza). "A-B", as the company is often called, owns 12 U.S. breweries.

Holdings

Overseas, Anheuser-Busch owns two breweries including the Budweiser Stag Brewing Company Ltd. in the United Kingdom; in addition, breweries in seven countries produce Budweiser locally. It owns:

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• 50% of Grupo Modelo in Mexico
• 29% of China's Harbin Brewery Group Ltd.
• 9.9% of Tsingtao Brewery Company Ltd. in China. Under an agreement with Tsingtao, Anheuser-Busch?s interest will increase to 27% during the next several years. A-B has 17 overseas offices.

In November 2004 A-B sold its 20% participation in CCU (Compañía de Cervecerías Unidas) in Chile to a Chilean Bank, in a public bid.

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Anheuser-Busch owns Busch Gardens, SeaWorld, and several other amusement parks and resorts, as well as production, transportation and packaging operations related to its beer business.

Related Topics:
Busch Gardens - SeaWorld - Amusement park - Resort

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The St. Louis Cardinals baseball team was owned by Anheuser-Busch from the mid 1950s until it was sold to a group of private investors in March 1996. Busch Stadium, paid for and built by the brewery in the early 1960s, still bears its name, although a new stadium is under construction and the current ballpark will be demolished by 2006. A-B has signed an agreement for the new ballpark to keep the "Busch Stadium" name.

Related Topics:
St. Louis Cardinals - 1950s - 1996 - Busch Stadium - The new ballpark

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(1) Source: Impact: Global News and Research for the Drinks Executive, Volume 33, Nos. 19 & 20, October 1 & 15, 2003.

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