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Headquarters St. Louis, MO
CEO August A. Busch IV
Total Revenue 15,717.1 Million Dollars
Net Income 1,965.2 Million Dollars
Reporting Cycle quarterly
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Anheuser-Busch operates 12 breweries in the United States and several others overseas. In the United States, the company holds a 48.4 percent share of U.S. beer sales. Worldwide, Anheuser-Busch's beer sales volume was 125 million barrels in 2006. The St. Louis-based company's subsidiaries include one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of aluminum beverage containers and America's top recycler of aluminum cans. Anheuser-Busch also has interests in malt production, rice milling, real estate development, turf farming, metalized and paper label printing, bottle production and transportation services.

Sector: Beverages (Alcoholic)

Reducing Product/Service Impacts Greenhouse Gases Air Pollution (other than GHG) Energy Use Biodiversity Material Use Waste Water Use Hazardous Spills Environmental Compliance Environmental Expenditures Community Impact Local Procurement Capacity Building Child Labour Indigenous Rights Cancer Research HIV/AIDS Research Human Rights Employee Wages Training and Benefits Employment Equity Collective Bargaining Occupational Health and Safety Military Involvement Customer Health and Safety Accessibility to Product Information Customer Satisfaction Marketing Ethics Customer Privacy Organics Fair Trade Animal Testing Government Assistance Direct Economic Impact Political Contributions Anti-Corruption Anti-Competitive Behaviour CEO Compensation Category Breakdown
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Environment [login to edit summary]

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  1. Reducing Product/Service Impacts (13)
  2. Greenhouse Gases (6)
  3. Air Pollution (other than GHG) (2)
  4. Energy Use (3)
  5. Biodiversity (1)
  6. Material Use (2)
  7. Waste (4)
  8. Water Use (7)
  9. Hazardous Spills (2)
  10. Environmental Compliance (4)
  11. Environmental Expenditures

Anheuser-Busch, Inc. has very strong recycling initiatives. In 2007, they recycled 364,000 metric tonnes (more than 27 billion cans) around the world. Overall, 97% (2.27 million metric tonnes) of total solid waste generated in their operations was recycled. 3.03 million metric tonnes of direct and indirect greenhouse gases were emitted in 2006; however, they have set a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, on an absolute basis, by 5% before 2010. The Company has been making progress in their water use, reducing the amount used per barrel by nearly 12%. These changes in the manufacturing process translated into savings of 93 million gallons of water annually. It is interesting to note that when asked to state their MWh of electricity purchased and consumed globally, Anheuser-Busch responded by saying that information regarding energy use is considered confidential in that it provides content of competitive interest.

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Society [login to edit summary]

Indicators
  1. Community Impact (13)
  2. Local Procurement
  3. Capacity Building
  4. Child Labour
  5. Indigenous Rights
  6. Cancer Research (1)
  7. HIV/AIDS Research
  8. Human Rights
  9. Employee Wages Training and Benefits (6)
  10. Employment Equity (1)
  11. Collective Bargaining
  12. Occupational Health and Safety (15)
  13. Military Involvement

Anheuser-Busch, Inc. has contributed to communities through a number of initiatives including, the provision of more than 200,000 safe rides home from bars and restaurants; participating in alcohol awareness and education programs with 585 colleges and universities; and instructing server training programs on responsible-serving techniques to help them prevent alcohol abuse, drunk driving and underage drinking. In preparation for potential natural disasters in the Southeastern United States, Anheuser-Busch has pre-staged 12,850 cases of canned drinking water so that they are able to provide immediate relief.

Anheuser-Busch provides its employees with on-site fitness centres which seem to be extremely beneficial to a number of employees. The Company boasts that through their weight watchers program, roughly 200 participants have cumulatively lost 4,500 pounds.

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Product Responsibility [login to edit summary]

Indicators
  1. Customer Health and Safety (1)
  2. Accessibility to Product Information
  3. Customer Satisfaction
  4. Marketing Ethics (9)
  5. Customer Privacy
  6. Organics (1)
  7. Fair Trade
  8. Animal Testing

Anheuser-Busch is governed by a voluntary Beer Institute Advertising and Marketing Code as well as their own International Advertising and Marketing Code. Furthermore, Anheuser-Busch follows what seems to be an industry marketing standard of placing advertising in forms of media where at least 70% of the audience is expected to be of legal drinking age.

Anheuser-Busch offers two USDA certified organic beers: Wild Hop lager and Stone Mill pale ale.

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Corporate Citizen [login to edit summary]

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  1. Government Assistance
  2. Direct Economic Impact (2)
  3. Political Contributions (5)
  4. Anti-Corruption (2)
  5. Anti-Competitive Behaviour
  6. CEO Compensation (1)

As part of the company’s commitment to corporate responsibility, Anheuser Busch has employed Aristotle, Inc a technology firm to implement an independent age-verification system for its new online entertainment network, Bud.TV, which it launched on February 4. 2007, as the broadcast contents are for adult audiences.

Anheuser-Busch ranked number 1 in the beverage industry for social responsibility for the fifth consecutive year since 2004, in Fortune magazine’s “America’s Most Admired Companies” and “Global Most Admired Companies.”

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