Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc./ˈænhaɪzərˈbʊʃ/ is an American brewing company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev). The company operates 13 breweries in the United States.[1] Until December 2009, it also was one of the largest theme park operators in the United States, operating ten theme parks through the company’s family entertainment division, Busch Entertainment Corporation. It is based in St. Louis, Missouri, which is also the headquarters for the AB InBev North America unit.
Charitableoutreach is at the core of Anheuser-Busch’s business philosophy and has been since 1906 when the company donated money to the American Red Cross to support those impacted by the San Francisco earthquake.
Since 1997, Anheuser-Busch and the Anheuser-Busch Foundation have contributed more than $515 million to charitable organizations, including those that support education, the environment, economic development, disaster relief, and military personnel.
Anheuser-Busch Nonprofit Service:
Many employees also give countless hours to help worthy organizations. We applaud their commitments and support their efforts through various Employee Volunteer programs.
One of the best ways to enhance the enjoyment of life is to pursue passions and interests. Education makes this pursuit possible. Anheuser-Busch values the impact education has on individual lives and the community as a whole through support to organizations. Our goal is to support programs and organizations that provide access to and successful completion of higher education degrees.
We are proud to work with these partners:
Hispanic Scholarship Fund: During his 2010 and 2011 concert tour, Mexican singing legend Vicente “El Rey” Fernández, along with Budweiser, brought together two of his passions—music and education—to help raise funds for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF). As part of Budweiser’s longtime commitment to the Hispanic community, El Rey and the King of Beers donated a scholarship to a local college student for each of the performances on his tour. Anheuser-Busch provided $200,000 for this special partnership program. In total, Anheuser-Busch provided the HSF with closer to $1 million in support in the last two years, including donating $500 to the HSF for each goal scored during the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa. Since 1982, Anheuser-Busch, Budweiser and our wholesalers have donated more than $24 million to HSF, the nation’s leading non-profit organization that supports Hispanic higher education.
The Anheuser-Busch Foundation also matches employee contributions to educational institutions and funds through the Matching Gift Program, which matches up to $5,000 a year for each individual donor. Through the Matching Gift Program, Anheuser-Busch and our employees have provided nearly $13 million to support education over the last five years.
UNCF: To live up to the ideal expressed in UNCF’s universally-recognized motto, ”A mind is a terrible thing to waste,”® UNCF helps students go to and through college by awarding 10,000 students each year through 400 scholarship and internship programs so that students from low- and moderate-income families can afford college tuition, books and room and board. Partners for more than 35 years, Anheuser-Busch and its Foundation have given millions of dollars to support the mission on the UNCF. Including our founding sponsorship of the UNCF An Evening of Stars® in 1974.
Teach For America: The Anheuser-Busch Foundation donated $150,000 to the Teach For America Corps–St. Louis, which Anheuser-Busch has supported since the program first came to St. Louis. Anheuser-Busch executives, including North America Zone president Luiz Edmond, were also guest teachers at St. Louis public schools, visiting the classrooms of Teach For America teachers to impart lessons that draw on their experience in business and beyond
Anheuser-Busch has helped disaster victims since 1906, when Adolphus Busch donated funds to help San Francisco earthquake victims. When disasters strike, Anheuser-Busch and the Anheuser-Busch Foundation are ready to be part of the recovery by providing a helping hand to our friends in their time of need.
Since 1988, Anheuser-Busch has packaged more than 72 million cans of fresh drinking water and donated it to emergency relief organizations following natural disasters.
- In 2012-2013, Anheuser-Busch donated more than 1.6 million cans of water in more than 10 U.S. states to support disaster relief related to tornadoes and storms, wildfires and floods affecting many communities.
- In 2011, Anheuser-Busch donated more than 1.8 million cans of water in more than 15 U.S. statesto support disaster relief related to tornadoes and storms, wildfires and floods affecting 43 communities.
- In 2010, Anheuser-Busch donated approximately 850,000 cans of drinking water for U.S. disaster relief, including support to help people affected by water main breaks in Kentucky, winter storms in South Dakota, an oil spill in Michigan, forest fires in Colorado, and flooding in Tennessee, Iowa, Nebraska, Kentucky and Wyoming.
- When hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, our breweries supplied 9.4 million cans of drinking water to relief agencies.
Anheuser-Busch is the founding sponsor of the American Red Cross Ready Rating Program with a $2.1 million grant, and was the first company to implement it. The program helps schools and businesses with their emergency planning and preparedness efforts to help them face a number of emergencies that could disrupt their operations, ranging from natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods to outbreaks of illness such as the flu. In May 2011, the Red Cross announced the national launch of the program, with a newly designed website available at www.readyrating.org.
