Abstract
Anheuser-Busch is the leading American brewery, with a 48.9 percent share of the United States beer sales to retail businesses. The company, formally American owned, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Belgium based Anheuser-Busch InBev. Anheuser-Busch operates 12 breweries in the United States as well as nearly 20 additional breweries world wide and is responsible for brewing the world’s largest selling beers – Budweiser and Bud Light. A true customer focused, sales driven organization, Anheuser-Busch InBev manages a portfolio of well over 200 beer brands. In addition to proven success financially, the company is ranked No. 2 among beverage companies and No. 1 among beer companies in FORTUNE Magazine’s “World’s most Admired Companies” list in 2010.
Basic Company Information
Anheuser-Busch InBev operates in the ‘Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco” industry category brewing hundreds of beers across it’s multiple brands; it’s most popular ones being Michelob, Budweiser and Busch, to name a few. The company is most famous for producing the top two most popular beers in the world – Budweiser and Bud Light. The following is basic company information regarding the firm.
Name of Firm
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Stock Ticker Symbol
BUD & ABI
Stock Exchange Where Traded
NYSE & Euronext
Primary and Secondary NAICS Codes
42810 & 312140
State of Incorporation
St. Louis, Missouri US
Year of Incorporation
1875
Independent Auditor
KPMG
Table 1. Company Overview Note. The data are from Investing portion of MSN Money, 2011, retrieved February 1, 2011 from https://moneycentral.msn.com/investments/stock-price?symbol=BUD
History of Anheuser-Busch InBev
Eberhard Anheuser, a wealthy soap maker from Germany purchased the brewery that would later become known as Anheuser- Busch when it was nearing bankruptcy in 1860. Anheuser was joined by his son-in-law, Adolphus Busch and they became partners in brewing in 1869. When Eberhard