Anheuser-Busch Companies Earns Annual Vision for America Award

The Vision for America Award will be presented at an awards event at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago October 28, 2003. Accepting will be August A. Busch III, Chairman of the Board of Anheuser-Busch.

“Anheuser-Busch has demonstrated a very clear commitment to finding innovative ways to abide by Keep America Beautiful’s tenets of ‘reduce, reuse and recycle,’” Steve Reinemund, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo Inc. and chairman of the Vision for America Award Dinner Committee, says.

“Aluminum cans used by the beverage industry have undergone dramatic improvements in design over the years, in large part because of Anheuser-Busch’s support,” Reinemund adds. “In fact, Anheuser-Busch’s corporate leadership has been instrumental in minimizing the beverage industry’s contribution to solid waste in our country over the past 30 years. Anheuser-Busch’s ongoing commitment to environmental stewardship and environmental education and to direct involvement in community improvement efforts is a model for other corporations to emulate,” Reinemund says. 

Serving with Reinemund on the Vision for America Award Dinner Committee are: R. David Hoover, chairman of the board, president and CEO, Ball Corporation; Charles F. Knight, chairman, Emerson Electric Co.; Joseph H. Lemieux, chairman, president and CEO, Owens-Illinois Inc.; Robert Scarpelli, chairman, DDB Chicago Inc./DDB U.S. chief creative officer, DDB Worldwide; Andrew Taylor, chairman and CEO, Enterprise Rent-a-Car; Edward E. Whitacre, chairman and CEO, SBC Communications Inc.

Anheuser-Busch is the 18th recipient of the Vision for America Award. Since 1986, Keep America Beautiful has presented this award annually to corporations that have significantly enhanced civic, environmental and social stewardship throughout the United States.

“We are pleased to focus the spotlight on the accomplishments of Anheuser-Busch by conferring Keep America Beautiful’s highest honor upon it,” G. Raymond Empson, president of Keep America Beautiful Inc., says. “It is our hope that Anheuser-Busch’s proud example of more than 100 years of corporate and environmental responsibility will inspire other corporations to follow a similar path.”

For more information on Anheuser-Busch’s environmental efforts, visit www.abenvironment.com.