Editing Anheuser-Busch (section)

==Operations and products==
Anheuser-Busch Companies operates as one of several subsidiaries in the North America zone unit of [[Anheuser-Busch InBev]] SA/NV (AB InBev) and it produces and distributes hundreds of products from the AB InBev portfolio.

On October 10, 2016, a $100 billion merger between Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller closed. The new company is trading as NewbelcoSABMiller.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/taranurin/2016/10/10/its-final-ab-inbev-closes-on-deal-to-buy-sabmiller/#2e5f846437d6 |title=It's Final: AB InBev Closes On Deal To Buy SABMiller |last=Nurin |first=Tara |date=October 10, 2016 |work=Forbes |access-date=January 28, 2017 |archive-date=February 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203010314/http://www.forbes.com/sites/taranurin/2016/10/10/its-final-ab-inbev-closes-on-deal-to-buy-sabmiller/#2e5f846437d6 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Corporate leadership===
[[Michel Doukeris]] is the current [[Chief executive officer|CEO]] of AB InBev, the parent company of the U.S. operation,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ab-inbev.com/who-we-are/people/ |title=Our Leaders &#124; AB InBev |access-date=April 16, 2023 |archive-date=April 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416002857/https://www.ab-inbev.com/who-we-are/people/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and Brendan Whitworth is the current CEO of the Anheuser-Busch subsidiary.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.anheuser-busch.com/about/leadership |title=Leadership &#124; Anheuser-Busch |access-date=April 16, 2023 |archive-date=April 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415170946/https://www.anheuser-busch.com/about/leadership |url-status=live}}</ref>

Previous corporate leaders of Anheuser-Busch include:
* 1860–1880 Eberhard Anheuser
* 1880–1913 Adolphus Busch
* 1913–1934 August A. Busch Sr.
* 1934–1946 [[Adolphus Busch III]]
* 1946–1971 [[Gussie Busch]]
* 1971–1974 [[Richard A. Meyer]]
* 1974–2002 [[August A. Busch III]]
* 2002–2006 [[Patrick Stokes (businessman)|Patrick Stokes]]
* 2006–2008 [[August A. Busch IV]]
In 2008 Anheuser-Busch was acquired by InBev, and the combined company was renamed Anheuser-Busch InBev.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Years
! CEO of parent company AB InBev
! Leader of the Anheuser-Busch subsidiary
|-
| 2008–2012
| rowspan="4"|[[Carlos Brito (businessman)|Carlos Brito]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ab-inbev.com/content/dam/abinbev/news-media/press-releases/2021/04/ABI_CEO_050621_EN.pdf |title=AB InBev Press Release |access-date=April 16, 2023 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185423/https://www.ab-inbev.com/content/dam/abinbev/news-media/press-releases/2021/04/ABI_CEO_050621_EN.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
| President [[Dave Peacock (businessman)|Dave Peacock]]
|-
| 2012–2014
| Luiz Edmond
|-
| 2014–2018
| João Castro Neves
|-
| 2018–2021
| Michel Doukeris
|-
| 2021–Present
| [[Michel Doukeris]]
| CEO Brendan Whitworth
|}

===Brewery operations===
[[File:Anheuser-Busch Brewery at St. Louis.jpg|thumb|Brewery at [[St. Louis]]|alt=]]
[[File:StLouisABPackaging Plant.JPG|thumb|The packaging plant in St. Louis|alt=]]
Anheuser-Busch Companies has operated 13 breweries, all located in the United States:
*[[St. Louis, Missouri]] (opened 1852)
*[[Newark, New Jersey]] (opened 1951)
*[[Los Angeles, California]] (opened 1954)
*[[Tampa, Florida]] (opened 1959, now closed)
*[[Houston, Texas]] (opened 1966)
*[[Columbus, Ohio]] (opened 1968)
*[[Jacksonville, Florida]] (opened 1969)
*[[Merrimack, New Hampshire]] (opened 1970)
*[[Williamsburg, Virginia]] (opened 1972)
*[[Fairfield, California]] (opened 1976)
*[[Baldwinsville, New York]] (opened 1983)
*[[Fort Collins, Colorado]] (opened 1988)
*[[Cartersville, Georgia]] (opened 1993)

The [[Anheuser-Busch Brewery (St. Louis, Missouri)|St. Louis brewery]], which opened in 1852, is a [[National Historic Landmark District]], and includes three buildings listed as [[National Historic Landmarks]]. Public tours of the brewery are offered. The tour takes visitors through the complex where they can see beer being made and packaged in a working part of the brewery. The company keeps a rotation of its famous [[Budweiser Clydesdales]] at its headquarters, and visitors to the brewery can observe the [[Clydesdale (horse)|clydesdales]] in their exercise field and see their places in the carriage house.

The brewery was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.<ref name="nrhpinv2">{{Cite journal |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NHLS/66000945_text |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Anheuser-Busch Brewery |date=April 1978 |format=PDF |author=Cecil McKithan and Stephen Lissandrello |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=June 22, 2009 |archive-date=July 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726041559/https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NHLS/66000945_text |url-status=live}} and {{NHLS url|id=66000945|title=''Accompanying four photos, from 1895, ca. 1900, 1942, and ca. 1970''|photos=y}}&nbsp;{{small|(1.90&nbsp;MB)}}</ref><ref name="nhlsum">{{cite web |url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=715&ResourceType=District |title=Anheuser-Busch Brewery |access-date=June 28, 2008 |work=National Historic Landmark summary listing |publisher=National Park Service |archive-date=August 4, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804114432/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=715&ResourceType=District |url-status=dead}}</ref> The landmarked area includes 189 structures spread over {{convert|142|acre|ha}}, including many red brick Romanesque ones "with square crenelated towers and elaborate details."<ref name="nrhpinv2"/> The Brew House, built in 1891–1892, is particularly notable for its "multi-storied hop chandeliers, intricate iron-work, and utilization of natural light".<ref name="nrhpinv2"/>

===Other operations===
Aside from supply operations like brewing and packaging, Anheuser-Busch Companies includes Anheuser-Busch Wholesale Operations Divisions (WOD), Anheuser-Busch Agricultural Operations, Anheuser-Busch Recycling Corporation, Eagle Packaging, and [[Busch Properties]], which manages subsidiary-owned property. Anheuser Busch owns and operates aluminum can plants (Metal Container Corporation). 
MCC supplies Anheuser Busch breweries and Pepsi Beverages Group fillers across the US. Suppliers to Anheuser-Busch Companies include [[Owens-Illinois]], which provides glass bottles to several Anheuser-Busch breweries. Anheuser-Busch also owns glass production facilities, such as the former Longhorn Glass, which provides glass for the Houston brewery. Anheuser-Busch Companies delivers its products to retailers through a network of more than 500 independent wholesalers and 13 wholly owned distributors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://anheuser-busch.com/index.php/our-company/operations/wholesale-operations/ |title=Anheuser-Busch Wholesaler Operations |publisher=Anheuser-Busch |access-date=August 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224132200/http://anheuser-busch.com/index.php/our-company/operations/wholesale-operations/ |archive-date=February 24, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

On February 20, 1953, Anheuser-Busch purchased the St. Louis Cardinals [[Major League Baseball|major league baseball]] club and owned them until March 21, 1996, when the club was sold to a group of private investors.

In 1966, [[Busch Memorial Stadium]] was paid for and built by the brewery and opened for business; Anheuser-Busch later purchased the stadium in 1981 for $53 million and removed the "Memorial" in its name. The stadium was demolished in late 2005 and replaced by a [[Busch Stadium|new ballpark]] in 2006. Anheuser-Busch signed an agreement to retain the "Busch Stadium" name on the new building through 2025.

Up until 2009, Anheuser-Busch was also one of the largest theme park owners/operators in the United States, with ten parks throughout the country through its entertainment division, Busch Entertainment Corporation, including its three SeaWorld locations. The company is now known as [[SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment]].

===Beverage products===
{{Main|Anheuser-Busch brands}}
Anheuser-Busch Companies is responsible for the production, importation and distribution of several AB InBev products, including three company-designated global brands, Budweiser, Stella Artois, and Beck's.<ref name="abinbevusreport2012"/> Other multi-country brands distributed or produced by Anheuser-Busch Companies include Leffe and Hoegaarden, while local brands produced by the company include [[Bass Brewery|Bass Pale Ale]], Bud Light, [[Busch Beer]], [[Landshark Lager]], Michelob, Michelob Ultra, [[Natural Light]], and [[Shock Top]].<ref name="abinbevusreport2012"/> The company also produces nonalcoholic beverages, [[malt liquor]]s (such as King Cobra and Hurricane), and flavored malt beverages (e.g. the Bacardi Silver family and [[Tequiza]]).{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}

On December 22, 2015, it was announced that Anheuser-Busch would purchase Breckenridge Brewery for an undisclosed sum.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wallace |first1=Alicia |title=Breckenridge Brewery sold to giant Anheuser-Busch's "High End" |url=http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_29298392/breckenridge-brewery-sold-giant-anheuser-buschs-high-end |website=denver Post |date=December 22, 2015 |access-date=December 22, 2015 |archive-date=January 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123161616/http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_29298392/breckenridge-brewery-sold-giant-anheuser-buschs-high-end |url-status=live}}</ref>