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Anheuser-Busch receives Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility's 1997 "Corporate Vision" award.

New York, NY (May 16, 1997) – The Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. has been chosen to receive the 1997 "Corporate Vision" award, which is conferred annually by the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR). The St. Louis-based company was honored this past week during HACR's "Spring Symposium on Corporate Responsibility" at Columbia University in New York, NY. The award was accepted by August A. Busch, III, Chairman of the Board and President of the nation's largest brewery.

"Anheuser-Busch is consistently ranked among the nation's top corporations in its efforts to invest in the Hispanic consumer and is being recognized for its support of our community's development in a number of critical areas," said HACR President Richard Jose Bela. "It is unquestionably one of the pioneers in Hispanic corporate-community relations and is most deserving of the award," he added.

The "Corporate Vision" award was initiated in 1995 by HACR to recognize U.S. corporations that demonstrate an exemplary record of commitment and leadership in corporate-community relations directed toward the Hispanic community. Through ongoing, comprehensive studies, HACR measures levels of "economic reciprocity" by Fortune 1000 companies related to the Hispanic consumer market. The eleven member coalition of the nation's major Hispanic organizations ascertains performance in four areas: Employment, Procurement, Philanthropy and Governance.

"We are honored to receive the 'Corporate Vision' award and are extremely proud of our history with the Hispanic community – in the United States, Puerto Rico and increasingly throughout Latin America," said Busch. "We invest in our consumers and their communities, not only because it makes us good corporate citizens, but because it's good business," he added.

Anheuser-Busch is the recognized pioneer in Hispanic cause-related marketing and has one of the more enviable track records in corporate contributions related to the Hispanic consumer market. It was recognized in the HACR Philanthropy study as being the only Fortune 500 company that has historically contributed to all eleven of the national Hispanic organizations that constitute HACR's board of directors. The company has demonstrated its commitment to supporting Latino projects in areas like: higher education, leadership and economic development and cultural arts, to name a few.

In the area of education, Anheuser-Busch has been the largest corporate supporter of the National Hispanic Scholarship Fund (NHSF). Since 1976, NHSF has provided some 30 thousand scholarships to Hispanics across the nation. Anheuser-Busch and its wholesaler system have contributed more than $28 million to the fund during the last 16 years.

With over 24,000 employees worldwide and 850 independent beer wholesalers, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. is the world's largest brewer and one of the largest theme park operators in the U.S. It is also the nation's second-largest manufacturer of aluminum beverage containers.

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