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Race Fans on Fast Track to Recycling

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 3, 2008) – Race fans will have an opportunity to support the environment and their favorite drivers at the Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola this week at historic Daytona International Speedway.

Partnering with Daytona International Speedway (DIS) and Daytona Budweiser, the local Anheuser-Busch wholesaler, Anheuser-Busch Recycling Corporation (A-BRC) is supplying more than 700 red recycling containers in the concourse, Sprint FANZONE and Fan Walk areas. In addition, DIS staff members will be distributing A-BRC blue recycling bags to all campers as they enter through the raceway gates. A Budweiser Recycling Team will reward those campers who “get caught recycling” with Anheuser-Busch branded items, including T-shirts and can coolies.

The recycling program will be in place July 3 through the Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola on July 5, when NASCAR's best battle on the Speedway’s historic 31-degree high banks.

“We’re excited to work with Anheuser-Busch Recycling and Daytona Budweiser Distributing on such a worthwhile environmental project,” said Dick Hahne, vice president of Operations at Daytona International Speedway. “Race fans are extremely loyal and always ready to support efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle. This is a proven initiative that allows our fans to help divert used beverage containers from going to waste.”

“Our employees truly are experts in the recycling field and take great pride in offering innovative recycling solutions and educational programs,” said Trevor Hansen, vice president of Anheuser-Busch Recycling. “While race fans are enjoying all the action at Daytona International Speedway this week and supporting top drivers like Kasey Kahne, we encourage them to take an extra step and use recycling containers and blue recycling bags. It’s good for Daytona International Speedway and good for the environment.”

This year marks an important milestone for the employees of Anheuser-Busch and the recycling industry. The company’s recycling subsidiary, Anheuser-Busch Recycling Corporation, is celebrating its 30th year of operation. Since its inception in 1978, Anheuser-Busch Recycling has kept more than 460 billion aluminum beverage containers out of landfills across the United States. That’s enough cans to circle the globe more than 1,300 times.

Since its founding in the mid 1800s, Anheuser-Busch has sought ways to improve the environment and communities around the country where it has business operations. It began with company founder Adolphus Busch, who recycled leftover grains from the brewing process for use as cattle feed. Today, the brewer’s 12 domestic breweries recycle more than 99 percent of the solid waste from their brewing and packaging processes. Anheuser-Busch Recycling plays a key role in the aluminum beverage can recycling industry. As one of the largest purchasers of used aluminum beverage containers, the company assists in keeping billions of used cans out of local landfills and diverts them to processing facilities to be made back into new aluminum cans.

Anheuser-Busch Recycling works closely with a network of 700 organizations around the country to encourage recycling of used beverage containers. The company implements numerous programs, from its Recycle Challenge initiative, where schools earn money from recycled cans to purchase school equipment, to beverage container collection at large venues and events, including in recent years the Daytona 500, Sturgis Bike Week and LPGA/PGA TOUR tournaments. In addition, the company operates a recycling center in Hayward, Calif., which processes both aluminum cans and plastic bottles.

Based in St. Louis, Anheuser-Busch is the leading American brewer, holding a 48.5 percent share of U.S. beer sales. The company brews the world’s largest-selling beers, Budweiser and Bud Light. Anheuser-Busch also owns a 50 percent share in Grupo Modelo, Mexico’s leading brewer, and a 27 percent share in China brewer Tsingtao, whose namesake beer brand is the country’s best-selling premium beer. Anheuser-Busch ranked No. 1 among beverage companies in FORTUNE Magazine’s Most Admired U.S. and Global Companies lists in 2008. Anheuser-Busch is one of the largest theme park operators in the United States, is a major manufacturer of aluminum cans and one of the world’s largest recyclers of aluminum cans. For more information, visit www.ourpledge.com.

Tickets for the July 5 Coca-Cola 600 are available online at www.racetickets.com or by calling 1-800-PITSHOP.