Anheuser-Busch Continues to Supply Water to Victims of Hurricane Katrina;
Company Foundation Donates $1 Million to the American Red Cross for Relief Efforts
Friday September 2, 6:00 am ET
Anheuser-Busch and Its Wholesalers Now Begin Shipping More Than Two Million Cans of Water Per Week to Relief Efforts
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Anheuser-Busch Companies said today it will be increasing its donation of fresh drinking water to nearly 2.5 million cans per week to Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.
Recognizing the unique position the company is in to provide safe drinking water, the company will also be converting operations at its Houston brewery, in addition to its Cartersville, Ga., brewery, to producing canned water.
The company's Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Anheuser-Busch Companies, is also increasing its donation to the Red Cross to $1 million to help ongoing relief efforts along the Gulf Coast communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Anheuser-Busch will also match contributions made by its employees to the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
In addition, the company announced it will match up to an additional $1 million from its independent wholesalers nationwide.
"As the extent of the devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina becomes clearer, our resolve to help becomes stronger. We have the ability to bring something life-saving to the victims: fresh drinking water. Together with our network of wholesalers across the country, we are mobilizing all of our resources to get water to these victims and to relief workers," said Patrick Stokes, president and chief executive officer of Anheuser-Busch Companies.
We've escaped the orbit of Chat and are now cruising in Extended and should be racing soon into oblivion and on the the Chase for the Cup all too soon for me..
Thanks to the FR Mods FoR all they do.. :)
14 on the yellow pool!