Report Scope

In this section …

• About Our Data
• How Anheuser-Busch Collects and Analyzes Data
• Normalized Data

This web-based report provides information on our EHS organization and programs, normalized key performance indicator (KPI) data and performance highlights for calendar year 2006. We consulted the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) 2006 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines to assist us in the presentation and content of our data. See the GRI Index for more details.

A table summarizing our companywide KPI data is available here.

About Our Data

Our KPI data reflect those areas within our operations that have the greatest potential effect on human health and the environment:

• Employee safety and wellness
• Water and energy use
• Waste generation related to packaging and raw materials

The KPI data included in this report represent performance for all facilities within our major production and services businesses over which Anheuser-Busch maintains operational control:

• 12 breweries in the United States
• 1 brewery in Mortlake, United Kingdom
• 1 brewery in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
• 14 U.S. packaging facilities
• 9 U.S. entertainment parks
• 17 U.S. agricultural facilities
• 3 land application sites

We have begun to integrate Harbin, acquired in late 2004, into our data collection and reporting processes. Harbin safety data for 2006 are included in this report. Data reflecting Harbin’s environmental performance will be included in future reports.

This report also provides U.S. Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) data for those U.S. facilities that reported SARA data in 2005:

• 11 breweries
• 1 agricultural facility
• 11 packaging facilities

The Anheuser-Busch EHS Policy and Management System apply to all of our subsidiaries, even though some of the company’s subsidiaries, such as our media and real estate groups, are not part of the KPI data in this report.

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How Anheuser-Busch Collects and Analyzes Data

We thoroughly review KPI data as part of the annual reporting process.

• Facilities gather data and confirm accuracy before sending the information to either the EHS manager at the operating subsidiary or directly to Environmental Affairs and Corporate Safety and Risk Management, as appropriate.
• At the corporate level, Anheuser-Busch verifies each location’s data:
  • comparing them with data submitted in previous years;
  • analyzing the data in the context of overall operations; and
  • following up with the facilities or subsidiaries if questions arise.
• If historical data change due to calculation methodology or inadvertent errors in previous years, those changes are included and explained in subsequent public reporting.
• Data are maintained securely back to at least 1991 and reported for the previous five years.

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Normalized Data

• Net sales, as defined in this report, have been adjusted using 2000 actual net sales as a base.
• For each subsequent year, 2000 net sales are adjusted to account solely for changes in annual production volumes.
• In previous EHS reports, data were reported using 1990 as a base year. Beginning with this 2006 EHS report, data are calculated using 2000 as a new base for net sales adjustments since our business has changed sufficiently over that time. Although reported performance indicator results will be slightly different from previous EHS reports, data trends will remain consistent. This change will allow for more accurate comparability going forward.

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