PRESS RELEASE
Race Fans on Fast Track to Recycling
Anheuser-Busch Recycling, Lowe's Motor Speedway Team Up To Benefit Speedway Children's Charities Lowe's Motor Speedway, Press Release
CONCORD, N.C. (May 7, 2008) - Race fans will have an opportunity to
support the environment, their favorite drivers, as well as Speedway
Children's Charities for two weekends of racing at the historic Lowe's Motor
Speedway this month.
Partnering with Lowe's Motor Speedway and Bealer Distributing, the
local Anheuser-Busch wholesaler, Anheuser-Busch Recycling Corporation
(A-BRC) is supplying more than 225 recycling containers in the concourse and
select suite areas. In addition, campers at Fleetwood and Country Crock
campgrounds will receive A-BRC blue recycling bags as they enter those
facilities and will be encouraged to leave their recyclables at their camp
sites for pickup. 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 for both race weekends during
May at the 1.5-mile superspeedway, beginning May 16 and 17 for the NASCAR
Sprint All-Star Race, then returning from May 22-25 for the Coca-Cola 600.
"We're excited to work with Anheuser-Busch Recycling and Bealer
Distributing on such a worthwhile environmental project," said Lauri Wilks,
executive vice president of Lowe's Motor 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."
All proceeds from the Anheuser-Busch recycling program will be given
to Speedway Children's Charities, which provides funding for hundreds of
non-profit organizations throughout the nation that meet the direct needs of
children.
Thanks to the generosity of many supporters, the SCC Charlotte
chapter distributed in excess of $700,000 to 64 local charities at its
annual grant ceremony in December 2007.
"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 Lowe's Motor Speedway this
month and supporting top drivers like Kasey Kahne, we encourage them to take
an extra step and use the recycling containers and bags. It's good for
Lowe's Motor Speedway, good for Speedway Children's Charities 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 430 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 May 17 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race and May 25
Coca-Cola 600 can be purchased online at www.lowesmotorspeedway.com or by
calling the track ticket office at 1-800-455-FANS.
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