FULL TEXT: A-B’s Release on Tilt and Bud Extra and State Settlement Agreement

Statement attributable toFrancine I. KatzVice President, Communications and Consumer AffairsAnheuser-Busch, Inc.St. Louis, MissouriWorking in cooperation with Attorneys General (AGs) in 11 states, we are reformulating Bud Extra and Tilt to remove the caffeine and guarana from these products.The settlement agreement between Anheuser-Busch and 11 states attorneys general contains no findings that Anheuser-Busch engaged in unlawful behavior or advertised to youth, and it points to no documents stating that we did so. Rather, the settlement agreement notes the content of the