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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TAYLOR NOMINATED TO ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES BOARD

     St. Louis, Mo., March 14, 1995 - Andrew C. Taylor, chief
executive officer of Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company, has been
nominated to the board of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.

     "Mr. Taylor's broad business knowledge, coupled with his
familiarity with consumer marketing, will be extremely valuable
assets to our board," August A. Busch III, chairman of the board
and president of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., said.  "We are
very pleased that he has agreed to be nominated."

     Mr. Taylor, 47, joined Enterprise Rent-A-Car in 1973,
filling positions of increasing importance until being named
president and chief operating officer in 1980.  He was appointed
to his current position in 1991.  With more than 1,800 offices
and 18,000 employees, Enterprise operates one of the largest
fleets of rental vehicles in the United States.

     Mr. Taylor was awarded a bachelor's degree in Business
Administration from the University of Denver in 1970.  He then
was hired as an administrative assistant with RLM Leasing in San
Francisco, an affiliate of the Ford Motor Co., prior to joining
Enterprise.
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     Mr. Taylor currently serves as a director of Commerce
Bancshares and of General American Life Insurance Co., as a
trustee of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Washington
University, and as vice chairman of the United Way Campaign of
St. Louis.  He is a former trustee of the St. Louis Science
Center and of the John Burroughs School, and former trustee and
treasurer of KETC Channel Nine, St. Louis' public television
station.

     Mr. Taylor's nomination will be voted on at the annual
meeting of shareholders of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., on
April 26 in Williamsburg, Virginia.  He has been nominated to
fill the seat currently occupied by Richard T. Baker, 77, former
chairman of Ernst & Ernst (now Ernst & Young), who is retiring
from the board.
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