Harding brews success at Anheuser-Busch.Michael S. Harding will be brewing brewing: see beer. a new formula for revenue and market share growth at Anheuser-Busch. With his recent appointment as president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the Anheuser-Busch packaging Group, the beverage maker's $2.4 billion subsidiary, Harding becomes the company's highest ranking African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. executive. He will oversee five business units, 15 facilities, and more than 2,300 employees throughout the country. Harding was previously vice president of operations at Anheuser-Busch Inc. The Packaging Group, a mammoth mammoth, name for several large prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus, which ranged over Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene epoch. division, comprises five business units: Metal Container Corp., a can and lid manufacturing operation; Anheuser-Busch Recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. Corp., the nation's largest aluminum recycler; Eagle Packaging Inc., a bottle cap producer; Longhorn The code name for the Windows Vista operating system. After the client version was renamed "Vista" in 2005, Longhorn referred to the server version until it was officially named Windows Server 2008 in May of 2007. See Windows Vista. Glass Corp., a bottle maker; and Precision Printing and Packaging Inc., a label manufacturer. Harding's division is vital to Anheuser-Busch's profitability since it provides significant operating efficiencies, cost savings, and quality assurance to the corporation. Part of Harding's strategic focus will be to develop initiatives that will keep Anheuser-Busch the industry leader in innovative package design. "We provide novel and stylish packaging that speaks to consumer interests, such as sports; focuses on a particular theme, such as holidays; or reflects their popular self-image," he says. "Right now I think we may have the best container combination in the country. I want to make sure we are relevant as packaging technologies and consumers' tastes change." |
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