FORM OF UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT [Date]Underwriting Agreement • March 28th, 2003 • Anheuser Busch Companies Inc • Malt beverages • New York
ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES, INC. (the “Company”) proposes to issue and sell from time to time certain of its debt securities referred to below (the “Securities”) registered under the registration statement referred to below. The Securities will be issued under an Indenture (the “Indenture”), dated as of , between the Company and , as Trustee, and will have varying designations, interest rates and times of payment of any interest, maturities, redemption provisions and other terms, with all such terms for any particular series of the Securities being determined at the time of the sale. Particular series of the Securities may be sold to you, and to other firms on whose behalf you may act, for resale in accordance with the terms of offering determined at the time of sale. The Securities involved in any such offering are hereinafter referred to as the “Purchased Securities”, and the firms which agree to purchase the same are hereinafter referred to as the “Underwriters” of such Purchased Secu
