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                                                                 EXHIBIT 10.10

                     RESOLUTIONS AMENDING ANHEUSER-BUSCH
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                     EXECUTIVE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
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      WHEREAS, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. (the "Company")
      maintains a certain plan of deferred compensation for a select
      group of management and highly compensated employees of the
      Company and subsidiaries which have adopted the plan, known as
      the Anheuser-Busch Executive Deferred Compensation Plan (Amended
      and Restated as of January 1, 2001) (the "Plan"); and

      WHEREAS, Article IX (a) of the Plan provides that amendments
      that provide for substantial increases in benefits shall require
      approval by this Committee; and

      WHEREAS, This Committee deems it necessary and desirable to amend
      the Plan in a manner that may increase the benefits available
      under the Plan.

      NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT

      RESOLVED, That this Committee hereby authorizes amendment of the
      Plan as follows:

1.    By deleting Section II in its entirety and substituting the
      following therefor:

      II.   ELIGIBILITY
            An Employee shall be an Eligible Employee for a Year if:

            (a)   the Employee is an Officer on the confidential payroll
                  of a Participating Employer as of January 1 of the
                  Year, or

            (b)   if the Employee's market rate of annual compensation
                  determined for other purposes as of January 1 of the
                  Year equals or exceeds $200,000, as adjusted for each
                  Year after 2002 in accordance with the Company's
                  budgeted internal merit increase factor for that Year.

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2.    By deleting the term "$250,000 as Adjusted" each place it appears
      in the Plan and substituting the term "$200,000" therefor.

      RESOLVED, That these changes shall become effective January 1,
      2002.

      RESOLVED, That the Chief Financial Officer of the Company may
      authorize such other changes in the Plan in connection with the
      amendments approved herein as he deems appropriate in his sole
      discretion, as provided for in Article IX of the Plan.