	anheuser busch joins bid for san miguel anheuser busch companies inc bud n has joined several other foreign bidders for sequestered shares of the philippines largest food and beverage maker san miguel corp sanm mn the head of a government panel which controls the shares told reuters ramon diaz secretary of the presidential commission on good government pcgg said anheuser busch had told the government it was interested in buying mln b shares of san miguel he did not disclose the offered price diaz said australian brewer alan bond s bond corp holdings ltd had offered pesos per share for the b shares diaz said new york investment bank allen and co inc had earlier said it was interested in buying all mln sequestered shares he told reuters last month elders ixl ltd elxa s the melbourne based brewing company had also bid for the b shares the hong kong economic journal last month quoted a spokesman of australian stock broker jacksons ltd as saying that barwon farmlands ltd an australian firm owned pct by ariadne australia ltd was planning a filipino branch in order to buy the entire block of mln shares anheuser busch last year made a mln dlr bid to buy san miguel brewery ltd a hong kong listed company which is pct owned by neptunia corp ltd a san miguel corp subsidiary the talks broke down last june after the two sides said they could not agree on the terms of the sale reuter 
