Grey Eagle Soars Into 40th Year Of Dedicated Service

Grey Eagle is celebrating its 40th anniversary during 2003 by continuing its tradition of selling and delivering Anheuser-Busch’s finest beers and providing top-rated service to 1,600 retail customers in St. Louis County.
Grey Eagle Distributors, Inc., was founded May 1, 1963 and first operated out of a small office on Olive Street Road and a temporary warehouse on Gratiot north and east of the Grand and Chouteau viaduct.

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Where The Name Came From

Where did the name Grey Eagle come from?
When Anheuser-Busch decided to discontinue its St. Louis area sales office, it granted a distributorship in St. Louis County and in the City of St. Louis.
Tom Burrows, Vice-President

and National Sales Manager at Anheuser-Busch, and Robert McNamara, Budweiser account executive at the D’Arcy, MacManus and Masius advertising agency, received the St. Louis County distributorship.
Mr. Burrows’ nickname at Anheuser-Busch was the “Grey Eagle” because of his prematurely grey hair. As opening day approached, August A. Busch Jr. (the “Big Eagle”) asked Mr. Burrows what he would name the new company.
When Mr. Burrows said a name had not yet been picked, Mr. Busch said, “Then it will be Grey Eagle.” Mr. Burrows responded “So be it!” and the company had its name.

Grey Eagle President and Chairman Jerry G. Clinton is featured on Charter Cable’s “Visionaires” program in May and June.
Hosted by Dave Simon and produced by Jacqui Poor, “Visionaires” profiles St. Louis business and civic leaders and discusses their contributions to

the community.
The program is scheduled to be telecast each day at 6 p.m. on Charter’s CCIN channel 3 during the first two weeks of May and June.