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 14 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 150 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 38.1 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 30 pct by <Ariadne Australia Ltd>, was planning a Filipino branch in order to buy the entire block of 38.1 mln shares. Anheuser-Busch last year made a 150 mln dlr bid to buy <San Miguel Brewery Ltd>, a Hong Kong listed company which is 69.65 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.