The Ben E. Keith Company is an American distributor of food and beverage products founded in 1906.
The Food Division supplies a full line of produce, frozen foods, meats, dry groceries, refrigerated foods, paper goods, equipment and supplies to restaurants, hospitals, schools, nursing homes and other institutional businesses.
The Beverage Division sells Budweiser, Bud Light, Bud Ice, Michelob Ultra, Busch, Natural Light, and other Anheuser-Busch products.
Other beverage products include energy drinks, craft and import beer brands, spirits, and wine.
[1] Following a large donation to Texas Tech University, a newly discovered species of bat was named after the company's founder, Ben E. Keith—Benkeith's short-tailed bat (Carollia benkeithi).