A Welcome from our Chief Executive Officer

I am proud to introduce InBev’s third Global Citizenship Report which shows how we are delivering on our commitment to value creation for all our stakeholders.

This year we’ve looked strategically at our stakeholders’ concerns, identifying the issues they care about, and focusing on topics that really matter to our business. We will continue to build on this approach in future years.

This year’s report shows some progressive improvements in our corporate citizenship performance:

• Our Voyager Plant Optimization scheme is delivering environmental benefits across the board including:
  
  • 97% of InBev’s waste and brewing by-products are recycled, compared with 95% in 2005.
  • Water use per hectoliter is down 3.8% since 2005, and down 8.9% over the last three years.
  • Energy consumption per hectoliter is down by 16.7% since 2005, and down 21.9% over the last three years.
  
  

  As a company in the alcohol beverage industry we are committed to promoting Responsible Drinking, and playing our part in addressing the effects of negative drinking behavior. We vigorously apply our Code of Commercial Communications, and work on shaping industry-wide self-regulatory codes in the markets in which we operate. We also continue to take initiatives at a country and community level, such as a new award winning anti-drink driving campaign in Russia, and the distribution of more than 20 000 breathalyzers to support police enforcement of anti-drink driving laws in Brazil.

  Overall, we’ve generated a value add of approximately 5 billion euro improving our ranking on the UK Government’s Value Added Performance of European Beverage Companies. This year we are now number two in the ranking compared with number five last year, demonstrating the highest increase in the European Beverage Category.

I encourage all our stakeholders to read the report, together with the supporting material online at www.InBev.com.