Environment

The way we brew our beer is important to us. Our beers are based on selected natural ingredients, we use pure water and energy in the brewing process, and we package and distribute our products for the enjoyment of consumers around the world.

We work hard to minimize our impacts and give something back. This makes good economic sense, enabling us to generate efficiencies and manage costs (which is an important part of our culture), whilst also helping to preserve natural resources.

Key Topics

In our 2007 Global Citizenship Report we set out our environmental management and performance related to the following key topics:

• Water Use
• Energy Use & Climate Change
• Byproducts and Waste
• Packaging

Highlights

Highlights in this section of the report include:

• In 2006, 97% of our total waste and byproducts are reused or recycled.
• Energy Use & Climate Change
• Water use per hectoliter has fallen by 3.8% since 2005, and is down 8.9% over the last three years.
• Since 2005, we have reduced the amount of energy required to produce a hectoliter of product by 16.7%, with reductions of 21.9% over the last three years.