The People that enable us

People are at the heart of our business and represent our only long-term competitive advantage. Every year, we look to strengthen our people capabilities, attract and grow talent, and deploy the right people, incentivised through our-target-setting and reward systems, to deliver the right results for the business.

Key topics

Key actions in 2007 include:

• Enhanced clarity around InBev’s corporate culture.
• Strengthening performance evaluation.
• Extending employee engagement.
• Career planning and talent management.
• Promotions from within.
• Expanding the pool of future talent.
• 2007 Executive Board of Management (PDF file : 740 KB).

Highlights

Highlights in this section of the report include:

• Creation of our ‘Dream, People, Culture Principles’.
• Evolution of our behavioral competencies, extension of our 360-degree feedback tool, and continued implementation of bi-annual individual evaluations.
• Expansion of our global engagement survey to cover all the countries we operate in.
• Development of the ‘PACE’ framework to ensure that talented individuals are able to maximize their career development potential.
• Promotion of more than 15% of our management-level employees, with promotions across all Zones exceeding 4,000 people.
• Recruitment of 123 new graduates in 17 countries across our six Zones through our Global Management Trainee Program.