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Kilimanjaro
Named after the iconic mountain and
better known in its home market of
Tanzania as ‘Kili’, this crisp, mild, easy
drinking, refreshing natural lager is light
in colour with a slightly bitter taste.
Origin:
Tanzania
First brewed: 1996
www.kilitimetz.com
footprint to be an appropriate indication of the tax
contribution from our operations.
The corporate tax charge for the year was
US$1,069 million, which represents an effective
tax rate of 28.2%. This places us in the upper
quartile of the FTSE 100 as measured by publicly
reported effective tax rates.
The group’s presence in many developing
economies provides major sources of employment
and income and therefore tax revenues. The taxes
we pay are split between developed countries
(22%) and developing countries (78%).
Building strong action plans and partnerships
We have extensive internal programmes which
aim to improve water and energy efficiency, to
educate our employees on alcohol responsibility
and to raise awareness and engagement around
the world on our overall approach under the banner
‘Ten Priorities. One Future.’
Internal action alone, however, is not sufficient.
Many of the sustainable development challenges we
face, from alcohol abuse in communities to water
risks, can only be effectively tackled in partnership
with experts from NGOs, governments and
academic institutions. We believe a collaborative,
multi-stakeholder approach can offer different
insights and knowledge, and that by working
together with a shared purpose we can have a
much greater effect than if we just worked alone.
During the year we have expanded our Tavern
Intervention Programme in South Africa, which
focuses on responsible drinking, gender violence
and HIV/Aids awareness, with support of the
Global Fund on HIV/Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
We have also developed our Water Futures
partnership with WWF and GIZ (part of the German
government’s development agency) to include not
only the partnerships in South Africa, Tanzania,
Peru and Ukraine, but also to collaborate with local
water partnerships with groups such as The Nature
A focused approach to sustainable development management
Global focus areas
Regional focus areas
Continual improvement
Conservancy in Colombia, Honduras, the USA and
with local partners in India.
Our affordability business strategy in Africa, based
on the local sourcing of crops such as sorghum
and cassava as well as barley, continues to grow
and we are pleased to be part of the Government
of Tanzania’s Southern Agricultural Growth
Corridor (SAGOT) project. By including previously
subsistence farmers in our supply chains, such
as our cassava sourcing project in Southern
Sudan with FARM Africa and the Africa Enterprise
Challenge Fund, we are expanding market access
and driving development.
We are members of Global Action on Harmful
Drinking, a worldwide partnership with other major
international beverage alcohol producers to address
harmful drinking through a combination of global
and local actions.
Transparency and ethics
High standards of ethical behaviour and
transparency underpin all that we do. SABMiller
has a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics which
applies to all employees across the group as well
as third parties acting on our behalf. Many of our
local businesses have their own programmes, such
as Bavaria in Colombia which has trained over
14,700 employees, subcontractors and suppliers
on business ethics since 2006.
We place a high value on reporting and
communicating in an open and honest way to our
stakeholders, locally and globally. Twelve of our
businesses produce their own sustainability reports
and many others provide information online.
In March 2011, we published the findings of a two
year project with Oxfam America and Coca-Cola
in Zambia and El Salvador to review the ‘poverty
footprint’ of our soft drinks operations in these two
countries. The study found that in general human
rights and labour standards were well protected and
environmental resources were well managed at our
Alcohol
responsibility
Our vision
To be the most
admired company in
the global beer industry
Water
Enterprise
development in
our value chains
Energy/carbon HIV/Aids CSI
Human rights Waste Transparency and ethics Packaging
Online
For more information on our approach
to sustainable development and
our performance, go to our 2011
Sustainable Development Report
at www.sabmiller.com
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