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Sustainability review 2010
Sustainable supply chain
As a leading European soft drink and fruit juice manufacturer, we are committed to producing and supplying high
quality products in a sustainable manner, while steadily increasing the value of our business for our stakeholders.
We look for long-term relationships with our customers, suppliers and other parties and work actively with them
toward creating a sustainable supply chain. We acknowledge our responsibility towards the environment and run
projects and initiatives in our Business units to raise environmental awareness and minimize our environmental
impact.
Refresco aims at robust long­term relationships with its
strategic suppliers based on respect, trust, mutual benefit and
joint product development. Our customers expect Refresco to
maintain high quality standards and to be cost competitive at
the same time and we expect the same from our suppliers.
Refresco and its strategic suppliers have seen substantial
growth in recent years, which is expected to continue in the
coming years.
In the light of the theme for this years’ annual report, “a sustainable
supply chain”, we interviewed a few of our suppliers
about their relationship with Refresco and how they handle
their specific position in the sustainable supply chain. In order
to assure a long term business relations with Refresco,
suppliers will have to be cost competitive and continuously
be working on improvements. We also asked them about
what they do to reduce their impact on the environment and
about their commitment to sustainability.
To paint a broad picture of the true international soft drink
industry landscape, from raw materials to packaging to
transport, we interviewed CEOs from various companies
along our supply chain: Citrosuco (a major supplier of
orange juice), SIG Combibloc (carton packaging supplier),
Plastipak (PET preform supplier) and Nabuurs (logistics).