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The Coca-Cola Company sustainability commitments
The Coca-Cola Company collaborates with its bottling
partners and local communities in support of its mission to
foster sustainable communities.
According to its 2009/10 Sustainability Review,
The Coca-Cola Company sets global goals and
requirements in a number of areas, including water
stewardship, sustainable packaging, marketing to children
and workplace rights, and it works with bottlers to implement
these standards.
SABMiIIer is an international brewer and one of the
world’s largest bottlers of Coca-Cola products. For
the purposes of this study, the Coca-Cola/SABMiller
value chain refers to The Coca-Cola Company and
SABMiller’s bottling operations in Zambia and El
Salvador. This report covers SABMiller’s business
with The Coca-Cola Company only.
SABMiller sustainability commitments
This includes assurance processes in place to ensure
that the required standards are being upheld in bottling
plants and the bottlers’ suppliers’ facilities. Many of The
Coca-Cola Company’s bottling partners also have their
own sustainability goals and requirements, which are
implemented at the bottling plant level.
The Coca-Cola Company and SABMiller recognize
that responsible behavior has a positive impact on
profitability and economic growth. Both
companies aim to secure economic benefits
for the local communities where they operate,
and also for their respective shareholders who
benefit from a sustainable business and a return
on their investment.
SABMiller believes that a robust approach to sustainable development underpins both its ability to grow and its license to operate.
To achieve competitive advantage – and ultimately better profitability – sustainable development needs to be part of what a company
does every day. It needs to be integrated into decision-making and the way the business is run. SABMiller guides the management
of its business in line with four strategic priorities. One of these is’ to constantly raise the profitability of local businesses, sustainably’.
This strategic focus is underpinned by 10 Sustainable Development Priorities which define the material issues for the business and
have been developed through extensive consultation internally, and also with external stakeholders :
Discouraging irresponsible drinking
Making more beer but using less water
Reducing our energy and carbon footprint
Packaging, reuse and recycling
Working toward zero-waste operations
Encouraging enterprise development in our value chains
Benefiting communities
Contributing to the reduction of HIV/AIDS
Respecting human rights
Transparency and ethics in reporting our progress
Each SABMiller operating business, including the operations in Zambia and El Salvador, reports their progress against these 10
Priorities transparently online through the Sustainability Assessment Matrix (SAM). To see the current scores for each of these
businesses, including the challenges they face and their case studies of success, please visit www.sabmiller.com/sam
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