Registration Document - Pernod Ricard

Environmental management
The Group’s environmental policy
In line with the principles set out in its S ustainable D evelopment
Charter, the Group applies responsible environmental policy in each
country that is home to one of its production facilities. The main
pillars of the policy are:
◆ promoting the responsibility of subsidiaries: each subsidiary is fully
responsible for determining how to reduce its own environmental
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footprint and how to apply the Group’s policy locally. Pernod
Ricard’s Technical Division oversees and coordinates measures at
Group level, notably by performing regular audits and notifying
subsidiaries of best practices;
the four-fold certification policy: in addition to the HACCP
methodology extensively applied across the Group, in 2009 it
decided to add the ISO 22000 standard on food safety to the three
standards already applied, namely ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 14001
(Environmental Management) and OHSAS 18001 (Health and
Safety). As of 30 June 2009, 93% of the volumes produced by the
Group came from ISO 14001 certified sites.
Standard ISO 9001 ISO 14001 OHSAS 18001 ISO 22000
Area Quality Environmental
Management
Health & Safety Food Safety
Number of sites (%) 88 81 70 13
Volume produced (%) 97 93 78 10
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the Group’s Environment Action Plan: it is focused on four fundamental points and aims to achieve specific targets.
Area 2012 targets
Promote sustainable farming (local initiatives depending on environment)
Save water resources (10)% (m3 per litre of finished product)
Reducing energy consumption (10)% (kWh per litre of pure alcohol)
Minimise the impact of waste and effluents 85% Recycled waste
The sections that follow provide further details on the measures
taken in the various areas.
Promoting sustainable farming
Pernod Ricard is a major agricultural partner, as all the Group’s
products are manufactured with farm raw materials. As such, it
promotes sustainable farming, using natural resources responsibly,
respecting the environment, and is concerned about preserving water
and soil quality, biodiversity and human health.
In 2008/2009, direct purchases of agricultural products represented
878,000 tonnes, mostly in the form of grain for distillation
(505,000 tonnes) and grapes (360,000 tonnes).
Including transformed products (alcohol, wines, sugar, aromatic
plants and herbs, etc.), the Group buys about 2.5 million tonnes
of agricultural products, representing the equivalent of around
160,000 hectares of farmland.
Pernod Ricard is committed to promoting sustainable farming, both
in its own agricultural activities and the products it buys.
As such, the Group follows stringent local standards:
◆ in New Zealand, all the vineyards run by Montana are “Sustainable
Wine Growing New Zealand” certified;
◆ in Australia, Orlando Wines has undertaken to provide its major
suppliers with training on the “Freshcare Environmental”
standards and have them certified;
◆ in France, the Martell and Mumm Perrier
-Jouët vineyards are
operated in compliance with the Guidelines on Best Practices
(Guides de Bonnes Pratiques) drawn up by c ognac and c hampagne
associations ;
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◆ in Sweden, the Absolut Company is supplied exclusively with wheat
produced locally, in line with stringent sustainable agriculture
standards.
Saving water resources
A fragile element, specific targets
Water is an essential component in the products manufactured
by Pernod Ricard. It is used at every stage in the lifecycle of the
Group’s products: irrigation of farmlands, cleaning of equipment,
manufacture of grain-based eaux-de-vie, cooling of distillery facilities
and adjustment of the degree of alcohol in whiskies, vodkas, brandies
and rums.
The pressure on this natural resource, unevenly distributed throughout
the world and often under threat by human pollution, heightens every
year. Pernod Ricard has therefore marked water management as one
of its four strategic focuses in its environmental policy: the Group is
targeting a 10% reduction in its water consumption per unit produced
by 2012.
To do so, each subsidiary must:
◆ measure its consumption;
◆ check that the water it uses does not endanger resources;
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take measures to save water;
◆ ensure efficient treatment of waste water prior to release into the
environment.
These measures become even more necessary if the subsidiary is
located in a geographical region where water is scarce. This is the
case, for instance, in Australia and in Mexico.