Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks business, releases its 2011 online Sustainability & Responsibility Report.
The 2011 online Sustainability & Responsibility Report highlights progress and aspirations across the company’s key sustainability impacts and our value chain.
This year Diageo changed the name of the report from ‘Corporate Citizenship’ to ‘Sustainability & Responsibility’. This reflects the evolution of their approach. ‘Sustainability’ reflects how Diageo are increasingly taking into account their wider social, environmental and economic impacts throughout the value chain, and how non-financial performance supports the long-term success of the company. ‘Responsibility’ reflects Diageo's particular role as a beverage alcohol company in promoting responsible drinking.
Commenting on the publication of the report, Paul Walsh, CEO, said: ‘Our sustainability performance demonstrates an inherent strength in our business and an enduring model for value creation, and I am sure that our focus on our social and environmental impacts gives us a competitive edge.’
The Diageo 2011 online Sustainability & Responsibility Report includes a report on our progress toward meeting our targets. The report is organised across the company’s six key impacts: alcohol in society, water, broader environmental sustainability, community development, our people, and governance and ethics.
Highlights include:
Alcohol in Society
- Supporting, either directly or indirectly, more than 240 programmes to address alcohol misuse with focus on our top 40 markets (by value).
Water
- Launching Safe Water for Africa an innovative programme in partnership with the Coca-Cola Foundation, WaterHealth International and the International Finance Corporation to expand sustainable access to clean water across the continent with an initial focus on West Africa.
Environment
- Securing new supply arrangements to ensure that 52% of our electricity now comes from low-carbon sources.
- Against a backdrop of increased production, Diageo made progress in all but one of their ambitious environmental targets.
- For the first time Diageo set out their sustainable packaging targets against a 2009 baseline.
Community
- The Arthur Guinness Fund signed a three-year partnership with Ashoka, a leading association of social entrepreneurs, to help deliver a €3 million project.
- Since the launch of Diageo’s Learning for Life skills and capacity building initiative in 2008, 50,999 students have graduated. In 2011, Diageo ran 52 projects in 15 countries.
Our people
- In seven of their key markets, Diageo was rated by the Great Place to Work Institute as one of the top employers
Governance and Ethics
- All employees worldwide completed an online Compliance and Ethics Business Code of Conduct training module.
The 2011 online Sustainability & Responsibility Report can be viewed here. To learn more about Diageo, visit here.
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For more information please email CSR@Diageo.com