Energy

Energy is important to us. We need to brew and package our brands and to heat, cool and light our offices around the world. Energy comes at a cost. Saving energy reduces our costs and increases our profitability. But energy is also a global challenge for society, both in terms of short-and long-term availability and in terms of its contribution to global warming caused by the emission of greenhouse gasses. We realise that as a company that uses energy throughout its value chain, we have a responsibility to ensure that we do not waste this scarce resource.

The data in this section relate to breweries and soft drink plants over which Heineken has technical control. The data though, exclude our facilities in Bad Brambach, Chemnitz, Karlsruhe, Rosenheim, Würzburg (Brau Holding International, Germany) and our soft drink plant in Gastein (Austria, in 2007), that did not submit a report. Collectively, these facilities represent less than 1 per cent of the total group volume. Data from our malting units can be found in Appendix 3.