Coca-Cola Enterprises releases 3rd CRS Report
1st August 2008
Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE:CCE), the world’s largest marketer, distributor, and producer of Coca-Cola products, has published its third company-wide Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) Report, Shape Tomorrow…Today. Comments and feedback related to the 2007 Report are welcome at crs@cokecce.com.
The Report follows the G3 guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and announces the company’s first-ever goals and commitments in its five strategic CRS focus areas. The Report is a comprehensive look at Coca-Cola Enterprises’ business in the communities in which it operates.
CCE has established a goal and targets for each of its five strategic CRS focus areas, including:
- Water Stewardship: Establish a water sustainable operation in which they use one liter of water for every liter of product produced - what the company calls ‘water neutrality’.
- Sustainable Packaging/Recycling: Maximize use of renewable, reusable, and recyclable resources, ultimately recycling the equivalent of 100 percent of its packaging.
- Energy Conservation/Climate Change: Reduce carbon emissions in its manufacturing, fleet, sales and marketing equipment, and facilities.
- Product Portfolio/Well-Being: Offer every consumer the right product and package in the right place, at the right moment, in the right way.
- Diverse and Inclusive Culture: Establish a diverse, winning, and inclusive culture.
Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. is the world’s largest marketer, producer, and distributor of bottle and can liquid nonalcoholic refreshment. Coca-Cola Enterprises sells approximately 80 percent of The Coca-Cola Company’s bottle and can volume in North America and is the sole licensed bottler for products of The Coca-Cola Company in Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco, and the Netherlands.
