Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE: CCE), the world’s largest marketer, distributor and producer of Coca-Cola products, has published its fifth company-wide Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) report, Clear on Our Commitments: Our Journey to 2020. This report details progress to “Commitment 2020,” a set of goals in five strategic CRS focus areas that it has committed to achieving by the year 2020.
CCE’s CRS report provides a comprehensive look at the company’s commitment to being a sustainable business partner in the communities in which it operates. To access CCE’s report online, please visit http://crs.cokecce.com/publications. Comments and feedback related to the report are welcome at [email protected].
Some of CCE’s key achievements in its five focus areas are:
Energy Conservation/Climate Change: Co-signed the Copenhagen Communiqué to support a global agreement on climate change and reduced company carbon footprint for the second consecutive year
Water Stewardship: Achieved an average water use ratio of 1.67 liters of water to make one liter of product, an improvement of more than 3.5 percent from 2008, making CCE one of the most efficient users of water in the Coca-Cola system
Sustainable Packaging/Recycling: Introduced PlantBottle, a fully recyclable PET bottle made from a blend of petroleum-based materials and up to 30 percent of plant-based materials and achieved facility recycling rates of more than 92 percent in North America and more than 99 percent in Europe
Product Portfolio/Balanced and Active Lifestyle: Reduced beverage calories in U.S. schools by 88 percent since 2006 through the school beverage guidelines and supported First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign by leading the beverage industry’s labeling initiative, Clear on Calories
Diverse and Inclusive Culture: Achieved significantly improved levels of employee engagement in our first global Employee Engagement Survey and received a 100 percent score on the Corporate Equality Index of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for our support of GLBT issues for the second consecutive year
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The report details progress to 'Commitment 2020', a set of goals in five strategic areas