Environmental Stewardship Case Study:
UK ‘Beer Miles’ moved to Rail (Energy)
As part of our commitment to be recognized for World Class Corporate Responsibility, Molson Coors (UK) is working with our key partners and customers to cut down on our road ‘beer miles’. Since 2008, we’ve taken almost 500,000 miles (600,000kg of CO2) off the road.
Part of this success has been through an innovative partnership with Asdo, one of our larger UK customers. We transport our products to their stores via their rail distribution partners; Malcolm. Our stock is now collected by Asda vehicles and transferred from our Burton brewery a short distance (about 50 miles) to the Daventry rail terminal. Roughly 20-25 rail containers of Asda stock – including our Molson Coors products – are transported each night. The service currently runs from Daventry to Grangemouth in Scotland, almost 300 miles. In 2009, this took 35,000 of our beer miles (44,000kg of CO2) off the road.
The initiative is a very successful way of working with a major customer to realize mutual benefits in terms of Corporate Responsibility. It also brings valuable relationship benefits, which can only help us grow alongside such a high-profile customer.
Mick Foulkes, Service Delivery & Development Manager