Our suppliers play a critical role in our ability to deliver great times.

We are proud to do business with more than 4000 suppliers of goods and services, ranging from large multinational organisations to specialised local providers. Most of our suppliers are based in Australia and New Zealand, and our total spend with them exceeds $730 million per annum.

The goods and services these suppliers provide range from brewing and wine raw materials, packaging components, warehousing and distribution services and utilities through to marketing, media and promotional materials. They also include many day to day elements such as telecommunications, office supplies, contractors, fleet management, consultants, security and capital equipment.

Our procurement and strategic sourcing activity is focused on achieving solutions that represent ‘best value’, and we continually work with our strategic suppliers to:

• improve quality, service and supply chain productivity
• develop new packaging options, materials and equipment to support the innovation initiatives within the company
• improve and streamline business interfaces

How we interface with our major suppliers is becoming increasingly important and we continually look to create better ways of working with them. Recently, for example, we moved to a web based interfacing solution for our major suppliers of raw materails as we've found it improves the flow of communication between our operating sites and suppliers.

We also recognise the impacts our business activities have on the environment and continually work with our suppliers in a number of areas to make improvements. In particular, we continue to support both the New Zealand Packaging Accord and the Australian Packaging Covenant and with our suppliers work towards better industry packaging management solutions.