At Lion Nathan, we are committed to our value of Acting with Integrity and doing the right thing for the long term health of our business and the communities in which we operate.

Many years ago, and long before environmental sustainability became fashionable, our journey began with initiatives to reduce water and energy consumption and to embed a culture of environmentally responsible production.

This included commencing a process of certification across our operational sites to the ISO 14001 series of international environmental management standards. We take a long term view on our environmental investment programme.

Even as we move from initiatives that result in net cost saving to programmes which may incur a net cost, we recognise that longer term environmental benefits need to be taken into account.

This is reflected in our Environmental Policy, which aims to ensure that we adopt sustainable environmental practices to preserve resources and minimise our impacts in the communities in which we operate. We ensure high standards of environmental performance across all of our business activities and implement internal and external programmes to continually improve our systems. This policy is our public commitment to environmental stewardship.

We have stepped up our investment to manage our environmental footprint and have set goals to measure and track our performance and implement actions to further reduce our environmental impact, and also incorporated environmental criteria into purchasing policies.

A core activity in FY08 was mapping the group’s entire carbon footprint, including all manufacturing and office sites, transport and our supply chain. These efforts enabled us to identify further opportunities to reduce emissions in partnership with our suppliers and customers.

Consistent with our Code for Responsible Marketplace Activity, when we communicate claims about a brand’s environmental credentials to our consumers, or use our brands to celebrate our environmental performance, all claims will be fact and evidence-based in line with principles of openness and accountability.

For more information about our environmental performance, visit our Sustainability Report.

Our environmental objectives set challenging but realistic goals for continual improvement. Our ongoing challenge is to keep lifting the bar and, in doing so, to make our business, community and industry more environmentally sustainable.