Bacardi
Martini Asti to Be Made from 100% Sustainable Grapes by End of 2021
The Italian sparkling wine and vermouth brand celebrates its 150th anniversary with a milestone that pushes parent company Bacardi closer to achieving its 2025 goal of sustainably sourcing 100% of its key ingredients. ... View More
Trending: Beverage Giants Ensuring Their Libations Are Sustainable, Down to the Roots
Bombay Sapphire and Starbucks are working with farmers to ensure complete supply chain sustainability for their gin and coffee, respectively. ... View More
That’s the Spirit! Bacardi’s Biodegradable Bottle Latest Boon to Beverage Packaging
Set to arrive in 2023, the bottle — which will biodegrade in 18 months — will replace 80M plastic bottles currently produced by Bacardi across its portfolio of brands every year. ... View More
#BrandsForGood, #Strawless Laying Groundwork for Sustainable Behavior Change
On Wednesday, day three of SB’19 Detroit, the focus was on collective brand efforts to create the significant shifts in consumer behavior necessary for The Good Life to become a reality. ... View More
Trending: Liquor Giants Serve Waste Reduction with a Twist in New Product, Campaign
“In 2016, Bacardi led the drinks industry with the first #NoStraws campaign focusing on eliminating single-use plastic straws from its cocktails,” explained Dune Ives, executive director of Lonely Whale, a non-profit dedicated to positively impac... View More
Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable Releases Toolkit for Sustainability Planning
The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) has launched a new Future Scenarios Toolkit in an effort to provide informed future planning guidance. The toolkit offers companies a clear and robust framework to analyze potential future scenari... View More
Trending: Beverage Makers Turning Production Waste Into Biomass, Carbonation
The Arandas, Mexico-based Tequila Cazadores distillery has become a shining example of Bacardi’s “Good Spirited” corporate responsibility program. The facility is now 100 percent biomass-fueled thanks to a recently-installed biomass boiler, and... View More
Beverage Industry Giants Release True Cost of Water Toolkit
The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) — a technical coalition of leading global beverage companies working to advance environmental sustainability within the beverage sector - has leveraged its expertise to develop a user-friendly t... View More
Dewar's Distillery Powering Itself, 8,000 Homes with Biofuel from Whisky By-Products
The Rothes CoRDe, a John Dewar & Sons distillery part-owned by The Combination of Rothes Distillers, is the latest facility under the Bacardi umbrella to produce energy through a biomass boiler fuelled by Scotch whisky distillery by-products. The... View More
Biomass Boiler Helps Dewar's Distillery Cut CO2 by 90%
The Dewar’s Aberfeldy Distillery in Scotland has cut its carbon footprint by 90 percent after installing a biomass boiler late last year.Traditionally, distilleries are heavy users of fossil fuels, but this is the latest example of investment in bi... View More
Global Beer, Wine, Spirits Producers Launch Online Resource to Promote Responsible Drinking
The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to addressing the global public health issue of harmful drinking, today launched ResponsibleDrinking.org. The consumer-friendly website provides easil... View More
Bacardi, Nonprofit Working Towards 100% Sugarcane Supply Chain Sustainability
Bacardi is working with global nonprofit Bonsucro to foster sustainability in the sugarcane sector as part of its effort to make good on its promise of obtaining 40 percent of the sugarcane-derived products used to make its rums from certified, susta... View More
Biomass Boilers Could Reduce Scottish Bacardi Distiller’s CO2 Footprint by 90%
A Scottish Dewar's distillery owned by Bacardi Limited could reduce its carbon footprint by up to 90 percent by replacing heavy-fuel boilers with biomass boilers fuelled by sustainably sourced wood pellet fuel.The Aberfeldy Distillery raised £1.2 mi... View More
Bacardi Reusing 2,300 Tons of Concrete Rubble to Build New Warehouses
Spirits giant Bacardi Limited announced it has built three new warehouses at its rum distillery in Cataño, Puerto Rico using recycled concrete. The waste was derived from the demolition of six older structures on the 127-acre campus.“We took all t... View More
Bacardi Aspires to 100% Sustainable Sugarcane Sourcing by 2022
Bacardi Limited, the world’s largest privately held spirits company, has pledged to obtain 40 percent of the sugarcane-derived products used to make its rums from certified, sustainable sources by 2017 and 100 percent by 2022 — an industry first ... View More
Bacardi Cuts Water Use in Half, Energy Consumption and GHGs by a Third
Bacardi Limited has achieved a nearly 50 percent drop in water usage and roughly 33 percent reductions in both energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in the last six years, according to its latest corporate responsibility report, released online Wed... View More
