Molson in the Community

Plus d’une centaine d’employés-es dévoués et engagés de Molson Coors ont participé à une offensive nationale où plus de 350 employés-es se sont investis à planter 1,000 arbres dans notre beau pays qu’est le Canada.

Une opération qui se voulait le coup d’envoi du projet “Red Leaf” de la marque Molson Canadian qui s’est engagée à procéder à la plantation de 100,000 arbres à travers le pays dans la prochaine année. Plusieurs gestes environnementaux seront posés dans le cadre du projet “Red Leaf”, et pour Molson Coors, ceci représente maintes occasions de laisser des empreintes positives dans nos communautés.

Le plaisir était au rendez-vous!

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Bravo à tous-tes pour cette magnifique journée où Dame Nature s’est montrée plus que généreuse! À l’an prochain … entretemps, santé!

Golden Brewery – the world’s largest single site brewery

The first (and maybe annual) Molson Coors Global Water Summit took place in April this year, where our corporate responsibility teams (communications, water resources, brewery operations and supply chain) from across all business units joined together in Golden, Colorado (home of Coors!) to learn, share best practices and develop our short and long term plans for Water Stewardship programs and efficiencies.

A packed three days with topics covering direct operations in our breweries, watershed risk management, collective action and community engagement with our employees and external stakeholders, reporting numbers and targets, and our upcoming Water Stewardship Month in September.

On the last day of the Summit, we were treated to a tour of the local watershed in Golden, Clear Creek Watershed – home of the 1859 Colorado Gold Rush and of course Coors’ water supply!  A 575 square mile watershed that provides water for agriculture, industry, energy and drinking; and is protected by many (including us) through the Clear Creek Water Foundation.

We were also lucky to have some guests join us.  A huge thanks to Pete Coors, Chairman of the Board, Molson Coors for dropping in to kick off the summit with some AWESOME stories of the Coors brewing heritage in Golden.  Pete gets the gold star for the best quote of the summit:  “When I hear it’s snowing in the Rockies I know that really means our brewing water is on its way.”  Thanks to Tod Christenson from BIER (Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable) for an overview of their Water focus plans and for facilitating some sessions for us.

Pete Coors kicking off the first Molson Coors Water Summit

Molson Coors Brewing Company has 350 years of combined brewing heritage in the US, Canada, and the U.K., and although a global brewer, beer is very much a locally brewed product that is tied to the quality of water we use to produce it. This summit truly opened the door for our teams from across the globe to come together and align on what we need to do together to ensure we develop and implement real-world solutions for water use and conversation in our breweries and local watersheds.  A great couple of days and looking forward to implementing the plans made here in Canada.

Team Photo

Up next?  Molson Coors is the presenting sponsor of the second annual Canadian Water Summit on June 14th in Toronto.  Keynote is Chris Hedemann of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Water Disclosure, who will be sharing his insights on water measurement, management, risks and opportunities.  Hope to see you there!

Cheers, Tonia

This Saturday March 26, 2011 at 8:30 p.m. (local time), we will be participating in Earth Hour for our foruth year!

At 8:30 p.m., Molson Coors offices in Canada, the U.S. and the UK will turn off all non-essential lighting for one hour, and our breweries across Canada will shut down external signage and supplementary lights.

We’ll be joining hundreds of millions of people across the world who are switching off lights to pledge their support for the planet. In 2010, a record 128 countries joined the display of climate action, including iconic buildings and landmarks from Asia Pacific to Europe and Africa to the Americas.

We are excited about Earth Hour and hope you are as well. How will you be spending your hour in the dark? Cheers!

Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) released its first Water Disclosure Report on the world’s largest companies today, Molson Coors Brewing Company included.

In partnership with Molson Coors (we’re the lead sponsor of the report), the CDP hopes to shed some light on the issue of water use and other water-related business issues (the report was built from the questionnaire results of 147 respondents).  Working with the CDP is a part of Molson Coors’ long history of commitment to clean water and water sustainability.  We have over 350 years of combined brewery heritage in the US, Canada and the UK that has enabled us to develop and implement real-world solutions for water use and conservation in our breweries and watersheds.

Take a look at some of the survey results:

• Almost 40% of companies are already experiencing detrimental impacts relating to water, including disruptions to operations.
• Just 53% of companies are able to identify whether they are exposed to water risks in their supply chains, as opposed to the high levels of awareness (96%) of water risks in their own operations.
• Companies reporting the greatest exposure to water risks include food, beverage & tobacco and metals & mining.

So why does this matter to Molson Coors? We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again — Water is the most important ingredient in beer, and we think everyone should have access to water as clean and fresh as we use to brew our beers.  The quality of our beer is directly tied to the quality of the water we use to produce it. We’re committed to sharing that expertise and learning from others how to do that even better!

The launch event of CDP Water Disclosure’s first report occurred this morning at Bloomberg’s offices in London.  Greg Wade, our Chief Supply Chain Officer was there speaking on a panel – media release

Love to hear your thoughts on the report.  We recently completed a Water Stewardship Month of Action here at Molson Coors Canada, which resulted in our employees pledging to save 2.6 million litres of water/month…top of mind for us as we take our commitment to water and world class responsibility one step further.

Cheers and happy Friday!

The Molson Coors Toronto Team

Cleaning up at Woodbine Beach, Toronto

It was a busy 24 hours from Friday into Saturday for Molson Coors Canada…in the spirit of ‘proud to play our part’, we got up early on a weekend morning and volunteered to clean the shoreline of Woodbine Beach in Toronto!  It was a fun and productive morning, that saw 220 volunteers collect 380kg of trash.  Several Molson Coors employees came out  as well, accompanied by their friends and family to help make our shorelines a little more beautiful.Following the clean-up, the group headed to the Gull and Firkin for some pints of Canadian and delicious appetizers.

Molson Canadian partnered with WWF and the Vancouver Aquarium as a national sponsor of the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup and participated in these clean-ups across the country, which run from September 18 all the way through to the 26th.  There were also employees who took the initiative to plan their own clean-up event in their communities, and acted as brand ambassadors of Molson Coors wearing t-shirts and sampling some fine Molson Canadian with their friends. With water being such an important part of brewing our beers, we wanted to play our part and keep Canadian water clean and our land beautiful.

A big thank you to Tonia Hammer, who planned and represented Molson Coors at this event.  Cheers!

P.S. – Best find of the clean-up goes to Mike MacDonald for recovering a suitcase…interesting to say the least!

Check out the video of Ian Douglas, one of the key leaders at MCC for water stewardship in Canada, talking about the GCSC (I hope you’re a Journey fan):

Some more cleanup pics from across the country:

The Molson Coors folks in Halifax

Some panda love at Kits Beach, Vancouver.

This September 18-26th, thousands of Canadians will take time out of their busy lives to rehabilitate their local shorelines through the removal of shoreline litter in the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. This year Molson Canadian is excited to play its part as a National Sponsor, partnering with the Vancouver Aquarium and WWF-Canada

In 2009, participants removed litter from 2,457 km of shoreline in Canada, making the GCSC Canada’s largest contributor to the International Coastal Cleanup, a global effort to remove harmful litter and aquatic debris from shorelines.

How it works:

There are two ways to get involved.  You can help cleanup by becoming a participant of an existing cleanup, OR, you can organize a cleanup by becoming a Site Coordinator.  Groups, families, companies, individuals are all welcome!

Why are we involved?  Well, we believe that good business practices include environmental stewardship, and September at Molson Coors Brewing Company is a Month of Action focused on Water.   Water is essential to the brewing process – without great water, we can’t make great beer.  More about Molson Coors Water Stewardship

There are hundreds and hundreds of cleanups organized across the country, so you’ll most likely be able to find one close to you.  Molson Coors employees will be joining the pack to help preserve and restore the beauty that Canada is.  I’ll have more details about our involvement in the coming weeks – hope to see our water (and beer!) loving friends join us

• GCSH on twitter
• GCSH on facebook

Have a great weekend everyone.

Cheers,

Tonia

Playing our Part and keeping Toronto and the Molson Coors grounds clean.

Eighty Molson Coors employees spent an hour outside Friday afternoon to help clean up the areas around our brewery and head office at 33 Carlingview.

Warm weather and sunshine certainly made our 4th year participating in Mayor Miller’s 20 Minute Clean up Challenge even better!   Have to say – there has been less and less garbage to clean up each year = pretty nice to see! Cheers.

Winner…Frank!  – most interesting garbage found

Molson Coors CEO and President Dave Perkins playing his part

Halloween was 6 months ago!

These folks missed the first group pic

A box of bolts?  You never know what you’ll find….