It takes time – in some cases, many years – for Bacardi rum to mellow and come of age. It’s the length of time the rum spends in American white oak barrels that determines the spirit’s richness, aroma and smoothness. When the rum is ready, and it’s time to retire the barrels – usually after approximately […]
Bacardi Limited announced that it has pioneered a new auditing method that accurately measures performance and progress against key environmental sustainability objectives. Called BEST – Bacardi Environmental Sustainability Tracking – the new system represents an innovative best practice in assessing a variety of metrics typically included in sustainability initiatives. Bacardi Limited, the world’s largest privately […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSKTi3dtpzw Everywhere Bacardi Limited does business, sustainability is something that’s not just encouraged – it’s expected. On the 152nd anniversary of its founding, family-owned Bacardi rolls out an ambitious sustainability campaign globally. Good Spirited: Building a Sustainable Future launches across the more than 150 markets where Bacardi sells its brands, including more than 75 offices […]
The Wrigley Company Foundation announced the addition of ten new countries to its international Litter Less education campaign led by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE). This addition brings the number of participating countries to 35 globally and kicks off the third year of a three-year, $3.1 million campaign. The Litter Less campaign aims to […]
A growing number of companies and organisations are supporting the Save Food Initiative dedicated to the fight against global food loss and waste. Nestlé, the world’s biggest food company, has now joined. This means that a hundred industrial companies, associations and media are now working together with Save Food – a broad-based alliance that covers large […]
Nestlé is systematically introducing more environmentally efficient ice cream freezers using natural refrigerants across Europe. The company has pledged that from now on all new commercial horizontal ice cream chest freezers bought by Nestlé across Europe will use only natural refrigerants. These are naturally occurring substances – like carbon dioxide, ammonia, water or air and […]
LYFE Kitchen, recently called “the future of food,” a transformational, socially responsible “lyfestyle” brand, opened the doors to its first-ever franchise location at the corner of Clark and Hubbard in Chicago’s River North section. CEO Mike Roberts, along with the first LYFE Kitchen Owner Operator Carey Cooper, his LYFE Kitchen Chicago Team, local dignitaries, LYFE […]
The Coca-Cola Company and Ford Motor Company are fueling more sustainable design by collaborating on a first-ever interior fabric made from the same renewable material used to produce Coca-Cola’s PlantBottle Technology packaging. The two companies today unveiled a Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid vehicle with Coca-Cola PlantBottle Technology interior fabric surfaces covering seat cushions, seat […]
Wine industry leader in innovation Truett-Hurst wine company of Healdsburg, California, says no to marketing green-washing. The release of the first paper wine bottle in the U.S. from Truett-Hurst is the real thing. The paper wine bottle, branded PaperBoy, is a molded outer shell in the shape of a wine bottle, made from recycled cardboard […]
Tesco is cutting the buy-one-get-one-free (bogof) promotions on its bagged salads after finding that 68% of them end up being wasted by consumers. The supermarket said the move is a first in response to its own research into food waste, which tracked 25 of its bestselling products to better understand where food waste occurs from […]