As a global leader in the beverage industry, Suntory Holdings offers a uniquely diverse portfolio of products from premium spirits, beer, and wine to brewed teas, bottled water, carbonated soft drinks, ready-to-drink coffee, and energy drinks, along with health and wellness products. Suntory is home to award-winning Japanese whiskies Yamazaki, Hibiki, and Hakushu and iconic American spirits Jim Beam and Maker's Mark. Suntory also fascinates the taste buds in Japan and the Asian market with our Premium Malt's beer and owns the exceptional Japanese wine Tomi and the world-famous Château Lagrange. Its brand collection also includes Sauza Tequila, non-alcoholic favorites Orangina, Lucozade, Ribena, BOSS coffee, Iyemon green tea, Suntory Tennensui water, TEA+ Oolong Tea, V and BRAND'S, as well as popular health and wellness product Sesamin EX.
Founded as a family-owned business in 1899 in Osaka, Japan, Suntory Group has grown into a global company operating throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania with annual revenue (excluding excise taxes) of $20.4 billion in 2020. Yatte Minahare drives Suntory - the spirit of bold ambition - and our 40,044 employees worldwide draw upon our unique blend of Japanese artisanship and global tastes to explore new product categories and markets.
Purpose
As a company that delivers blessings of water and nature to our customers, Suntory is committed to its mission to create harmony with people and nature. Always aspiring to grow for good, Suntory is devoted to giving back to society through protecting water resources, nurturing its communities, and fostering the arts.
We believe it is vital to state clearly to the world the set of our beliefs about Inclusive Capitalism. As such, we start with our Statement of Guiding Principles for Inclusive Capitalism. Knowing that words alone are not enough, each of us is making a series of commitments about how we will operate our institutions so that they help achieve Inclusive Capitalism. These commitments are forward-looking statements based on current goals, expectations and assumptions, which are not guarantees of future performance. For more information, please refer to our Terms of Use
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Summary
Suntory has entered into an agreement with the local government in Yamanashi Prefecture to collaborate on developing Japan’s largest 16 MW green hydrogen power system at Suntory Hakushu Distillery and Suntory Minami Alps Hakushu Water Plant by 2025
Activities & Initiatives
The “Yamanashi Model P2G System”*1 that will be installed at Suntory’s Hakushu facilities will produce green hydrogen by electrolyzing water using renewable electricity such as solar power and therefore does not emit any greenhouse gas (GHG) in its production process nor when consumed as a fuel. The green hydrogen produced will not only be used as fuel for heat energy at the company’s Hakushu facilities but are also planned to be utilized in the surrounding communities.
Measures & Targets
Suntory will collaborate with Yamanashi Prefecture on decarbonizing Suntory Hakushu Distillery and Suntory Minami Alps Hakushu Water Plant located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, by installing the country’s largest 16 megawatt-size “Yamanashi Model Power-to-Gas (P2G) System”* at the company’s Hakushu facilities by 2025. This is part of Suntory Group’s work to meet its 2030 target to halve GHG emissions in its direct operations*3 such as by utilizing green hydrogen and renewable electricity to ultimately achieve net zero GHG emissions across its entire value chain by 2050.
Summary
Suntory will reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by procuring UK-grown barley produced using regenerative agriculture practices with the ambition to produce barley with 50% lower GHG emissions within five years.
Activities & Initiatives
The project will start by baselining all crop-related emissions, which will inform an innovative nature-based program of interventions that seek to reduce GHG emissions, enhance soil health and protect water, while maintaining crop performance and grain quality. The quality of the barley grown under the project will be evaluated by Suntory Spirits, Beam Suntory and other group companies, and then will later be examined for its contribution to the group’s global ambition to achieve net zero GHG emissions across the entire value chain by 2050.
Measures & Targets
In collaboration with UK based Malt supplier Muntons Plc (Muntons), sustainable agriculture and supply chain consultancy Future Food Solutions Ltd (FFS), and local barley farmers in the East Anglia region, the project will start production from 2023 with the ambition to produce 50% lower GHG emissions within five years.
Summary
Suntory Group aims to achieve net-zero GHG emissions across its entire value chain by 2050. Our Environmental Targets toward 2030 includes reducing GHG emissions by 50% from our direct operations as well as by 30% across our entire value chain.
Activities & Initiatives
Dedicated to our mission "To Create Harmony with People and Nature," in order to protect the global environment, which to us serves as an important foundation of our business, we are working to reduce GHG emissions at our own sites around the world as well as in the entire value chain outside our bases and promoting environmental management throughout the Group.
Measures & Targets
Environmental Vision toward 2050
-Aim for net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the whole value chain by 2050.
-Continue to promote energy conservation, proactively implement renewable energy solutions, utilize next-generation infrastructure options and work together with stakeholders across the value chain in order to contribute to realizing a decarbonized society.
Environmental Targets toward 2030
-Reduce GHG emissions from our direct operations by 50%*
-Reduce GHG emissions across our entire value chain by 30%*
*Based on emissions in 2019.
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