About this report
We believe that dialogue
and focus are the two key
elements to improving
sustainability performance.
In our last Sustainability Report we stated our
intention to produce a full sustainability report
every year. This is the first report to be produced
as part of our new yearly reporting cycle. In order
to provide more comprehensive information on
the content and progress of our sustainability
agenda we have made a number of choices.
consumption and waste-water discharge, raw
material quality and availability, safety of our
employees and of our installations, supply chain
responsibility, responsible beer consumption, and
our impact on developing markets. We present
information related to these areas in seven
corresponding sections.
Sean O'Neill
Group Corporate Relations Director
First and foremost, we have chosen to improve
the co-ordination between our online and printed
publications. Consequently, a lot of information
that remains consistent from year to year (such as
policy documents, information on management
systems and governance) is no longer published
in the printed report, but is disclosed in the
responsibility section of our international website
(www.heinekeninternational.com/responsibility).
In this section of the website, you will also find the
Sustainability Data Sheet 2006: an instrument we
introduced last year as a full reference document
to the Reporting Guidelines from Global Reporting
Initiative (GRI) and that we have now made
interactive. The Sustainability Data Sheet contains
information about our international sustainability
performance that is outside the scope of this
report. In redesigning our online and printed
information streams, we aim to make information
even more accessible and dynamic.
This report has been compiled using information
sourced through our environmental, safety and
social data systems. The scope of the information
presented and any relevant remarks about the
reliability of data are included in the introduction
to every section.
In this publication we report on the priorities
of our sustainability agenda. We focus on seven
areas in which we have a significant impact and
that are therefore material to our business and
the communities in which we operate: energy
consumption and C02 emission, water
The information in this report complements the
(financial and governance) information in our
Annual Report and that provided on our Company
website (www.heinekeninternational.com).
Dialogue
We believe that dialogue is the basis on which
we will improve our sustainability performance.
This report provides an overview of our recent
achievements and future plans; we also intend
to use it as the starting point for further dialogue
with our stakeholders. So, if you have any
comments or suggestions about its content,
or our wider sustainability agenda, please
contact us.
Email: responsibility@hein.eken.com
or write to:
Heineken International B.V.
Group Corporate Relations
P.O. Box 28
1000 AA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
We have asked our external assurance provider,
KPMG Sustainability, to give assurance on all
the information presented in this report. Their
report can be found in Appendix 1.
Heineken N.V.
Sustainability Report 2006 v/3
