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AB InBev replaces 18% electricity with solar power at Telangana Crown Brewery
April 19, 2021
To generate an average of 4,000 units per day AB InBev in Telangana has made a shift to solar power, augmenting its adoption of greener electricity across its brewing operations.
The adoption of renewable electricity in its third brewery contributes towards AB InBev’s global commitment to secure 100 per cent of the company’s purchased electricity from renewable sources by 2025.
The world’s leading brewer’s facilities in Mysore and Aurangabad had earlier partially switched to renewable electricity. The project capacity for the solar panel installation at Crown brewery is DC 998 KWP, AC 773 KW, which will generate an average of 4,000 units per day. With an electricity requirement of about 22,000 units per day, AB InBev India will produce 18 per cent of the electricity through renewable sources.
Game-changer? ‘If you combine our new portfolio and historical brands, we can transform the game’ Budweiser Brewing Group’s Jean-David Thumelaire explains Jean-David Thumelaire describes 2020 as a ‘weird year’ to be pushing Corona in the on-trade – for obvious reasons. Now, with what he sees as the ‘real’ reopening in sight, he discusses the art of post-pandemic planning.
You’d be mistaken in thinking that navigating Boris Johnson’s post-lockdown roadmap would be a simple journey for someone who has racked up air miles across 30 different countries during a 10-year stint at AB InBev.
Yet despite approaching the task with an “ambitious attitude”, Budweiser Brewing Group’s new UK on-trade sales director, Jean-David Thumelaire, reveals that his team’s plans are changing “all the time”.
AB InBev invests $159m in UK breweries Budweiser Brewing Group is investing £115m ($159m) in two UK breweries to meet growing demand for off-trade beer sales.
The AB InBev subsidiary saw record sales level in the off-trade last year: with 19.6% growth in Q3 and 23.4% growth in Q4.
The investment will increase capacity by 3.6m hl (the equivalent of 630 million pints) and create 55 jobs in addition to the 1,000+ people already employed across the two sites.
A £72m ($99.5m) investment at the Magor Brewery in South Wales will see capacity increase by 1.6 million hl. A new bottling line was installed in 2020; and will be followed by eight new 8,000 hl fermenting units to increase brewing capacity this year. An improved wort cooler, beneficial for beer quality, which will also lead to significant energy savings of 40 million MJ a year. A total of 32 new jobs will be created in operational and management roles.
Once a month, the drinks industry-funded International Alliance for Responsible Drinking, which covers alcohol policies worldwide, reviews some of the alcohol industry s recent CSR and environmental activities. Here, a little later than planned, is a look at what s been going on in recent weeks.
Once a month, the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking rounds up recent higher-profile CSR and environmental activities from drinks brand owners
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Diageo recently relaunched it s online DrinkIQ resource as part of a responsibility drive, providing consumers with updated information on alcohol. The group paired with a national prevention organisation and a radio personality to launch the campaign, citing the importance of tackling harmful drinking after the country s recent COVID-19 lockdowns.