Beam Suntory’s sustainable endeavours

Beam Suntory, in partnership with Europe’s leading digital road freight forwarder named sennder, has achieved significant carbon emission reductions across the company’s European logistics network.

Over the past year, Beam Suntory has worked with sennder to introduce bio-fuelled trucks across key shipping routes in the Netherlands and Germany as part of Beam Suntory’s commitment to decarbonise its supply chain.

Thanks to the comprehensive fuel use and emissions data that sennder monitors across all loads, Beam Suntory can track and analyse its carbon emissions output from its road transport network. Beam Suntory also plans to establish a roadmap that will expand its network with sennder to scale up its commitment to reducing Scope 3 emissions.

Decarbonising road freight is an essential part of Beam Suntory’s efforts to achieve its carbon emissions reduction targets. Inspired by Suntory Holdings’ Growing for Good vision and driven by Beam Suntory’s ambitious Proof Positive sustainability strategy, the company aims to achieve net-zero GHG emissions across its entire value chain by 2040, and as an initial step, is working to reduce GHG emissions from direct operations by 50 percent, by 2030.

Beam Suntory is also working to reduce its water, climate, forest and field and packaging footprints, while simultaneously focusing on protecting and regenerating ecosystems and preserving biodiversity. As part of this work, the company recently launched a first-of-its-kind regenerative agave programme in Mexico to improve carbon capture, and last year, launched Phase II of its $4 million Peat land Water Sanctuary initiative with RSPB Scotland.