• Environment
  • Health & Safety
  • Labour & Human Rights
  • Consumer Issues
  • Business Ethics
  • Community Engagement
  • Responsible Supplier Management
  • Responsible Drinking
These CSR areas have been selected through an internal stakeholder engagement process that involved our Group companies and reflect our commitment to the principles of the United Nations Global Compact. To see how we have advanced in integrating these principles in our business, please read our United Nations Global Compact Communication on Progress. In addition, on an on-going basis we include external input in our approach to CSR; from our consumer and customers and through our global and local memberships and partnerships. We also work with specialists such as Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) and maintain a dialogue with rating agencies using their input to improve our understanding and response to issues affecting our business.

Scope of our performance data 

In 2009, we implemented a new CSR reporting and management system to help us collect data from the local sites and gather these on an overall group level. We have made a good start towards a better understanding of our social and environmental impact as a group. However, we also recognise that there is still a challenge ahead in obtaining a complete and fully aligned overview of all our CSR data both at indicator level and regarding our procedures on gathering data. Our reporting system is developed by Enablon, an international provider of CSR software solutions.

  • The performance data of Carlsberg Group's CSR reporting is based on relevant and significant social, economic and environmental issues during the financial year starting on January 1st 2009, ending December 31st 2009.

  • Our reporting criteria and indicator are based on the GRI G3 guidelines. We have done so to promote more transparency and comparability within our CSR performance data. 2009 is the first year that we publish a GRI data overview, which enables easy access to the performance data for our stakeholders.

  • We have appointed KPMG Sustainability to provide independent assurance on a selected number of environmental indicators. In the various web sections, it is indicated which data have been assured by KPMG Sustainability. For further details see KPMG Assurance Report.

  • Entities included in the performance data includes majority-owned subsidiaries, defined as companies which Carlsberg Breweries A/S directly or indirectly owns, or controls more than 50% of the voting rights in or which it, in some other form, controls*. As this is the first year of group-wide reporting integration, some of our majority-owned companies have not been able to report all social performance indicators. We are working towards full data alignment in 2010.

  • If a majority-owned entity is acquired during the financial year, the entity will be included in the reporting of the following year.

  • Within the Environmental data, any reference to 'production site' or 'site' refers to sites where we produce beer, soft drinks or malt as well as combinations of these and the consumptions from these sites. The term 'production site' does not include off-site consumptions such as logistics and off-site administration.

* Baku Castel in Azerbaijan is not included in the 2009 performance data, due to lacking maturity of system integration, even though the company was acquired in August 2008. The company will be included from the financial year 2010. Feldschlösschen Braunsweig was sold on August 1st 2009, but has not been included in the reporting for the first seven months due to the lack of shared reporting systems and procedures. 

** Arendal in Norway is included for the period from 010109 – 300609. 80% of Arendal was sold as of 010709, after which the site is treated as a joint venture why the second half of the year from 010709 – 311209 is not included in the reporting from 2009. Pori Brewery in Finland was closed in September 2009, why the data is limited to the period between 010109-310809.

*** Since the 2008 environmental reporting some companies have been sold, some have been closed and two sites have been merged into one. Further some companies have been excluded due to their status as joint ventures.

  • Closed: Feldschlossen Yverdons, Carlsberg København (Jacobsen Brewery still produces beer at the site),
  • Sold: Turk Tuborg
  • Merged: Tuborg Fredericia and Coca Cola Fredericia has become Carlsberg Fredericia
  • Excluded due to joint venture status: Lao Brewery Pakse, Lao Brewery Vientiane, Phubai Brewery, Hue Brewery and Cambrew Ltd.