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Partner Profile
| Coors Brewing Company | |
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| Location | Golden, CO |
| Goal | Coors Brewing Company pledges to reduce U.S. GHG emissions by 12 percent per production index from 2005 to 2010. |
| Company Description Coors Brewing Company produces premium quality malt beverages as a subsidiary of Molson Coors Brewing Company, one of the world's largest brewers. Coors is the 3rd largest brewer in the United States, with brands such as Coors Light, Blue Moon, Keystone, Killians, Molson and Zima. Coors is committed to environmental responsibility because it believes it's good business - and it's the right thing to do. Coors also believes that good business practices embrace environmental stewardship. Coors is committed to protecting the environment by reducing the environmental impacts of their day-to-day operations and each stage of their product life-cycle. Coors has two breweries in the U.S. including the Golden brewery, which is the world's largest brewery on a single site. The facility located in Virginia's Shenandoah valley, near Elkton, is being expanded into a 6-7 million barrel brewery with completion expected in early 2007. Coors also operates container manufacturing facilities in Golden jointly with our partners, Ball Metal Container for aluminum cans and Owens-Illinois for glass bottles. The Coors grain elevators for barley storage are located in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado. Coors Distributing Company, a subsidiary of Coors Brewing Company, has facilities in Colorado and Idaho. "At Coors, we measure our success not only in terms of our financial performance, but also in terms of our corporate citizenship. How we treat our people, our communities and our environment is very important to us." - Frits van Paasschen, President and CEO | |