Sustainability
Strategy

Materiality Study

In 2012, we carried out a materiality analysis, identifying best practices globally, interviewing key executives, dialogues with representatives of external stakeholders executives, sustainability experts and employees. Through this exercise we identified the material issues that impact our business.

The material issues for our business include the following:

  • They are those in which Coca-Cola FEMSA may generate greater value.
  • They are issues in which we have a sufficient degree of maturity that allow us to be agents of change.
  • Previous investments have been made in these areas.
  • They have elements that may be converted into a competitive advantage and that allow us to stand out in the market.
  • They are important to our stakeholders and we have identified that for some of them we may join efforts to create positive changes.

Strategic Sustainability Framework

The Sustainability Strategy provides us with the guidelines to achieve our mission to positively transform the communities where we operate, supported by our Ethics and Values.

Materiality
Assessment

Based on the above, the most important strategic issues for both the company and the stakeholders are:

OUR MATERIALITY
  • Our People
  • Our Community
  • Our Planet
  1. Local environmental impact
  2. Safety in our communities
  3. Wellbeing in our communities
  4. Waste management
  5. Responsible marketing
  6. Nutrition and physical Activation
  7. Water
  8. Sustainable products
  9. Packaging and recycling
  10. Energy
  11. Training and development
  12. Transportation impacts
  13. Supplier development
  14. Compensation
  15. Health and safety
  16. Culture and values

2020
Goals

Our 2020 Goals for each pillar of the Sustainability Strategy
guide us to measure our progress.

Our Community

Our Planet

Our People


Our Community

Healthy Lifestyles

  • Benefit 5 million people with our nutrition and physical activation programs and initiatives.

Community Development

  • Have Social License programs in 100% of our priority plants and distribution centers.


Our Planet

Water

  • Increase our efficiency in water usage to 1.5 liters of water per liter of beverage produced.
  • Return to our communities and their environment the same amount of water used in our beverages.

Waste and recycling

  • Integrate 25% of recycled or renewable materials in our PET packaging.
  • Recycle at least 90% of our waste in every one of our bottling plants.

Energy

  • Supply 85% of the energy used in manufacturing in Mexico with clean energy sources.
  • Reduce by 20% the carbon footprint of our value chain vs 2010 


Our People

Comprehensive Development

  • Generate 1 million hours of volunteer work.
  • Achieve a Lost Time Incident Rate (LTIR) of 0.5 per 100 associates.
  • Reduce by 20% the general illness absentee rate vs 2010.
  • Zero fatalities from work-related diseases.

Sustainable
Development Goals

We are committed to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Many of our initiatives contribute to the 17 objectives with specific actions, however, we are convinced that through our strategic framework and initiatives we can have a larger impact in the following nine.

Several of our projects are focused on Healthy Habits for Our Community, such as the Latin American Commitment for a Healthy Future that we recently launched and the social programs from FEMSA Foundation.
We are committed to promoting healthy habits. This way, we have already accomplished our 2020 goal to benefit 5 million people with our nutrition and physical activation programs. In addition, we offer a portfolio of total beverages, and we carry out responsible marketing strategies for our products.
Our production processes ensure the efficient use of water, as well as correct wastewater treatment. We are committed to return to nature and to the communities all the water used to produce our beverages.
Our 2020 goal is to supply 85% of the energy we use in manufacturing in Mexico with clean sources, and we continue to introduce clean energy in all countries where we operate reaching a 50% share of clean energy for our manufacturing needs.
We look for economic growth through the efficient use of resources, by promoting a work environment that offers comprehensive development, by creating jobs in emerging markets, and by applying our sustainable sourcing principles.

“In line with our sustainability strategy, we contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.”

We work on innovative processes in the industry, aiming to develop local suppliers and to improve our environmental performance, which is why our 2020 goal is to reduce our carbon footprint by 20% across our value chain.
We communicate our sustainability results annually through our Integrated Report, and have established goals to ensure a responsible consumption of raw materials, to achieve greater efficiencies, and to encourage recycling.
We collaborate with other companies, government and NGOs to clean water bodies to reduce water pollution through volunteer cleanup activities.
We recognize that complex challenges in an ever-changing, complex context require coming up with innovative solutions that can only be achieved and put into action together. We embrace this reality and partner with other companies, government, NGOs and other institutions to maximize our impact.

“In line with our sustainability strategy, we contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.”