PRESERVING RESOURCES TO SECURE THE FUTURE

Rémy Cointreau and it's multi-century brands have a very special relationship with time; it creates the taste of amazement and pride. Taking a long-term approach, the Group’s Houses have always paid particular attention transmission as a way of securing the future. Their commitment to their terroirs drives them to implement ever more exemplary actions, in tune with climate conditions and to protect resources, in particular the scarcest resources, like water. The Group applies the strictest standards to measuring and reducing its environmental impact and its activities. 

Faced with the risk of water shortages and droughts in Barbados, Mount Gay is working on developing a water management plan as part of the Group's 2025 CSR goals. As rum manufacturing processes are water-intensive, the distillery limits the use of the island’s resources by prioritising the reuse of water already extracted for the distillation, as far as possible. The brand also closely monitors its water use across its infrastructure network to minimise waste. As part of a community minded and committed approach, Mount Gay has thus established measures to ensure the smart and moderate use of resources. 

Preserving water resources

All around the world, Rémy Cointreau aims to implement mappings to measure the actual water consumption of its production sites by 2025 . This year, this type of mapping was carried out at the Angers site for the first time. By implementing these actions worldwide in the future, the Group will limit the impact of its activities on this raw material essential to the development of Rémy Cointreau products.

Faced with the risk of water shortages and droughts in Barbados, Mount Gay is working on developing a water management plan as part of the Group's 2025 CSR goals. As rum manufacturing processes are water-intensive, the distillery limits the use of the island’s resources by prioritising the reuse of water already extracted for the distillation, as far as possible. The brand also closely monitors its water use across its infrastructure network to minimise waste. As part of a community minded and committed approach, Mount Gay has thus established measures to ensure the smart and moderate use of resources. 

Promoting best practices among the group’s employees 

To drive good practices, Rémy Cointreau relies on the collective motivation and intelligence of its women and men. For the first time this year, a week was organised to raise awareness among all employees of the need to reduce their carbon footprint. During this IT Green Week, employees were asked to pay special attention to deleting old emails (a source of server saturation), which can have a very high carbon footprint.  

In a bid to reduce carbon emissions , the Group also implements actions related to paperless processes. New tools were rolled out within the supplier accounting department to enable the receipt and processing of supplier invoices via a paperless process. All suppliers were contacted to inform them and raise awareness of these new document transfer methods. Paperless processes also involve a sharp rise in video conferencing, a smart alternative to carbon-intensive business travel.