Site Selector
Current Site: Egypt
Site Selector
Current Site: Egypt
Sustainability is fundamental to our business strategy, which aims to create and share value with all of our stakeholders. This defines how we run our business, carry out our activities and develop our relationships.
To address key global challenges affecting our industry, our communities and our planet, we collaborate across all business functions with the aim of seeking solutions.
Sustainability is the core of what we do at Coca-Cola Hellenic Egypt. Sustainability is integrated into every aspect of the business, to name a few: growth, marketing, distribution, and packaging.
In 2021, the Coca-Cola HBC Group made a commitment to achieve net zero emissions across our entire value chain by 2040. To reach Net Zero by 2040, we will reduce our direct emissions to an absolute minimum, and we will work in partnership with our suppliers to eliminate the 90% of our carbon footprint that results from third parties. Wherever we can’t eliminate emissions entirely, we will mitigate or remove those by investing in other climate protection measures.
Having joined Coca-Cola HBC in 2022, the business in Egypt is fully committed to contributing to these ambitions and has started its journey to align projects and initiatives to the Group goals.
We also believe every package has value and life beyond its initial use and that it should be collected and recycled into a new package. Together with our suppliers and partners, we are working to design more sustainable packaging and take action to ensure that our packaging does not end up as waste.
Some of the areas in which we are already making progress include:
Our production of bottles and cans that reach consumers are 100% recyclable!
Through our partnership with BariQ, the largest “bottle-to-bottle” recycler and producer of rPET pellets in the Middle East and Africa, we support the collection and recycling of PET bottles in Egypt. In 2022, more than 31,000 tonnes of PET bottles were recycled, delivering a packaging collection rate of 43% for Coca-Cola HBC Egypt. Through this ongoing partnership, we continue to support collection and high-quality recycling in the region.
Dawarha with Coca-Cola is a recycling campaign that aims to foster a culture of recycling and environmental stewardship in Egypt.
Launched as part of Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of the World Cup, the campaign invited consumers to exchange and recycle 10 Coca-Cola cans or ‘golden lids’ at 26 redemption centres across the country, for a chance to win a jersey from the Egyptian team.
The campaign has since been extended to universities across Egypt, offering ‘recycle and win’ incentives to more than 3,000 students.
We were proud to be the first company in Egypt to install a fully Solar Energy Powered plant at Sadat, the largest PET production facility in the Middle East. This supports our goal to reduce emissions, and transition to more sustainable energy sources. Our solar solutions allows us to produce 1.8 gigawatts of electricity per year, and will eliminate 33,000 tonnes of CO2 over the coming 25 years.
Empowering young people and women has always been a priority for us.
We support this goal in several ways; equipping youth and women with the skills, training and tools they need to become economically independent and by integrating them within our value chain. We also proudly support differently-abled youth to capture new sources of income.
These are just some examples:
We support young entrepreneurs who are recent graduates in Sheikh Zayed City by providing Coca-Cola products and sales training to help them gain experience and start their own businesses.
In cooperation with the NGO Misr el Kheir, we have provided ‘start-up’ support to youth in upper Egypt. To date, 50 tricycles, filled with Coca-Cola products, have been donated to these young people, with the aim of helping them to develop an entrepreneurial business, while benefitting from the Coca-Cola value chain.
In collaboration with the Orman Cooperation, we also empower women in upper Egypt to start their own business by providing them with small kiosks of Coca-Cola coolers, product, and training.
We are also committed to supporting vulnerable young people and those with special needs.
Coca-Cola HBC Egypt signed an agreement with Alhassan Foundation to support differently-abled people, through its “Source of Income” project. The project aims to empower and integrate wheelchair users within our value chain by providing professional sales training, tools, and equipment and ultimately new sources of income.
We are a proud beverage partner to the Differently Abled Carnaval, for people with disabilities for three years now; a joyful performance of art, music and handcraft exhibitions in the presence of the Egyptian president.
We are involved in various NGO events on Orphans Day each year and also support the ‘I’m Egyptian’ foundation, painting buildings, homes, and schools for street children in Upper Egypt: Aswan, Nubia, and Siwa.
Coca-Cola is also the official drink partner for the Egyptian Sports Federation for Intellectual Disability.
We are committed to earning our license to operate by creating and sharing value across Egypt, through volunteering, in-kind donations and financial support where it’s needed most.
These are some recent examples of how we invest in local communities.
Our employees volunteered to participate in an “Earth Hour” initiative for waste collection in the Wadi Degla Protectorate. While connecting with nature, our volunteers had the opportunity to learn about the history of the 50-million-year-old protectorate and the biodiversity that must be protected there.
During Covid-19 pandemic, we launched a number of initiatives in cooperation with the government to support Egyptian society.
We supported the Egyptian medical teams, known as “The White Army”, by donating more than a million bottles of water to the Ministry of Health and hospitals across Egypt.
Together with The Coca-Cola Company, we deployed our “Our Red Army” initiative, working to protect small and mid-sized businesses together with the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Our donation of 1 million dollars delivered financial, marketing and healthcare-awareness support to our customers and struggling businesses.
