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We are proud to announce that the largest and most advanced beer company in Poland, Kompania Piwowarska, has received our Foundation’s Gold Seal of Approval as a Socially Responsible Company.  We welcome Managing Director, Karl Lippert, Director of Corporate Affairs, Pawel Kwiatkowski, PR Manager Barbara Pleban, and the more than 2,600 employees of Kompania Piwowarska to the Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility.  

Kompania Piwowarska SA is the leader on the Polish beer market. Several hundred years of experience in brewing, adherence to strict international standards and advanced technologies assure top quality of their refined beers. Kompania Piwowarska’s brands include the most popular beers with Polish consumers: TYSKIE, the largest beer brand in Poland, LECH, Dębowe Mocne, Żubr, Miller Genuine Draft, Pilsner Urquell, REDD’s and Dog in the Fog.
 
The company was created in 1999 from the merger of Tyskie Browary Ksi±żęce and Lech Browary Wielkopolski. Browar Dojlidy joined the company in 2003. Today the company is the largest and most advanced business in the beer industry, with a market share of over 35%. In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005, Kompania Piwowarska achieved a net profit of PLN 481million, generating sales valued at over PLN 3.3 billion.

Kompania Piwowarska is a company which from its very inception has experienced continual growth and has achieved considerable success. They employ over 2,600 people, working together directly with around 600 distribution firms and indirectly with some 60,000 retail and catering outlets. They also purchase services and products from numerous small and large companies, and they estimate that Kompania Piwowarska assures a livelihood, directly or indirectly, to around 115,000people in Poland.

Kompania Piwowarska is part of SABMiller plc – the world’s second largest beer maker. The company is present in 40 countries on four continents and its portfolio includes over 100 strong brands.

Corporate Social Responsibility is the lynchpin of Kompania Piwowarska according to Managing Director Karl Lippert.  “It is my profound belief that the activities of Kompania Piwowarska cannot be limited to making profits and earning money. We are members of a wider community – Poznań, Tychy, Białystok and all the towns where our branches are located. We also feel part of the entire Polish community, through our products, which reach all corners of Poland, but also through our contribution to the domestic economy.

Our work has an effect on all these communities and on the whole economy, on the labor market, the foodstuffs market, the natural environment, and also the condition of the state budget, for which we are an important partner. Besides this, we remain constantly aware of the influence we have, through the decisions we make today, on the lives of future generations, which have the right to a clean environment, to be born in a clean, healthy and prosperous country.

By pursuing our activities in an honest, ethical and responsible way, we have the chance to
win the gratitude not only of our staff and the consumers of our excellent products, but of all
our fellow Polish citizens. This responsibility requires great vision and sensitivity: for this reason, we strive at every turn to ensure that others regard us not as troublesome neighbors,
but rather as partners by choice.”

We thank the great folks at Kompania Piwowarska for joining us in our efforts to eliminate corruption and hunger in Poland.