Corporate Responsibility

Corporate Responsibility at Brown-Forman

Brown-Forman’s highest purpose is to enrich the experience of life. We believe we can only achieve this by being responsible in everything we do. This approach is aligned with our recently launched corporate strategy, Building Forever, which will guide our business to our 150th anniversary in 2020.

Here we report the highlights of our social and environmental ambitions, actions, goals, and performance. We define our key issues, explain our management approach, and provide data, examples, and links to further sources.

We produce a full-length corporate responsibility report every two years. Download our 2011-2012 Corporate Responsibility Report, Enriching the Experience of Life, below. We will update our metrics in 2012 and publish our next full report in summer 2013.

Case Studies

Read about corporate responsibility in action from around Brown-Forman’s global business.

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2011 Scorecard

2011 Scorecard

Brown-Forman’s 2011 Scorecard presents data across the areas of responsible marketing, environmental sustainability, employee relations, economic contribution, and community involvement. Previous years’ reporting has been archived and is available here.

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Issues Forum

An important part of our work on alcohol responsibility is reflected on Our Thinking About Drinking: The Issues Forum, where our perspective and positions on alcohol topics are shared, the opinions of expert contributors are included, and your comments are encouraged.

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Latest News

MMA Renewable Ventures and 3 Phases Energy Services Deliver Innovative, Affordable Solar Energy Solution for Fetzer Vineyards

October 6, 2006 | San Francisco, CA

Fetzer Vineyards will place the wine industry's largest solar array atop its winery bottling facility in Hopland, generating 1.1 million kilowatt hours of clean electricity annually, enough to offset more than 960,000 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the equivalent of taking approximately 80 cars off the road for a year or planting 130 acres of trees.

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