2013-2014
Sustainable Development of Obolon Corporation
Official Report
укр eng рус
Download
GRI PDF
Development Plans
Report Overview
Production Innovations
Production Facilities Structure Brand portfolio Management System Innovations Technologies
All Sections
Corporation
Corporation
Sustainable development is a key element of the Obolon Corporation’s strategy. It allows the company to implement its corporate ambitions and fully develop each of its CSR areas: employee development, environment protection, promotion of sports, and support of the local communities.
Appeal from the PresidentSocial MissionReputationBusiness Operations StandardsCorporate StructureCorporate ManagementStakeholders
Production
Production
Producing beverages with a high level of quality and safety is the basis for the long-term development of the Obolon Corporation. Stability of production processes and guaranteed quality and safety of its beverages ensure that the company achieves its goals on the way to sustainability.
Production Facilities StructureBrand portfolioManagement SystemInnovationsTechnologies
Economics
Economics
Obolon makes both a direct and an indirect impact on the economy of the country as a whole and specific regions where its facilities are located through job creation, paying taxes to the local and state budgets, development of related industries, and support of the social culture.
Financial and Economic ResultsProduction IndicatorsEfficient ActivityRisks
Environment
Environment
Climate change, resource depletion, and energy dependence are the challenges of the 21st century for individuals as well as for large manufacturers. Reduction of environmental impact and conservation of nature are priorities for Obolon as the largest Ukrainian beverage producer.
Efficient Use of ResourcesWasteless Production
Society
Society
Adhering to the principles of sustainable development, Obolon views the participation in the social life of the regions where its facilities are located as an important component of developing Ukrainian society as well as its own business.
Development of RegionsPromotion of SportsEducational ProjectsSponsorship and Volunteering

Innovations

Obolon's history has a number of facts proving its innovative character. Built under a Czech project, the brewery started making beer that quickly gained a wide popularity.

Obolon was the first among former Soviet companies that started to export beer.

  • 1989 Obolon was the first to start export supplies  of beer to European countries and the USA. The beer under the Obolon trademark was accepted worldwide as a traditional Ukrainian beer.
  • 1989 The first batch of Zhiguli Beer was supplied to Great Britain.
  • 1994 At the initiative of O. Slobodyan, the company's President, Obolon was the first in Europe to create a market of low-alcohol drinks (Gin Tonic, Rum Cola, Brandy Cola, etc.)
  • 1998 Obolon was the first in Ukraine to start marketing beer in its own glass bottle under the NRW standard.
Obolon was the first in Ukraine to use new packaging, PET and tin cans, as well as its own branded bottle.
  • 1999 Obolon established a PET packaging segment in the 1 and 2 litre Ukrainian beer market and produced 30-litre kegs for restaurants and bars.
  • 1999 The legendary Zhyvchyk soft drink entered the market and quickly won popularity with a wide range of consumers.
Today, Zhyvchyk is the leader in the soft drinks market.
  • 2001 Release of Zhyvchyk Unique, a soft drink that contains fructose instead of sugar.
  • 2003 The company released a 5-litre beer pin, 'Obolon' and 'Obolon Non-Alcoholic'.
  • 2004 The company started producing light beer 'Classic' in 1 l PET bottles of.
4 cutting edge laboratories of the Obolon brewery, namely experimental, production, and radiological laboratories as well as a technical control unit ensure continuous formula improvements, product quality analysis, and development of innovative products.
USD 100 million
have been invested in the Malting Plant construction project.
  • 2008 The company commissioned a plant for processing spent grain into granules at its main brewery. The innovative project extended the portfolio of the company's environmental programmes.
  • 2008 The company opened a malting plant in Chemerivtsi. It is one of the most advanced European enterprises in terms of equipment and technology levels.
Malting plant in Chemerivtsi today 
700 tons of grain crops per day
120,000 tons of malt per year
180,000 tons of barley per year
capacity of the plant for drying brewing grain waste
capacity of the malting plant
processed by the brewery per year
50%
the volume of recycled water is used in the production processes.

The company has implemented a number of innovative solutions at the brewery. They improve the process significantly and reduce resource consumption:

  • round-type malting beds
  • a dry barley transportation system; no water is used
  • hot wind recuperation in the drying section
  • a unique waste water treatment system

Practices

Corporation
Appeal from the PresidentSocial MissionReputationBusiness Operations StandardsCorporate StructureCorporate ManagementStakeholders
Production
Production Facilities StructureBrand portfolioManagement SystemInnovationsTechnologies
People
Working Environment Life and HealthEthics and Equal RightsPersonnel DevelopmentIncentives and Motivation
Economics
Financial and Economic ResultsProduction IndicatorsEfficient ActivityRisks
Environment
Efficient Use of ResourcesWasteless Production
Society
Development of RegionsPromotion of SportsEducational ProjectsSponsorship and Volunteering
© Obolon, 2014
Download the Report
GRI in HTML tables As PDF

2013-2014
Sustainable Development of Obolon Corporation
Official Report