Encouraging enterprise development

We value cooperation with our suppliers and consumers. Our intention is to ensure that the the result of our cooperation is positive for us and all of society. We implement the “Responsible Supplier Principles” formulated by the SABMiller group and we believe that correct relations, long-term cooperation, the quality of delivered goods and services will elevate our business relations to a durable partnership. We expect our partners to adopt an equally responsible approach and ethical behaviour.

Our group responsible supplier principles in brief:

• Business conduct based on open and transparent dealings
• Safe and healthy working conditions
• Prohibition of forced, involuntary and child labour
• Wages in accordance with legal regulations
• Respecting the principle of equal opportunity, regardless of gender, origin, sexual orientation, religious creed or political persuasion
• Freedom of association in union organisations
• Environmental protection

OUR INITIATIVES

The high quality of the raw materials supplied is monitored carefully using the Quality Management System. The aim is to achieve permanent relationships with our suppliers, based on mutual trust and support and on the fact that Plzensky Prazdroj wishes to be a good but demanding customer.

Active cooperation with partners
In acting with our partners we believe that dialogue and the mutual exchange of information are the path to fairness in establishing business principles. With our key suppliers, particularly the suppliers of hops and barley, we have continued to actively cooperate and have organised meetings and seminars. Together with our suppliers, 87 % of whom are resident in the Czech Republic, we created turnover totalling CZK 5.9 billion in 2011. 

Supporting local agriculture and suppliers
On the Czech market, Plzeňský Prazdroj is the second largest consumer of malt barley and the main consumer of barley varieties approved for Czech beer production. These varieties formed almost 90 % of barley consumed by us with the remainder also coming from the Czech Republic. We purchase barley locally: 60 % of the barley we need is bought from farmers and 40 % from business associations and dealers. We have met our long-term commitments to farmers and purchased from them a similar volume of barley as in previous years to the value of over CZK 500 million, all of which went to Czech farmers. The skills of Czech farmers in growing crops of the highest quality have enabled us to continue brewing our beer by traditional recipes and under the “České pivo” geographical indication.

Grain and hop days
We organised regular meetings with barley and hop growers in the Czech Republic in order to enhance our cooperation and to strengthen the principle of partnership in our relations by emphasising the quality of raw materials for Czech beer. At these meetings we gave growers the latest information in seed propagation.

35th year of the brewers and maltsters seminar
In Pilsen, Plzeňský Prazdroj hosted the 35th brewers and maltsters seminar, which was attended by more than 200 specialists. The partners were the Brewers and Maltsters Research Institute and the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague with international participation. Those lecturing included laureate of the Czech brewing industry hall of fame Gabriela Basařová, DrSc, who spoke on the theme of Czech beer in national life, folk creativity and art. The seminar’s goals have remained unchanged since the first year it was held in 1958. The main purpose is sharing brewing knowledge and expert information among Czech and foreign professionals, passing on experience from growing raw materials, the production of malt and beer and the technical side of brewing. The informal exchange of opinions and experience between maltsters, brewing experts and suppliers is an equally important goal. 

Questionnaire for suppliers

If you agree with and abide by our principles as a responsible supplier, you can express your support by submitting the form below.

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