Australian Liquor Marketers

SUPPLIER PARTNERS AUSTRALIAN LIQUOR MARKETERS

ROD PRITCHARD, INTERIM CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Australian Liquor Marketers (ALM) is part of the Metcash Trading Ltd. Group, and is Australia and New Zealand’s leading broad range liquor wholesaler. ALM operate the Independent Brands Australia (IBA) retail network, representing ~2,700 independently owned retail outlets across Australia.

For ALM and the Metcash business at large, our success is underpinned by demonstrating our commitment to corporate responsibility, and the leadership role we play in supporting local communities through our retail network right across the nation.

As we operate primarily as a wholesaler (not a manufacturer), the majority of our environmental and sustainability initiatives are focused on the management of our Distribution Centres (DC’s) to ensure we minimise the environmental impacts from these sites.

Waste & Recycling - We work closely with our contractors, building managers and employees to promote better recycling and recovery, and also reduce the volume of material going to landfill at our sites. Approximately 86% of our DC’s waste over the past year was diverted from landfill, with the majority being paper, plastics and cardboard sent for recycling.

Last year, Metcash committed to eliminating the distribution and sale of single use plastic bags, and we continue to work to deliver this commitment right across our retail network. To encourage the transition from single use to environmentally friendly alternatives, we offer a range of reusable bags that are available in stores, with strong take-up across the network. We are also committed to working with our suppliers to reduce plastic packaging as we look to alternatives to single use plastic.

Emissions & Energy reduction

- Metcash reports on annual basis against the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) which facilitates the ability for companies to benchmarks themselves on environmental performance. Over the last twelve months we have reduced our energy consumed by over 8.5%, having reduced energy usage and associated emissions through a number of initiatives, including the retro-fitting of LED lighting across our DC network and the charging of forklifts during non-peak periods.

Over the next twelve months, Metcash in conjunction with our Landlords, will review the opportunity to introduce solar power into its DC’s in an effort to further reduce our emissions. We are also exploring the introduction of renewable energy sources within the build of our new Distribution Centre in Gepps Cross, South Australia.

Health, Wellbeing & Safety - Metcash maintains a focus on creating a “Zero Harm” environment within the work place, with a commitment to the prevention of work-related injury and illness to employees, visitors, contractors and members of the public in all areas in which we operate.

Metcash has adopted a more disciplined Incident Investigation process utilising the ICAM methodology to deliver an improvement in the investigation process and more robust corrective actions. As more personnel are trained this is expected to deliver further reductions in incident rates particularly in partnership with an increased emphasis placed on leading safety activities such as hazard reporting and rectification, site inspections, communication sessions and safety engagement conversations conducted across all levels of the organisation.

The theme of ‘making safety simple’ continues to generate positive engagement and response as we reduce unnecessary complexity and simplify our processes. FY20 will see us explore several new areas of safety activity including trials of wearable technology to assist in reducing muscular skeletal exposure and the introduction of ‘Safer Me - Safer Metcash’, a campaign intended to educate and equip our workforce in adopting safe habits 24/7.

The Team at ALM look forward to playing our role as a responsible contributor to the environmental and sustainability efforts of our industry, and the collective difference we can make for the future…

Regards, Rod

HEAD OFFICE

1 Thomas Holt Drive, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113 Tel: 02 9741 3000

Web:

www.cellarbrations.com.au www.thebottle-o.com.au www.igaliquor.com.au www.duncans.com.au