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Grupo Bimbo is first company in Mexico and Latin America who joins RE100 and commits to being 100 percent renewable by 2025
Daniel Servitje, President and CEO of Grupo Bimbo said,
Adding to Servitje's position, Jorge Zárate, Vice President of Global Operations at Grupo Bimbo and the leader of the environmental initiative of the company, stressed, " ."
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The supplies clean energy to company's plants and certain work centers throughout Mexico . This year, "Bimbo Solar" was launched in Mexico , with several systems using solar panels on rooftops. In April of this year, the company announced that by 2019 it would be 75 percent renewable worldwide after signing an agreement for a 100 megawatt windfarm, to make its United States operations 100 percent renewable electricity, achieving a total global reduction of 440,000 tons of CO per year. These initiatives are added to others already in effect in countries such as Colombia and Spain .
By joining RE100, Grupo Bimbo once again reinforces its commitment to the environment and to society, understanding its role as an agent for change to create long-term value with actions and policies aimed at protecting the planet and the wellbeing of all its inhabitants.
Mike Peirce , Corporate Partnerships Director, The Climate Group, welcomed the commitment, saying, " "
Grupo Bimbo's sustainability strategy concentrates its efforts along four lines of action related to environmental protection: reducing its carbon footprint; managing wastes; and natural capital. For further information on Grupo Bimbo's sustainability efforts, visit https://www.grupobimbo.com/en/sustaintability.
Grupo Bimbo is the world's leader in the baking industry. It has over 141 thousand associates, in 2016 reached sales for 14.4 billion US dollars . It has 202 production plants and close to 1,800 sales centers strategically located in 32 countries around the world, within four continents. It produces over 13 thousand products under more than 100 umbrella brands of reknown prestige, in categories such as loaf bread, buns and toasted bread. It also has a wide distribution network in the countries where it is present, which is one of the largest in the American continent. Grupo Bimbo is listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) under the BIMBO ticker. Grupo Bimbo restates its commitment with the environment, through its environmental sustainability programs in all the countries where it has operations. For additional information on Grupo Bimbo, please visit: www.grupobimbo.com, Look for us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/GrupoBimbo and Twitter: @GrupoBimbo.