2025 Impact Awards Winner: Coke Canada Bottling

Toward a Better Future, Together, the company’s sustainability action plan, is an ambitious step for intentional environmental sustainability. 

The inspiration? Coke Canada Bottling is a family-owned Canadian business with close local connections to the communities in which it operates. 

A key driver is to deliver optimism and create better futures for employees, customers, consumers and communities. 

One way to reach that goal is prioritizing environmental sustainability. 

In 2024, it adopted several sustainable initiatives across its system, with a focus on recycling, fleet, water and energy. 

Coke Canada Bottling cut total direct and supplied energy emissions by 13% and increased the average recycled content to 24% across PET packaging. 

It also launched its first zero-waste-to-landfill program. Investments were made in energy-efficient technologies, like electric tractors and service vans, and in a water and energy information management system at its Brampton, Ont. facility, which allowed for more accurate water usage monitoring. 

“We're working to earn our social license to operate by building our business responsibly and making our stakeholders and employees proud,” says Tony Chow, president, Coke Canada Bottling.

“We're taking meaningful action on environmental sustainability and are committed to continued collaboration with our employees, suppliers, customers and communities as we work to make a positive impact, together."