Mahou San Miguel, a 100% Spanish family beverage company and leader in the national beer sector, plans to allocate nearly two million euros to its Canarian factory this year, to ensure its future competitiveness and sustainability. Despite the complexity of the current economic environment in the country, the brewery is reinforcing its investment in this plant, which it considers strategic. This figure is added to the 10 million employees in the last decade in this center, located on the grounds of the Valle de Güímar Industrial Estate attached to Candelaria, where more than 40 people work.
This year, the resources will be allocated to industrial projects to guarantee the quality, efficiency, reliability and productivity of the plant, highlighting the renovation of equipment in the bottle line and cellar. Added to this are initiatives aimed at optimizing the environmental behavior of the facilities. “This factory has the vocation of being a responsible citizen and has been contributing to the economic and social progress of its surroundings for more than 15 years,” says Fernando Bustamante, general manager of the Canary Islands Business Unit of Mahou San Miguel. “For this reason, year after year, we reinforce our investment to equip our facilities with the latest available technologies and make them more competitive, which allows us to continue generating employment and local wealth, with the least possible environmental impact.”
The company contributed 21 million euros to the Canarian economy in the last year, bought goods and services worth 3.5 million euros from 91 local companies and generated more than 4,500 indirect jobs in this region, according to the conclusions of the study Socioeconomic impact of Mahou San Miguel in 2021”, carried out by the consultant Valora.
In the last decade, the Tenerife plant has registered a significant improvement in its environmental indicators, highlighting the 2.2% decrease in its CO2 emissions. This production center wants to be carbon neutral by 2030 and prioritizes its energy efficiency. In fact, 100% of the energy it consumes is already 100% green and of certified origin.
The contribution to the socioeconomic progress of the areas in which it operates is one of the key strategic axes in terms of Sustainability of Mahou San Miguel for the next decade, Let’s Go 2030, aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
