Royal Swinkles Family Brewers

Circularity | Strategy development | Sustainable procurement | Implementation | Reporting

About the client

Royal Swinkels Family Brewers (SFB) is one of the largest beer breweries in the Netherlands. The family business has been around for 300 years and currently employs approximately 1,800 people.

About the project

2BHonest assisted SFB with the integration and implementation of its circular and sustainable business operations. The Swinkels Circularity Index (SCI) was developed as a mechanism to measure their circularity performance on three core processes: circular procurement, circular production and high-value reuse. The index enables the circularity performance of the entire organisation to be linked to concrete objectives, insight to be gained into the processes and adjustments to be made where necessary in order to achieve the sustainability goals. In 2021, SFB won the Sijthoff Award whereby the SCI was specifically mentioned by the jury.

“Together with 2BHonest, we have developed a circularity model that matches our company and our purpose. Not only did this enable us to make circularity measurable, but also to generate the necessary support and motivation within the company.”

Marthijn Junggeburth
Sustainability Manager at SFB