This document discusses the history and corporate social responsibility efforts of BGI Ethiopia, formerly known as St. George Brewery. It traces the company's origins back to 1922 when it was established by a Belgian national. Over the decades, it expanded production and changed ownership until it was nationalized in 1974. Today, BGI engages in various CSR initiatives focused on environment, customers, employees, and community. These include waste reduction, energy conservation, and creating awareness of its social and legal activities. The company also obtained ISO 9000 accreditation for its quality program.

1. • COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
• DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT
• M.SC. IN MANAGEMENT,
• YEAR I SEMESTER II (2018-19)
• CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MGT OSC-5212
• DR. YOHANES W. (PHD)
• Submitted by :Woldeamanuel Mitiku
• ID# GSR/3375/11
• woldeamanuel2@gmail.com

2. Philosophy of St. George
• “አንድ ጊዜ ሲጎነጩት ለዘጠና ስድስት ዓመት በላይ የቆየ ልዪ ጣዕም፤ በአለም አቀፍዊ
ባለሙያ በሆኑ የተጠመቀ ጣዕሙ ልዪ የሆነ ኢትዮጵያዊ ቃናው አያሌ ትዝታዎችን
ይቀሰቅስቦታል፤ በሀሴት ስሜት ውስጥ ይከቶታል፤ድርጅታችን ለተፈጥሮ እንክብካቤ ዋጋ
ይሠጣል ።”
• “Beer is as old as human history. Beer is one of the world's oldest
prepared beverages, possibly dating back to the early Neolithic or 9500
BC. And St. George Beer has been in the market in Ethiopia for 96 years.
Chers for more memorable years!”

3. History of BGI Ethiopia Began from 1922
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•Started in 1922. Mussie Hal, a Belgian national of Ethiopian descent
•established St. George Brewery after concluding an agreement with the monarchy.
•Mr. Hal bought 20,000 square meters of land near the present day Mexico Square in Addis Ababa.
•the factory started brewing and production of St. George Beer. Production capacity did not exceed
200-300 bottles per day during that period.

4. History
•In 1936, after the occupation of Addis Ababa, the Italians took over St.
George Brewery.
•Installment of new machineries and the expansion done
•Italians produced reached three to four thousand bottles of beer per day
and the first draft beer was introduced

5. During the Dergu regime till to date
• Starting from the 1940s St. George Brewery’s ownership was assigned to
the private domain of Emperor Haile Sellassie I and four other individuals
till to nationalization.
• St. George Brewery was nationalized and handed over to The Ministry of
Finance in 1974 when the military junta “Dergue” came to power.
• St. George Beer’s popularity grew and expand
• After the fall Dergue BGI Ethiopia has also ventured into the winemaking
business the first privately owned

6. Corporate social responsibility
• One of human kind’s greatest challenges in this century is to ensure
sustainability
• The needs of current and future generations cannot to be meeting
unless there is respect for natural systems and international standards
to protect core social and environmental values.
• Strategically speaking, business can only flourish when the
communities and ecosystems in which they operate within healthy
environment permanently.

7. Corporate social responsibility
• CSR include a broad spectrum of activities, ranging from internal
human resource health and safety and management, to
environmental protection, and includes every aspect of firm’s
impact on society.
• In fact, when pursued as an abstract to concept, CSR is not easy
for the public to understand.
• The Company was needed to explain what they stand for
• How CSR was carried out, how society gets benefit from such
actions.

8. Corporate social responsibility
• CSR activities categorize under the headings; Environment,
Customers, Employees and Community.
• Firstly, in relation to the environment, the most common
activities include waste reduction and recycling.
• Energy conservation was also quite common. To a lesser
extent; reduction in water consumption, air pollution and
packaging carries out by industries product.

9. Corporate social responsibility
• Creating awareness in the mind of all stakeholders
• Employing organization to develop a sentimental bond
with it and are more likely to remain in their current work
place.
• CSR practice was linked to employees ‘behaviors and
withdrawal cognitions’, such as organizational citizenship
behaviors and turnover.

10. Corporate social responsibility
• Is a legal activity and it is important for social well-being.
• The perceptions of employees about the organizations legal activities largely
affect the employee organizational citizenship behaviors
• For example, when an employee observes that the organization unethical acts
like release chemicals, speared water pollution just to save some money, then
the society was greatly affects and highly discourage.
• Citizens of the society expect that the business operations should performs in
an efficient and effective way and they also achieve their targets and goals
within a legal way

11. Corporate social responsibility
• The regulatory part develop standard measures.
• For instance, brewery, Mining, tanneries and textiles are seen as
most pollutant and non-compliant regardless of the Industrial
Pollution Law and associated Proclamation in force.
• Because of the above mentioned challenges the citizen forced
to damage some industry and plants for the last few years.

12. ISO 9000 Accreditation for BGI
Ethiopia
• In ISO 9000 an accredited registrar, for a fee,
assesses a company's quality program and
determines if it is in compliance with ISO 9000
standards.
• If the company's quality program is in compliance,
the registrar issues it a certificate and registers that
certificate in a book that is widely distributed.

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