THE BEER STORE IN THE NEWS

JUNE 2010

Returns for Leukemia Bottle Drive Raises over $1 Million Dollars for Life Saving Leukemia and Lymphoma Research Toronto, June 4 - Take 2,300 volunteers, add 440 Beer Stores, mix it with thousands of caring customers, a fantastic spring weekend and a collective will to find a cure for Leukemia and Lymphoma and what do you get? $1.065 Million Dollars. That's what happened on the weekend of May 29th and 30th, when volunteers from The Beer Store and the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 12R24 partnered with the generous people of Ontario to raise money for Leukemia research ... read more

MAY 2010

The Beer Store receives the Retail Council of Canada Excellence in Retailing Award for Health and Safety Toronto, May 31 - The Beer Store, its managers, supervisors and employees were formally honoured by the Retail Council of Canada by receiving its Excellence in Retailing Award for Health and Safety based on successful achievement of the TBS "Getting to Zero" elements of the 2009 Health and Safety Action Plan. ... read more

JANUARY 2010

Canadian Business Journal Features The Beer Store Canadian Business Journal 2010 - The Beer Store: ONTARIO'S ultimate BEER SOURCE. Despite accusations from the temperance movement that alcohol was the source of most societal problems, the majority of Canadians strongly rejected the prohibition in the early 20th century–Quebec flatly refused it. Provincial referendums overthrew legislation in the mid-1920s and alcohol was made accessible to Canadians, once more. ... read more

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009

The Beer Store closing green gap, one kilowatt at a time Canadian Retailer November/December 2009 - The Beer Store recently received a 2009 Customer for Conservation acknowledgement from Toronto Hydro for its commitment to actively and devotedly continue to ramp up efforts toward creating a culture of conservation in Toronto. The Beer Store continues to steadily close the gap between wanting to do more in terms of energy conservation and actually succeeding in its attempt. And it has recently proven this once again through its involvement in the Toronto Hydro-Electric System Power Savings Blitz program. ... read more

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Deposit Return Helps Green Ontario's Economy Beer Store recovery of beer, wine and spirits packaging supports growth of Ontario recycling industry. Mississauga, Ont. (October 2, 2009) - The Beer Store (TBS) today released its seventh edition of "Responsible Stewardship", reporting on the remarkable performance and continued improvement of its world renowned deposit return based packaging recovery system. As the single largest collection system for consumer packaging in Canada, The Beer Store has once again set a global benchmark for the collection, reuse and recycling of beer packaging ... read more

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The Beer Store Doesn't Waste a Drop The Beer Store Doesn't Waste a Drop: Toronto Hydro's Featured Conservation Customer CNW (September 15, 2009) - By putting over-consumption 'on ice', The Beer Store, is bridging the gap between wanting to conserve electricity and actually doing it. Continuing to walk the talk on conservation, The Beer Store recently participated in the Toronto Hydro-Electric System ("Toronto Hydro") Power Savings Blitz program retrofitting 42 retail stores across Toronto. Thanks to the Power Saving Blitz program, The Beer Store will save approximately 184,000 kilowatt hours a year (kWh), removing approximately 38.5 tonnes of harmful CO2 emissions from the environment, the equivalent of nearly 8 cars off the road for one year ... read more

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Returns for Roger's House Mike Fisher to Visit the Beer Store in Support of Roger's House on Saturday, Sept. 12 OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Sept. 11, 2009) - Ottawa Senators forward Mike Fisher will visit The Beer Store on 499 Terry Fox Drive in Kanata at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, in support of their Returns for Roger's House program. On Saturday, 74 participating Beer Store locations across eastern Ontario will be accepting empty beer and wine bottles, with all proceeds from the bottles to be donated in support Rogers's House. ... read more