VIKING-MALT
Viking Malt has set Science Based Targets, committing to a 42% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from its own activities (Scope 1 & 2) by 2030. However, the majority of Viking Malt’s total emissions, 87%, are Scope 3 emissions from their suppliers, mainly occurring on-farm.
This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240201888552/en/
Viking Malt, a globally acknowledged producer of malt, is introducing a new sustainability performance platform, developed by the Swedish technology company Improvin’. Photo: Viking Malt.
Many of Viking Malt’s customers are large enough to have reduction targets covering even their Scope 3 emissions. To support their clients in achieving this goal, Viking Malt is committed to working with its stakeholders across the supply chain, identifying areas for emissions reductions and adjusting processes and practices.
With barley sourced from farmers across Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland and Lithuania, Viking Malt has been seeking ways to effectively measure and reduce these emissions.
Annika Wilhelmson, VP of Sustainability, Innovation & Marketing at Viking Malt Group: “Our farmers are central to our sustainability journey. With this new platform, we're empowering over 1200 farmers across Europe to actively engage in climate-smart and sustainable farming. This enables us to track and validate the impact of their sustainable practices effectively and fosters a collaborative approach to reducing emissions.”
The new platform provides Viking Malt with a detailed overview of the farms’ sustainability performance, setting a foundation for sustainable farming initiatives in which growers can adjust their practices based on feedback that builds on real-time data.
With the platform’s scalable data collection, farmer reporting becomes easy. “We want our farmers to be able to focus on sustainable and profitable agriculture, not extensive reporting,” Annika emphasizes.
The new platform equips Viking Malt with a verified ingredient footprint, biodiversity data and supply chain insights that they can share with their network of breweries, distilleries and food manufacturers. Viking Malt expects this transparency to drive positive change across the industry.
Annika concludes: “Our commitment to sustainable food and beverage production is shared by the industry. Success requires a collaborative approach throughout, and even beyond, our own value chain. We're excited to lead and inspire our partners and customers on this journey.”
Niklas Wallsargård, CEO of Improvin’ adds: “We're both proud and excited to work with Viking Malt, a family company showing deep commitment to drive sustainable impact through their products. Together, we can drive a meaningful change in this industry.”
About Viking Malt
Viking Malt is a globally acknowledged producer of malt for breweries, distilleries, and food manufacturers. With six malt houses in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, and Poland, Viking Malt offers a diverse range of malt varieties, catering to the unique needs of their customers. The company advocates for increased sustainability through malt by promoting regenerative farming practices, continuously improving energy and water efficiency in the malting process, reducing emissions, and leading innovation in new types of malts.
About Improvin’
Improvin’ is a Swedish technology company providing a sustainability performance platform for the agri-food industry. Food brands, processors and mills use the platform to quantify, verify and report emissions from their primary production and collaborate with their suppliers to reduce emissions and enhance biodiversity. Improvin's digital infrastructure enables agri-food businesses to incorporate sustainability into their existing sourcing processes while meeting regulatory standards for reporting with primary data.
To view this piece of content from cts.businesswire.com, please give your consent at the top of this page.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240201888552/en/
About Business Wire
Subscribe to releases from Business Wire
Subscribe to all the latest releases from Business Wire by registering your e-mail address below. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Latest releases from Business Wire
Usercentrics Acquires MCP Manager to Bring Consent and Trust to AI14.1.2026 11:15:00 CET | Press release
Extending Privacy‑Led Marketing from websites and apps into AI workflows, so businesses can scale AI with much-needed oversight, auditability, and control Usercentrics, the global leader in Privacy-Led Marketing solutions, announced today it has acquired MCP Manager, a next-generation governance platform for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), built by a team with deep expertise in AI infrastructure. The acquisition makes Usercentrics the first major global market leader in data privacy solutions to extend consent and data guardrails into AI-driven workflows. The combined platform will deliver a unified Privacy-Led Marketing Suite that manages consent, preferences, and data governance across websites, apps, internal systems, and consumer-facing AI agents. Because these agents increasingly shape personalization and customer engagement, extending consent into real-time, model-driven interactions applies the same rigor that exists at data collection. This keeps experiences transparent, trus
Blue Shift Report Highlights Systemic Vulnerabilities Caused by the Hidden Cost of AI14.1.2026 10:00:00 CET | Press release
Arthur D. Little’s Blue Shift institute has published its latest report, AI’s Hidden Dependencies. This in-depth report, involving more than 50 experts, explores AI’s resource dependencies and the consequent direct systemic vulnerabilities for businesses and lays out strategic actions in response. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260114966898/en/ Arthur D. Little’s Blue Shift Institute has published its latest report, AI’s Hidden Dependencies With AI’s adoption and usage expected to remain on its growth trajectory, so is its strain on resources. The report notably identifies three main areas of dependency: Environmental impacts, including emissions due to AI’s heavy energy usage and the manufacture of related hardware Energy supply, including increased electricity demand and strain on the grid Compute infrastructure, including supply chain choke points and dependencies on dominant providers As AI is now becomin
Klarna Expands Digital Bank Offer with Peer-to-Peer Payments14.1.2026 09:00:00 CET | Press release
Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, has launched instant peer-to-peer payments in 13 European countries, marking the next step in its evolution as a digital bank. The new feature enables Klarna customers to send money to friends and family, whether splitting bills or gifting cash, directly from the Klarna app: as simple as handing someone cash, with the protection of a regulated bank. This launch takes Klarna deeper into everyday banking, turning Klarna into a central hub for day-to-day spending and money management. It comes on the back of the Klarna Balance accounts and the rapid adoption of Klarna Card, with over 4 million sign-ups just four months after launch. Sebastian Siemiatkowski, co-founder and CEO of Klarna commented: “Customers are sick of the friction and fees of traditional banking, which is why millions signed up to Klarna Card within a few months of launch. With peer-to-peer payments we’re making it even easier to manage all of your payments
Northern Trust Secures Expanded Mandate with Swedish Pension Provider AMF Tjänstepension AB14.1.2026 09:00:00 CET | Press release
Providing Global Custody and Investment Operations Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) today announced that it has retained and expanded its mandate with AMF Tjänstepension AB (AMF), a leading Swedish pension provider. Under the renewed agreement, Northern Trust, which has serviced AMF for more than 20 years, will continue to serve as custodian for AMF’s global pension assets and add investment operations for trade services across AMF’s total portfolio, for both pension and fund company assets. AMF is one of Sweden’s leading pension companies, managing occupational pensions for millions of individuals. With a strong focus on delivering secure and sustainable retirement outcomes, AMF combines cost efficiency with long-term investment strategies to benefit its members. Petra Sjögerås, head of Nordic Region, Northern Trust said: “As a long-standing partner to institutions in the Nordic region, Northern Trust brings extensive experience and a solutions-oriented mindset to proactively support our
Notice Concerning Change of Representative Executive Officer14.1.2026 08:14:00 CET | Press release
H.U. Group Holdings, Inc. (the Company) today announced that it has resolved, at a meeting of the Board of Directors held on January 14, 2026, to change the Company’s Representative Executive Officer as described below. 1. Name and job titles of newly appointed Representative Executive Officer Name New title Current title Goki Ishikawa Representative Executive Officer, President and Group CEO Managing Executive Officer 2. Name and job titles of retiring Representative Executive Officer Name New title Current title Shigekazu Takeuchi Director and Executive Officer Director, Representative Executive Officer, Chairman, President and Group CEO 3. Reason for change In May 2025, toward realizing its Vision for 2035, the Company announced its Medium-Term Management Plan “H.U. 2030” (MMP) as well as its CEO succession plan including the timing for the selection of the next CEO. As the succession plan progressed, the Company has recognized that Mr. Goki Ishikawa is the best to lead the executio
In our pressroom you can read all our latest releases, find our press contacts, images, documents and other relevant information about us.
Visit our pressroom