A.G. Barr sustainability score: 57/100
Better than 96% of Food & Beverage (non-meat)
Leading practice starts at 60. The highest score on SINK is 71.
A.G. Barr is a Scottish soft drinks company whose brands include IRN-BRU, Boost, Barr, Rubicon, Rio and Frobishers.
More about A.G. Barr
It reported £437.3 million of revenue for the 53 weeks to 31 January 2026, with about 991 employees.
Founded 1904Head office Cumbernauld, United KingdomStaff ~991 (2026)Revenue £437.3 million revenue (53 weeks ended 31 Jan 2026)Website ↗
A.G. Barr has Carbon Trust-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions covering every relevant category, SBTi-verified targets including net zero by FY2050, and REGO-backed electricity at its UK production sites. But its Scope 3 is still above its 2020/21 level, it has cut back its recycled plastic commitments, and Surfers Against Sewage's 2025 brand audit named it among the 'Dirty Dozen' for branded litter.
A.G. Barr scores 57/100 (Making progress) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified November 2026.
That places A.G. Barr joint 34th of 1,070 companies scored, and joint 2nd of 55 in Food & Beverage (non-meat).
What is A.G. Barr doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Carbon Footprint: Supply Chain (8/10, 8/10). Weakest on Emissions Trajectory and Nature & Biodiversity Impact (5/10, 5/10).
Where A.G. Barr lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow a year-on-year fall in its total emissions.
- Its effect on natureMeasure its effect on nature and have it independently verified.
- How it uses materials and handles wasteReport measurable waste or recycling targets publicly.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations8/10No verified figures published with their method and a falling trend.
- Emissions from its supply chain8/10Its Scope 3 emissions aren't fully verified or falling year on year.
- Whether its emissions are falling5/10No evidence of a year-on-year fall in its total emissions.
- How clean its energy is6/10Less than 90% of its energy shown to be renewable.
- Its effect on nature5/10Its effect on nature isn't measured or independently verified.
- How it uses materials and handles waste5/10No measurable waste or recycling targets reported publicly.
- Its effect on water5/10No measured water footprint with reduction targets.
- Its climate targets8/10No validated long-term net zero target.
- How openly it reports8/10No mission-locked structure, such as B Corp certification.
- Its record on controversies7/10Points deducted for controversies or its business model. The finding is under question 10.
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How is A.G. Barr's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleWhat evidence is A.G. Barr's score based on?
10 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
20% of them were published by A.G. Barr itself; the rest come from independent sources.
“Fugitive 5,208.85 4,692.59”
“Total Scope 3 173,533 160,107 193,733 219,959”
“Tesco PLC Suntory Holdings Haribo GmbH & Co. KG AG Barr plc”
“Vattenfall will supply AG Barr with 22GWh per year from Vattenfall's wind farms in the UK”
“AG Barr also confirmed that IRN-BRU and Rubicon will be in 100% recycled plastic bottles by Spring 2022, with all brands following by 2023.”
“AG Barr has unveiled plans to roll out out 100% recycled plastic (rPET) packs across all 500ml IRN-BRU and Rubicon products.”
“Scotland's DRS delivers for the environment, society and industry and to delay it now would be to the detriment of all those things”
“warned against delaying the introduction of the scheme”
“We have to change all our packaging.”
“We now have approved near and long-term science-based emissions reduction targets with the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi)”
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How does A.G. Barr compare with other food & beverage (non-meat) companies?
Where A.G. Barr sits among food & beverage (non-meat) peers.
Among the 55 major food & beverage (non-meat) brands we've scored, A.G. Barr is tied =2nd of 55, with 1 other.
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