AMBEV

For devising creative pandemic aid and initiatives with materials it already uses

Putting $22 million of funds to use, the Brazilian beverage giant proved its ingenuity in a hurry as it sped to manufacture 284,000 liters of hand sanitizer using ethanol from its breweries, and 3 million face shields, made from a polymer it uses for bottling its Guaraná Antarctica soda. In the rural areas of Northeast Brazil, its regional beer brands and partners that make beer from cassava donated 20 tons of tapioca gum for food and soap from cassava starch to poor families.