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Athletic Brewing is revolutionizing how modern adults drink by crafting game-changing NA brews that can be consumed anytime and anywhere. Launched in 2018, Athletic has won over 100 taste awards and is America's largest dedicated NA brewer. Athletic operates custom breweries in Connecticut and California and was recently named by Fast Company as one of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies. Athletic has twice been named to TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies list, donates up to $2 million annually to restoring outdoor spaces via its Two For The Trails program, and is a Certified B Corporation™.
Milford, Connecticut
Our mission is to positively impact our customers’ health, fitness, and happiness while greatly impacting our communities and environment for the better. The product itself has personally improved many team members’ health and lives. The programs we offer around the community get team members actively involved in helping their local communities, and we have one of the largest environmental sustainability grants in the country. With company growth being in the top 5% of the INC 5000 the past two years, teammates are optimistic about future of the company and their role in shaping that.
Our team members were involved in the process of building out our company values. The founders and CHRO embarked to create five core company values and had decided upon those values independently. We then surveyed the team members and asked them to pick two single words that they felt best fit Athletic Brewing Companies values. The top five values were identical to the five values that were selected by senior leaders. Every year we do this exercise in the employee engagement survey to confirm drift is not occurring.
Our CEO has an open door policy and has set a low bar for team members to bring ideas into the company. Bill often makes time to make himself present at our manufacturing facilities and engages with team members regardless of level. A humility and desire to learn from all of leadership is an example for problem solving and growth exhibited throughout the company. The absence of egos often separates the people from the problems we are trying to mutually solve.
We hold annual listening meetings as a senior leadership team. The CEO, CPO, and CHRO make themselves available to hear from any team member regarding any topic in a group setting. The co-founders also hold idea hour once a quarter where team members can pitch ideas. Finally, we hold annual employee engagement surveys and conduct pulse surveys throughout the year.
We collaborate throughout the company by providing our team members with opportunities to work cross-functionally through our career experience programs and reward travel programs. It’s a merit-based and problem solving atmosphere that naturally encourages talented teammates to collaborate with their peers across channels in the company to solve mutual goals.
We provide our team members with the opportunity for reward travel. Team members are able to get the opportunity to travel the world ad attend a sampling event. Team members from different parts of the organization are paired together to create community. Athletic Brewing also offers 2% for the Team where they are from day one entered into a 2% company ownership pool and are awarded additional shares in the pool every service year.
athletic is an exciting and energetic place building something very special. teammates will be surrounded with many people learning and growing every year. every week has a bigger feeling than just entering the workplace - it’s working on something bigger than ourselves, and we hear that every day from our community through hundreds of emails from customers. it’s a great culture & collaborative spirit, always improving and working towards innovative results.
Fulfillment Associate, Milford CT
