CASE STUDIES
One stop shop for food and beverage ingredients
Exploring how to innovate to stay competitive
A new sustainable era of personal care products
From coffee chain waste to the plant based transition
OUR SERVICES: HOW DO WE ENABLE SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
SUSTAINABILITY SERVICES
IS YOUR COMPANY INTRINSICALLY SUSTAINABLE? DOES YOUR COMPANY WANT TO BECAME SUSTAINABLE?
We are sustainability managers on demand offering fractional sustainability services to help businesses become sustainable or to prove their sustainability claims.
We adopt a step by step approach to help companies create their strategies and communicate their impact.
The step-by-step journey:
- Step 1: Evaluate current activities and define scope for improvement.
- Step 2: Engage stakeholders and identify key sustainability topics.
- Step 3: Align stakeholders on material issues and develop impact growth strategy.
- Step 4: Measure impact and identify areas for improvement.
- Step 5: Finalise roadmap, report impact, and enhance communication efforts.
We support a range of certifications and frameworks to help report and communicate companies’ sustainability standards.
Examples:
- Bcorp – Bcorp is a consumer facing certification that covers many ESG topics. We are training as certified BLeaders consultants to companies in their BCorp journeys.
- ESRS – ESRSs are the new EU mandatory reporting standards, under CSRD, for certain companies in the EU. Guidance on how SMEs can use these standards exist.
- GRI – Global reporting system. The new ESRS for the EU have been developed in close alignment with GRI.
- Ecovadis – The most used business sustainability rating for investors.
- Other – There are a number of other sustainability reporting standards and certifications. but they do often have a narrower scope. e.g. CDP, Rainforest Alliance, SBTi, GHG Protocol … .etc.
We support a number of analyses and plans that can help you decarbonise and reduce your impact.
Examples:
- CO2 footprint or Life-Cycle Assessments (LCAs) analyses for food and beverage ingredients, customised to your needs. Impact reports aligned with ISO and other relevant standards, including the goal and scope of the work, LCI analysis, methodology, data analysis, graphical representation of GHG emissions and more impact indicators.
- Comparative analysis: Against alternatives or previous product versions to provide clear insights into your environmental performance and facilitate effective communication.
- Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs): verified documents providing standardised information on a product’s environmental impacts throughout its life cycle.
- Decarbonisation and Netzero plans: to reduce and offset the impact.
- Eco-Design guidance: to design products with lower environmental footprints based on LCA findings.
Identify the key packaging strategies and suppliers that can help you create circular products and packaging portfolios to meet circularity targets.
BRAND GROWTH SERVICES
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR WAYS TO FASTEN YOUR GROWTH AND BUILD STRONGER DIFFERENTIATION?
Once businesses have proved their sustainability, we support them in their brand growth to become a real sustainable alternative in the market.
- Develop a marketing plan that creates awareness of the sustainability initiatives of the company, and increases sales.
- Bring to life a strong communication plan defining the brand positioning & Unique Selling Proposition (USP) and supported by campaigns that resonate with consumers.
- Provide directions on growth hacking experiments to keep improving the performance of the campaigns.
- Analyse the market, policy, competition best practises and consumers insights for existing and potential new markets for the company.
- Run qualitative and quantitative consumer research, with traditional or growth hacking methodologies.
Identifying ways to optimise or expand the portfolio while penetrating or entering new markets.
- Product & Pack: optimising or creating new products or packaging strategies.
- Tech: monetising from data services (use cases).
