Consumer Goods introduction
Consumer brands and manufacturers know that sustainability demands are evolving fast: It is a deciding factor for retailers, consumers and governments. Stricter EU regulations are setting higher standards for large companies on what’s required and what needs to be demonstrated to supply the market. Your customer will have to comply with these regulations. As a result, businesses like yours will be asked to report on topics including emissions, product circularity, supply chain transparency and improvement plans.
Consumers expect transparency on procurement and impact to understand, manage and properly communicate their own sustainability compliance. We help brands understand, navigate and act on all sustainability and ESG requirements.
Common industry challenges
Customer and Regulatory Compliance
Retailers, supermarkets and stores face strict and growing requirements under law. Examples are CSRD, EU Green Deal, national climate and transport laws, and extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging and waste, and risk consequences if not met.
Therefore, they demand from their private label manufacturers and suppliers to set and commit to targets, and to come with executable roadmaps to become compliant.
Consumer demands
Consumers demand brands to be transparent and truly sustainable, while also demanding that the product meets other expectations. Brands risk losing market share, face consumer backlash and risk mistrust leading to eroded sales and brand equity if not managed properly.
Procurement & Supply Chain
As organisations face increasingly complex and demanding challenges across products, suppliers, supply chains, and their own operations, it becomes essential to minimise risks and activate the right levers to meet demands and enable sustainable growth.
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Sustainability is part of any strong business strategy. Organizations are increasingly realizing that strategically positioning their brand around impact through frameworks like B Corp certification, positive impact initiatives, and integrating these into marketing, can deliver a strong return on investment. Businesses who don’t act and tell their story well, lose important customers and consumers to the competition.
How we solve these challenges
Some examples of Solutions we provide for Consumer Goods Clients:
- Customer and Regulatory Compliance We organise your sustainability compliance for you, including such topics as: what your customers and/or governments demand from you, such as carbon data, emission reduction, how to get ready for EUDR in advance, annual compliance updates, preparing for and passing audits, and reporting to relevant organisations on your behalf.
- Decarbonisation and Net Zero We gather data and performing a carbon footprint analysis and find optimal ways to set decarbonise and manage emissions.
- Supply Chain and Material Procurement We help you make sure your procurement is compliant to customer and regulatory requirements, and that what’s needed in your supply chain is clear and actionable.
- Your SBTi Trajectory You commit through SBTi, we perform a carbon footprint analysis, we develop targets and submit for validation, we set and find optimal ways to set decarbonise and manage emissions, we report on progress.
- Your B Corp Journey We organise your B Corp Journey from A to Recertification.
- Sustainability Claims We ensure reported sustainability metrics are correct, we test claims against recognized frameworks, and we check if it is compliant.
- Positive impact We assess how your products not only can lower emissions and impact but have positive impact in other ways.
- Circular Packaging We support the development of circular packaging and waste strategies by assessing current material flows, identifying reduction opportunities, and integrating recyclable or reusable alternatives.
- Environmental Management System We create an enforceable policy document which helps organisations structurally identify, monitor and reduce their impact.
- Risk Management We help organisations understand and mitigate risk by carrying out structured assessments, mapping evolving climate and regulatory risk, environmental issues, and offer practical measures to address threats to your organisation and supply chain.
- Brand Development We help consumer brands create sustainable brands with proper messaging and positioning to add to their brand architecture and win market share.