Food & Beverage introduction
We help F&B suppliers, factories and brands understand what is demanded from them, deliver changes to achieve compliance, and to strengthen their wider sustainability strategy to open to new opportunities. We use our FMCG and international food sales and marketing background to help F&B brands make sense of where they stand and what to do. We help them understand what’s an asset and what’s an issue, organise for sustainability strength and quality in operations, procurement, and supply chain, and use our capabilities to make them meet customer demand.
Food manufacturers know that sustainability demands are evolving fast and becoming more complex. It is now a deciding factor for retailers and buyers. Large customers are exposed to more strict regulation like CSRD and CSDDD, which they pass on to you. This is occurring with European supermarkets placing high requirements on their suppliers to meet their own requirements. They are asking for evidence of your emissions, proof of the actions you are taking, and your sustainability plans.
Common industry challenges
Customer and/or regulatory compliance
Retailers, chains and supermarkets face strict and growing requirements under CSRD, EU Green Deal, national climate and transport laws, and extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging and waste, and risk consequences if not met. In turn they are demanding from their manufacturers and suppliers to set and commit.
Consumer demands
Consumers increasingly expect brands to be transparent, genuinely sustainable, and affordable. Companies that fall short risk losing market share, facing backlash, and eroding trust, all of which undermine brand equity and directly impact revenue and profitability.
Procurement & Supply Chain
As organizations face increasingly complex challenges across products, suppliers, supply chains, and internal operations, minimizing risks and activating the right levers for sustainable growth has become essential.
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Sustainability is part of any strong business strategy. Organisations have found out that positioning their brands and business and using tools for impact through strategic means such as B Corp, positive impact, and adding it to their marketing, can provide a strong ROI. Businesses who don’t act and tell their story well, lose important customers and consumers to the competition.
How we solve these challenges
- 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 become EUDR compliant, annual compliance updates, preparing for and passing audits, and reporting to relevant organisations on your behalf.
- 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.
- Decarbonisation and Net Zero We gather data and performing a carbon footprint analysis and find optimal ways to set decarbonise and manage emissions.
- 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.
- Resource Efficiency We identify energy inefficiencies and improvement opportunities and implement measures which lower emissions and costs.
- Credits and Certificates we create an optimal renewable certificates strategy and carbon credit strategy, including transport, and procure on your behalf.
- 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.