Food & Beverage

From Coca-Cola to Nestle, Starbucks and Unilever, SustainAbility has worked with a variety of businesses across the Food & Beverage supply chain to help address critical sustainability issues and develop innovative solutions around the risks and opportunities associated with sustainable development.

The Food & Beverage sector is facing rapidly evolving competitive pressures and business opportunities around a host of issues ranging from climate change to public health to consumer transparency. Using natural resources sustainably in agriculture, manufacturing, distribution, retail and disposal; promoting fair producer livelihoods; developing nutritious product portfolios and marketing them responsibly are just some of the issues that have become critical business issues for the sector – not only in terms of corporate responsibility to society, but also to maintain competitive advantage in the face of changing supply bases and consumer demands.

SustainAbility’s Food & Beverage sector team works with clients to understand and translate these risks and opportunities into strategy, brand propositions and new markets.

• We help companies better understand, develop strategies, and innovate in response to stakeholder and consumer expectations in today’s and tomorrow’s markets - including those in emerging economies as well as in Europe and the US. [See Coca-Cola Case Study.]
  
  
• We help companies understand the environmental and social impacts of their products, how these affect consumer perception and trust, and how to embed these considerations in branding. [See Brown-Forman Case Study.]
  
  
• We help develop environmentally and socially sustainable supply chains by identifying key issues and best practices and unravelling the complexity of industry standards and multi-stakeholder initiatives.
  
  
• We work with companies to develop approaches to accountability and transparency through stakeholder engagement, reporting and product labelling and communications. [See Starbucks Case Study.]

Selected Clients:

For further information please contact:

Patrin Watanatada
watanatada@sustainability.com

Jennifer Biringer
biringer@sustainability.com