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Sustainable Retail

Sustainability in retail & consumer packaged goods

The Future of Retail Sustainability

Covid-19 is the stress test no one was prepared for. While the pandemic continues to provoke disruption in the retail sector, it has also driven sustainability action, shining a light on new solutions and strategies to achieve financial, environmental and social stability.

From luxury apparel to fast fashion, to grocery stores and beauty and personal care brands, responsibility for evolving and advancing the retail sustainability agenda lies across the full value chain, with necessary changes that are complicated and multi-faceted. At Anthesis, we work with our clients to identify and implement opportunities to drive systemic change while building business value.

 

The enablers we see as the strongest ways to drive sustainability progress in retail business:

  • Technological advances in supply chain traceability, transparency and data collection
  • Engaging and supporting suppliers to take climate action
  • Industry collaboration to create solutions, drive sustainable product design and accelerate progress
  • Educating the consumer on the sustainability impacts of their buying and product use decisions

Retail Sustainability Consulting

Anthesis is dedicated to activating change throughout the whole consumer product ecosystem 

  • We work with retail and consumer product companies to define and implement sustainability strategies 
  • We work with suppliers to improve environmental and social performance 
  • We collaborate with industry bodies to drive collective action 
  • We support 7 of top 10 retailers in Fortune 500

Our global representation positions us to support global supply chains, programs and clients on a regional basis. We have offices in Manila, Shanghai and Hong Kong to provide on–the–ground support to manufacturing suppliers. Outside of our North American and European hubs our clients have included South African retailers, Mexican bakeries and Chinese resorts, to name a few. 

Our Retail Expertise

Retailers
Consumer Packaged Goods
Apparel & Textiles
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Over the last 18 months, Anthesis’ expert but human approach has seen our partnership grow across a multitude of areas of ESG. An absolute pleasure to work with, Anthesis have seamlessly integrated into our ways of working. Immediately grasping where we were in our ESG maturity, they have shown a genuine desire to help us move things forward through applying expertise and passion from across a vast array of subjects and sectors.

Richard Mason
Head of ESG, AO

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We were able to create a leading policy on a tight timeline, thanks to the great collaboration and leading expertise provided by Anthesis.

Beth Greenaway
Team Lead Circular & Sustainable Products, Zalando

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The supply chain report produced by Anthesis was a key element of the success of the initial public offering (IPO) of In The Style. The report ensured investor confidence in ITS and set out a clear roadmap to guide progress.

Liberum

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Our chemical strategy will be one of the most comprehensive in the U.S. retail industry, including all Target-owned and national brand products and operations, not just formulated products.


Former VP of Corporate Responsibility, Target

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J&J has been a proud member of Product Sustainability Round Table since 2007 and our membership has been a vital component of our product stewardship strategy. It helps us benchmark against other organisations, share best practices, and prepare for emerging trends and issues. The PSRT Leadership Framework has also supported J&J in our path towards more fully institutionalising sustainability across the organisation.

Al Iannuzzi
Senior Director Product Stewardship, J&J

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Anthesis has been instrumental in helping us quantify our carbon footprint and understand where our biggest opportunities lie over the years. This long-term support has allowed us to reach carbon neutrality and maintain our status as the UK’s most ethical water brand – an essential part of what Belu stands for.

Nolan Wright
Head of Operations, Belu Water

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Anthesis has been an important thought-partner for us. They’ve been so helpful in getting the vendors on board and engaged. We’ve really relied on their expertise and experience to guide us through this process.


Former Sr. Manager of Sustainable Innovation, Gap

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Tools to Support the Retail Sector

We build custom tools and leverage leading technology solutions to support our retail and consumer product clients.

While we are software agnostic, we are experts in deploying, using and training clients on the following software tools:

Cool Farm Tool – This software, used by McDonalds, Kellogg’s, Mars and Cargill, allows farmers to input field level data in order to provide carbon, water and biodiversity footprints for livestock and arable crops.

Footprinter – Footprinter supports clients in a number of ways; from sustainable product design assessments to operational level footprints. Our clients using the software include Reckitt Benckiser, Target and Pepsico.

Activator Academy – For smaller and/or younger clients, we have an online training platform to support sustainability journeys from the beginning, across a range of material topics

Supply Shift – This is a leading software tool for collecting data from supply chains, helping drive action on sustainability and ESG performance specifically.

CleanCO2 – a carbon management tool that allows companies and events to calculate, offset and reduce their carbon footprint. It accompanies users throughout the process of neutralizing their company’s activities and greenhouse gas emissions, helping them to achieve carbon neutrality by investing in projects to reduce emissions, such as energy efficiency, renewable energies, and carbon sinks.

Tennaxia – Digital platform for companies to collect and manage extra-financial data.

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The Retail Sustainability Journey

Our Services and approach

Anthesis provides agile analytics and research capabilities that deliver actionable, commercial foresight and insight for the retail sector. Our Retail Analytics service offering covers a wide array of service lines:

Strategy + Governance Services

Supply Chain + Operations Services 

Sustainable Products + Services  

Brand + Communications Services 

Anthesis provides evidence-based strategies, innovating, and tools to address challenges and unlock opportunities. Our Retail Solutions service offering covers a wide array of service lines:

Strategy + Governance Services 

Supply Chain + Operations Services

Sustainable Products + Services  

Brand + Communications Services 

Anthesis provides pragmatic support and services to deliver on-the-ground impact, efficiently and effectively. Our Retail Implementation service offering covers a wide array of service lines:

Strategy + Governance Services 

Supply Chain + Operations Services 

Sustainable Products + Services  

Brand + Communications Services 

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Case Studies

Group Purpose Development | Food and Beverage Client

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Anthesis supported the client’s senior leaders with a process of purpose discovery and articulation rooted in the long history of the business, and the future needs the company will serve.

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Analysing Basin Data to Inform Apparel Facility Water Targets

Case Study

Anthesis worked with Pacific Institute to develop a holistic picture of the Noyyal-Bhavani River Basin in South India where three global apparel companies have facilities and operations in order to drive action informed by catchment context.

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Supporting Target’s Chemical Policy Implementation for Formulated Products

Case Study

Anthesis supported Target in the implementation of its chemical policy goals for formulated products.

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Scope 3 Science Based Targets with Target Corporation

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Anthesis helped Target with its Scope 3 science-based target setting, tracking, supplier engagement and implementation.

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Meet our Retail Experts

Honor Cowen
Director and Retail & Consumer Products Lead, North America

Honor leads the Retail & Consumer Products sector in North America. She has over a decade of working in this space, both in the UK and in the US.  

She currently leads our biggest retail clients on programs covering all applicable topics from plastics to food waste quantification to setting Science-Based Targets.  

She has been quoted in CNBC, Huffington Post and Vogue talking about issues like waste in the supply chain, leather alternatives and being environmentally friendly at Christmas! 

Honor holds an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. 
Adrià Gelabert
Clients & Markets Director, Spain

Adrià is currently in charge of the commercial strategy, customer relationship and opening of new markets of Anthesis in Spain, as well as part of the Lavola executive committee. Previously, between 2014 and 2017 he was based in Bogotá, Colombia where he was responsible for the opening and management of the office of Anthesis (then […]
Simon Davis
Sustainable Agriculture Lead

Simon leads Sustainable Agriculture at Anthesis where he works with major brands to embed technology enabled initiatives that support improvements in agricultural productivity, environmental stewardship and societal value. His experience spans across global retail, agri-service and agri-tech. At Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd, he delivered value across a variety of product quality, sourcing and sustainable agriculture roles, […]
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