ESG Solutions

Tailored support from baseline to breakthrough

Valpak’s ESG Solutions service helps businesses navigate increasing ESG expectations from large customers and investors.

Our approach begins with a Position Audit to assess current practices, identify legislative gaps, and establish a clear baseline. This ensures that ESG activities are built on a realistic understanding of the business, avoiding duplication of effort and aligning priorities with customer expectations.

From there, we translate complex sustainability frameworks into a practical, actionable strategy with defined objectives and credible reporting that enhances supply-chain transparency and competitiveness. With in-house expertise spanning ISO standards and a proven track record (including helping shape Reconomy’s sustainability reporting), Valpak offers practical, industry-aligned support grounded in experience.

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Respond to investor and customer expectations with confidence

In today’s business environment, ESG isn’t a ‘nice-to-have’, it’s a strategic imperative. Companies implement ESG for a variety of reasons:

  • Risk management: Anticipate and mitigate regulatory, customer, brand and climate-based risks.
  • Licensing and contract access: Be positioned to become or remain a key supplier to major customers.
  • Reputation and brand value: Enhance trust, engage stakeholders and protect brand integrity.
  • Regulatory compliance: Ensure your business is compliant with legislation; proactive strategies help you stay ahead.
  • Operational efficiency: Identify opportunities to reduce energy, water and waste through data-driven performance tracking.
  • Talent attraction and retention: Appeal to values-driven employees by embedding sustainability, diversity and wellbeing into business culture.
  • Access to new partnerships and funding: Strengthen eligibility for public sector contracts and ESG-focused investment by aligning with recognised frameworks.

With these compelling reasons, ESG becomes not just about doing the right thing, but about doing the smart thing.

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Built on experience, backed by data

  • Comprehensive ESG rationale
    We go beyond the basics with a broader, business-aligned case for ESG.
  • In-depth audit deliverable
    Detailed, documented assessments that clearly define scope, gaps, and baselines.
  • Regulatory expertise
    Decades of experience navigating complex schemes like Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Streamlined Energy & Carbon Reporting (SECR), and Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme (ESOS).
  • Practical consultancy support
    Bespoke, hands-on service with implementation, not just advice.
  • End-to-end ESG services
    Full life cycle coverage, delivered by specialist teams.
  • Trusted market leader
    Supporting 2,000+ businesses as the UK’s largest scheme of its kind.
  • Proven sustainability credentials
    EcoVadis Platinum rated — top 1% globally.
  • Data-led and value-chain connected
    Actionable insights powered by analytics and supply chain integration.

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Adaptable support for organisations at any stage of ESG maturity

Whether you are a growing enterprise, a mid-sized business or a large enterprise, Valpak’s ESG Solutions service is designed to scale with your ambition and maturity. If you:

  • Face supply-chain or investor ESG demands
  • Need to align internal practices with external expectations
  • Seek better transparency, data and reporting credibility
  • Want to integrate ESG with operational performance (energy, waste, packaging)
  • Wish to future-proof your business against regulatory change

…then our service is for you.

Our approach: From position audit to strategy to results

Our ESG Solutions follow a proven, structured process that takes your business from understanding its current position to implementing, monitoring, and continuously improving an effective ESG strategy.

Here’s how we do it:

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Already have an ESG strategy? We can strengthen and optimise it

If your organisation has already begun its ESG journey, or you have an ESG strategy in place, Valpak can help you accelerate progress with our independent ESG Supply Chain Peer Review. This service is designed to strengthen existing ESG programmes, enhance supply chain transparency, and ensure your business remains competitive, compliant, and aligned with industry best practice.

Our ESG peer review includes:

  • ESG competitor analysis – Benchmark your ESG commitments, targets, and disclosures against sector peers to identify strengths, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
  • Supply chain ESG performance review – Assess supplier data quality, identify ESG gaps, and evaluate risk across your value chain to improve transparency and reporting accuracy.
  • ESG legislative readiness assessment – Review upcoming environmental and sustainability regulations that could impact your operations or supply chain, helping you stay ahead of compliance requirements.
  • Targeted improvement recommendations – Receive clear, actionable insights to enhance, refine, and future-proof your existing ESG strategy.

By combining competitor benchmarking, supply chain analysis, and expert-led legislative review, this service helps organisations enhance their ESG performance, demonstrate leadership, and confidently communicate progress to customers, investors, and stakeholders.

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Make an enquiry

Navigating ESG doesn’t have to be overwhelming. With our structured, hands-on, specialist approach you can move confidently from baseline to strategy to measurable results. Contact us to schedule your Position Audit and take the first step towards a tailored ESG strategy that delivers impact.