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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Key frameworks and reporting standards for a robust ESG strategy
The following frameworks are essential building blocks for developing a robust ESG strategy because they provide standards, methodologies, and disclosure requirements that ensure transparency, credibility, and alignment with global best practices.
GRI
offers a comprehensive approach to reporting on environmental, social, and governance impacts, helping companies communicate their broader sustainability performance to stakeholders.
SBTi
ensures climate targets are science-based and aligned with the Paris Agreement, making decarbonisation plans credible.
CSRD
mandates detailed ESG disclosures for companies operating in the EU, driving consistency and accountability through regulated reporting.
CDP
enables organisations to disclose and benchmark environmental data, supporting investor confidence and risk management.
ISSB
sets a global baseline for sustainability-related financial disclosures, focusing on materiality for investors.
UK SRS
adapts ISSB standards for UK companies, ensuring alignment with international norms while meeting domestic regulatory expectations.
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Find out moreFAQs
ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. It is a framework used to assess how a business manages sustainability-related risks, opportunities, and its broader impact on society and the environment.
ESG drives regulatory compliance, improved access to finance, enhanced brand reputation, employee retention, and long-term business resilience.
Relevant regulations may include Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR), Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Modern Slavery Act Statement, Gender Pay Gap Reporting, and the UK Corporate Governance Code.
Not legally, but expectations from customers, investors, and supply chains mean that even SMEs benefit from having an ESG approach.
Key steps include understanding regulations, conducting a materiality assessment, reviewing baseline data, setting KPIs, and creating an implementation roadmap.
A process used to identify which ESG issues matter most to your business and stakeholders, ensuring focus on key priorities.
A standard materiality assessment identifies ESG issues that affect the business, while double materiality also considers the business’s impact on society and the planet.
Implementation usually takes 6–18 months depending on company size, data availability, and scope of goals.
No. ESG also includes waste and water management, wellbeing, diversity, ethics, governance, and community impact.
Costs may include advisory support, data systems, certifications, training, and reporting tools—but savings and efficiencies often offset expenses.
Energy use, emissions, waste, water, employee wellbeing, H&S, supply chain audits, and governance metrics.
Scope 1: Direct emissions. Scope 2: Indirect emissions from energy. Scope 3: All other value chain emissions.
Not always legally required but increasingly expected by customers, banks, and procurement frameworks.
Most businesses report annually, though some track KPIs quarterly.
Typically senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and a dedicated ESG or sustainability lead.
Through annual reporting, KPIs, third-party assurance, certifications, and transparent communication.
Risks include loss of customers, reduced access to finance, non-compliance, reputational damage, and higher costs.
Expectations for responsible practices influence loyalty, recruitment, and retention.
Yes—through efficiencies, investor confidence, lower risks, and long-term value creation.
Not mandatory but strengthens credibility and trust.
On the company website, in annual reports, sustainability reports, and internal communication platforms.
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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.