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Implementing an All-Encompassing Sustainability Strategy – The Key Challenges Christopher Shanahan Food Industry Analyst Chemicals, Materials and Food San Antonio, Texas USA June 4th, 2009

Agenda • What is Sustainability? • The Current Economy and the State of Sustainability • Review of Sustainability Business Strategies Currently Adopted by Companies • Sustainability Strategies Assessment and Recommendations

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What is Sustainability? Objective  Generation, Evaluation and Implementation of an Effective Sustainability Strategy •

Sustain Profitability Margin



Sustain Competitive Advantage



Sustain Revenue Growth



Adopt strategies that will minimize/maximize the production of negative/positive externalities produced by the company over time



Minimize wasted inputs and unusable byproduct



Avoid/minimize use of non-renewable resources •

Resources that have a virtually fixed amount (petroleum)



Resources that have a virtually fixed amount  harvest rate > renewal rate (corn ethanol)

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What is Sustainability? Optimization of the bottom lines over time

Today’s Objective Change in Bottom Line

Change in Bottom Line

Yesterday’s Objective

e Economic Bottom Lin

ic nom o c E

Line m o t Bot

Social Re

y sponsibilit

Time Social Responsibility Envi

ss Awarene l a t n e m Environ

Time ronm

enta

l Aw aren ess

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What is Sustainability? Recognizing the interaction of the economic, social and environmental bottom lines over Economic Bottom Line = Maximize Profit +

∆ Yesterday < ∆ Today -

-

-

+ Environmental Awareness = Minimize Waste and/or Negative Impacts on the Environment

+ Social Responsibility = Maximize/Minimize Positive/Negative Impact on the Community 5

The Current Economy State Reviewing the Recession Genesis and its Impact on Sustainability Policy

Government’s Green Response

Private Sector Defaults

Lack of Trust in Financial Institutions

Sub-Prime Mortgages

Financial Institutions Losses

Lack of Capital for Companies

Tightening Credit Markets

$

Suspension of Interbank Lending

Banks Slow Lending Down

$

$

Lack of Lending for Small Business

Slower Growth

Consumers Reduce Spending

$

$ Economy Slows Down/Contracts

• Cap and Trade • $100bn toward more efficient private homes and government buildings • Development of wind and solar power • Increased spending money on public transport

Lack of Retail Credit

• More fuel-efficiency under GM bankruptcy plan • 30% increase in fuel efficiency standards

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The Current Economy and the State of Sustainability What will happen in 2009…we have a better idea in 2010/11

Likely Independent of Economic Environment

?

Note the flat growth in the number of companies choosing to report sustainability performance during the 2001/02 recession

Likely Not Independent of Economic Environment

Source: Global Reporting Initiative

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The State of Food Safety Sustainability The Changing Face of Food Safety in the United States

Food Safety Standard Confusion and Redundancies

Heightened Awareness of Food Security

Changing Face of Food Safety in the US

Mistrust of 3rd Party Auditors

Growing Power of Retailers

Source: Frost & Sullivan

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Sustainability Strategies Currently Adopted by Companies Using The Warm Glow to Drive Demand

• Some consumers experience ‘a warm-glow’ when they buy a product with an icon that reports social responsibility or increased environmental awareness. • Thus, some people are willing to pay a greater premium for a given socially-beneficial, firmprovided, service • Consumers are motivated by the desire to receive praise and social acceptance, or avoid ridicule • Thus just like any other product, consumer motivation is driven by both altruistic and egotistic factors.

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Sustainability Strategies Currently Adopted by Companies Effectively Communicating Your Sustainability Practices Involves the Entire Supply Chain Without a clear industry icon… Finished Good Manufacturer

Distributors and Retailers

Final Consumers

We Are Still Green

Are We Green?

Is this Green?

Raw Material Supplier

Finished Good Manufacturer

Distributors and Retailers

Final Consumers

We Are Still Green

We Are Still Green

We Are Still Green

We Are Still Green

Raw Material Supplier

We Are Still Green

With a clear industry icon…

3rd Party Verified

Product Flow

Source: Frost & Sullivan

$ and Feedback Flow 10

The Current Economy and the State of Sustainability When Adopting Sustainability Strategies Can Lead to Unintended Economic Consequences • The bioethanol industry was believed to have been a motivating factor in increased corn production and increases in grain product prices in late 2007 through 2008 • Increased speculation that farmers had a new incentive to switch away from other crops such as wheat and soybeans  Industry experts believe that speculative activity rooted in is accounting for approximately 20 to 30 percent of price growth during this period

• Summary: In an effort to move away from resources that have a virtually fixed amount of global inventories such as petroleum, consumption moved to renewable sources at such a fast rate that the resource effectively became a nonrenewable resource in the short run, as shown in the growth in market prices.

ZeaChem: the “Food vs. Fuel” Debate is Null and Void with New Sustainable Technology Factory Yield 1st Generation (Corn Ethanol) 3rd Generation Cellulosic – ZeaChem Process

End User Benefits

2.7 Gallons per Bushel

5,670 Mile/ac/yr

135 Gallons per Bone Dry Tons

28,350 Mile/ac/yr Source: ZeaChem 11

Sustainability Strategies Currently Adopted by Companies The Objective is to Offer a Product that Consumers will Buy No Matter What…



Invest in marketing strategies that focuses on your core product offering



Exploit opportunities from consumer feedback



Have a complete 360 degree perspective on your market’s external environment



Establish partnerships with other suppliers



Adopt proactive product and service differentiation strategies  understand the consumer’s motivation for buying your product

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Sustainability Strategies Assessment and Recommendations Define the Problem and System

Identify Strategic Options

v Identify End Markets and Potential

Identify Market Dynamics and Constraints

Non-renewable Inputs Renewable Inputs Non-

Construct and Run the Model

Select Optimal Plan of Action based on Model Results

Complex Business Universe

Social Social Benefits Benefits

Sustainable Production System

Implement Plan of Action

SUPPLY SUPPLY == Output Output

The more Green we are the more Green we make

Market Demand

Waste Waste

Initial Initial Investments Investments

+

Production Production Costs Costs

+

Marketing Marketing and and Logistic Logistic Costs Costs

<

Total Total Revenues Revenues

Profit Source: Frost & Sullivan

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Next Steps

Request a proposal for a Growth Partnership Service to support you and your team to accelerate the growth of your company. ([email protected]) 1-877-GoFrost (1-877-463-7678) Join us at our annual Growth, Innovation, and Leadership 2009: A Frost & Sullivan Global Congress on Corporate Growth, September 13-16 2009, Hyatt Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Gainey Ranch, Scottsdale, AZ (www.gil-global.com) Register for the next Chairman’s Series on Growth: Growth Acceleration System: Leveraging the Growth Diagnostic Blueprint (July 9th) (http://www.frost.com/growth) Register for Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Opportunity Newsletter and keep abreast of innovative growth opportunities (www.frost.com/news)

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Your Feedback is Important to Us What would you like to see from Frost & Sullivan? •Growth

Forecasts?

•Competitive

•Emerging

•Strategic

Structure?

Trends?

Recommendations?

•Other?

Please inform us by taking our survey. Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Consulting can assist with your growth strategies 15

For Additional Information

Steve Lee Strategic Account Manager Chemicals, Materials and Food, Asia Pacific (65) 6890 0914 [email protected]

Melinda Meyer Director of Sales, NA - Chemicals, Materials & Food (210) 348-1000 [email protected]

Johanna Haynes Corporate Communications Chemicals, Materials & Food (210) 247-3870 [email protected]

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