2. Contents
▶ Who We Are
▶ What We Do
▶ What Makes Us Different
▶ Our Approach
▶ How We Can Help
▶ Contact Details
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3. Who We Are
▶ Refreshe is an environmental strategy consultancy
▶ We combine the specialist skills of environmental consultants with business and financial expertise
▶ We work with our clients to enhance corporate sustainability by:
─ Analysing
─ reporting on; and
─ developing strategies to reduce
their environmental and social impact
▶ We believe that corporate sustainability presents enormous opportunities for business
▶ Our aim is to deliver high quality analysis that allows our clients to identify and take advantage of these
opportunities
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4. What We Do
Strategy Stakeholders Footprint
▶ Develop Environmental Strategies ▶ Identify key internal and external ▶ Quantify environmental footprint
stakeholders
▶ Incorporate environmental ▶ Assess direct and indirect footprint
performance into Corporate Strategy ▶ Assess their objectives and
▶ Devise strategies to reduce the
understand their needs
▶ Integrate into all aspects of the project organisation’s footprint
or organisation ▶ Guide stakeholder interventions to
ensure success
▶ Advise on regulatory requirements
Reporting Risk analysis Reduction
▶ Sustainability reporting ▶ Identify key areas of risk ▶ Identify reduction strategies
▶ Establish systems to monitor ongoing ▶ Risk reduction strategies ▶ Potential cost savings
performance
▶ Ongoing monitoring of risks ▶ Efficiency improvements
▶ Ongoing monitoring
Benchmarking Ratings Education
▶ Benchmarking against: ▶ Comparison of the different ▶ Employee and supplier education
sustainability ratings programmes
─ Peers (domestic and
international peers) ▶ Advice on which matter, which have ▶ Advice and strategies relating to
the highest profile required behavioural change
─ International best practice
▶ Strategies to improve ratings ▶ Stakeholder workshops
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5. What Makes Us Different
We Combine The Specialist Skills Of Environmental Consultants With Business And Financial Expertise
▶ Corporate sustainability is becoming an integral part of
day to day business for many organisations
▶ In our experience, many environmental and sustainability
specialists lack business and financial expertise
▶ Consequently, corporate sustainability strategies have
often been developed quite independently of the
organisation’s strategic and business objectives Corporate
▶ Corporate sustainability will only be truly effective when it Strategy
is aligned with the organisation’s corporate strategy and
business objectives
▶ At Refreshe, the corporate sustainability initiatives that we Corporate
develop for our clients bring together their: Sustainability
strategy
− corporate strategy Business
− business needs and objectives; and
needs and Sustainability
objectives objectives
− sustainability objectives
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6. What Makes Us Different
We Believe That Corporate Sustainability Presents Enormous Opportunities For Business
▶ We believe that corporate sustainability presents
enormous opportunities for business Potential Opportunities
Tangible Intangible
▶ Potential opportunities exist for companies of all sizes
and across all sectors, including:
Efficiency Brand
─ Tangible benefits such as increased Efficiency and
creating new Markets
Cost reduction Enhanced
Increased reputation
─ Intangible benefits such as Brand enhancement efficiency
and increased Competitiveness
▶ We help our clients to identify, and make the most of the
opportunities:
Markets Competitiveness
− to improve corporate sustainability
New products Point of
− created by improving their performance on
and services differentiation
corporate sustainability issues Access to new Competitive
customers edge
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7. Our Approach
We bring a business focused approach to every assignment. This means that, regardless of the nature of our
engagement, we will always be:
We will be professional and courteous in our dealings with you and your team. We will
Professional maintain our integrity regardless of the circumstances
We will deliver our services to you as efficiently as possible, recognising that we need to
Prompt invest sufficient time in our work to produce the quality of analysis that you, as our clients,
have the right to expect of us
We will undertake an independent and objective assessment of your situation before
Objective developing solutions that specifically address your business needs and objectives
We will present our findings to you accurately, fairly and without bias. We will not allow
Accurate internal politics or the desire to work with you in the future to influence our analysis
We will seek solutions to the specific challenges that you face. This won’t always be easy
Solutions driven because many of the challenges that we encounter have been around for a long time.
However, we will apply ourselves to finding the most innovative solutions
We will deliver demonstrable value to your organisation. We will be transparent regarding our
Value enhancing fee structure and ensure that you derive maximum value as a result of partnering with
Refreshe
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8. Conclusion
▶ With corporate sustainability becoming as integral to business as financial performance, your corporate
sustainability strategy needs to be fully aligned with your corporate strategy
▶ Refreshe provides the right combination of:
─ specialist environmental skills; and
─ business and financial expertise
to make this happen
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9. Contact Details
Primary Contact
Neil MacDonald Dr Louise Seymour CEnvP, MEIANZ
Director Director
Refreshe Refreshe
Direct Line: + 61 2 8920 9530 Direct Line: + 61 2 8006 2703
Fax: + 61 2 9956 5855 Fax: + 61 2 9956 5855
Mobile: + 61 437 570 331 Mobile: + 61 425 231 225
Email: neil.macdonald@refreshe.com.au Email: louise.seymour@refreshe.com.au
Refreshe Pty Limited
ABN 92 129 707 973
345 Pacific Highway
North Sydney
NSW 2060
www.refreshe.com.au
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10. Disclaimer
The information in this document is confidential and proprietary to Refreshe Pty Ltd
This document has been produced solely for your use and that of your professional advisers and should not be
reproduced or disclosed to any other person without our consent
The document remains the property of Refreshe Pty Ltd and must be returned to us upon request and any copies you
have made must be destroyed
Neither of us should rely on any representation or undertaking inconsistent with the above paragraphs
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