We support businesses across the FMCG value chain to assess risks, understand impacts, and evaluate the maturity of their responsible sourcing practices. Our approach combines proprietary data analytics with systematic verification methodologies, delivering thorough yet pragmatic due diligence tailored to your business needs and stakeholder requirements.

• Support FMCG brands and manufacturers to assess risks, impacts, and the maturity of responsible business practices across ingredient sourcing, packaging, and manufacturing operations

• Deliver pragmatic, ESG-focused due diligence informed by extensive on-the-ground experience across food, beverage, personal care, and household product supply chains

• Provide clear, tailored reporting aligned with business and stakeholder needs

• Help retailers and brands identify and mitigate human rights, social, and environmental risks linked to suppliers and ingredient sources

• Conduct supplier due diligence for manufacturers, co-packers, ingredient suppliers, and raw material producers against industry standards and responsible sourcing frameworks

• Support investors and financiers in assessing ESG and human rights risks in FMCG transactions and M&A

• Enable FMCG companies to understand and manage ESG risks arising from procurement activities across complex ingredient and packaging supply chains.

We are regularly asked to produce insight reports and data-driven research and analysis for a wide range of clients.

Our expert team of responsible sourcing specialists and data analysts have access to world-leading data insights which can help teams with:

• Informed decision making on complex topics using our in-depth data platform covering agricultural production regions, processing facilities, and manufacturing hubs globally

• Legislation gap analysis to support internal audit programs and help your audit team understand the most likely areas of non-conformance with regulations like the German Supply Chain Act, CSDDD, EUDR, and emerging forced labour legislation

• Developing risk assessments and opportunities for global FMCG companies' responsible sourcing programmes

• Develop bespoke supplier reports for your teams to understand potential risks, opportunities and gap assessments against your expected standards and codes of conduct

• Commodity-specific risk assessments for key ingredients including palm oil, cocoa, coffee, soy, sugar, vanilla, tea, spices, and other agricultural commodities

• Benchmarking and Maturity Assessment – We benchmark management systems and operating practices against compliance frameworks and responsible sourcing standards. Our deep data insights platform assesses current performance and identifies priority improvements across ingredient sourcing, manufacturing, and packaging operations

• Management System Design and Implementation – We design and implement management systems for responsible business conduct and supply chain due diligence. This includes policies, procedures, risk assessment processes, supplier onboarding protocols, ingredient traceability systems, and reporting to meet regulatory requirements like the German Supply Chain Act, CSDDD, and EUDR

• Audit Preparation and Corrective Action Support – We prepare FMCG brands, manufacturers, co-packers, and ingredient suppliers for audits against industry standards and assurance frameworks. Our support includes gap assessments, documentation development, staff training, and implementing corrective actions from previous audits

Supplier Due Diligence Assessments - We deliver independent due diligence assessments of ingredient suppliers, agricultural producers, manufacturing facilities, co-packers, and packaging suppliers against HRDD requirements and industry standards. Our assessments include:

• Red flag evaluation against serious abuses including forced labour, child labour, and unsafe working conditions

• Sub-national risk classification using our proprietary risk assessment framework—revealing farm-level, facility-level, and district-level risk variation that national classifications miss

• Supply chain traceability verification and documentation review across multi-tier ingredient supply chains

• Stakeholder impact assessments including smallholder farmer engagement and worker voice

• Agricultural commodity risk assessments (deforestation, water stress, agrochemical use, land rights)

• Clear gap analysis and corrective action recommendations.

• Salient ESG issue identification specific to FMCG product categories and ingredient portfolios

• Comprehensive human rights and environmental risk profiling for sourcing regions and agricultural commodities

• Historical legacy issues and reputational exposure assessments

• Community and smallholder farmer relations vulnerabilities

• Labour rights conditions including seasonal workers, migrant labour, and agricultural workers

• Risk integration into sourcing decisions and supplier selection processes.

Crafting and implementing a robust human rights strategy is complex, encompassing sustainable development, farmer and worker wellbeing, and mitigation of negative impacts. It must also consider environmental impacts, such as deforestation, water depletion, agrochemical pollution, and climate vulnerability.

We can help you determine if the specific human rights issues that affect your company are covered by other impact assessments or due diligence processes, and whether they require a separate HRIA – ensuring compliance with sustainable business regulations.

Awareness raising, sourcing and procurement team training to better understand risks, internal audit capacity training as well as full audit training. Our auditors are accredited to the highest standards including ISO 14001, 45001, APSCA CSCA and have conducted thousands of audits globally. We can:

• Train your team in the environmental, social and governance issues present in FMCG supply chains, and how to identify and mitigate risk across ingredient sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution

• Help your team to implement any improvement actions needed to close the gaps identified during audits and assessments

• Provide the tools to improve operations in line with international and recognised standards and regulations, developing long-term internal capacity

• Build supplier and smallholder farmer capability to meet brand standards and improve conditions throughout agricultural supply chains

• Deliver specialised training on commodity-specific risks (palm oil, cocoa, coffee).