Consumer Packaged Goods

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

Supporting global CGP leaders to prepare for upcoming ESG and sustainability regulations, craft and deliver sustainable growth strategies, and capture new value creation opportunities

We help leading CPG companies — from producers of food & beverage to household products and cosmetics — proactively set, achieve, and disclose impactful sustainability and ESG outcomes that resonate with customers and regulators alike. We support our CPG clients throughout their sustainability journeys by offering proprietary tools and solutions which accelerate insight and decision making as well as our deep expertise at the intersection of sustainability and CPG.

Who we support

Food & Beverage

We work closely with food & beverage producers to seize opportunities and reduce risks arising from shifts in regulations and consumer sentiment, from preparing for new disclosure requirements in the EU, US, and globally to setting ambitious yet achievable sustainability targets.

Beauty & Health

We help beauty & health companies to create sustainable growth strategies that elevate their brands and meet key regulatory requirements. We work closely with our beauty & health clients to rapidly respond to consumer sentiment and unlock sustainable growth opportunities.

Household Goods

We support household goods manufacturers, from producers of cleaning supplies to hygiene products, to understand their competitive positioning relative to peers and elevate their ESG and sustainability strategies while reducing associated risks.

Consumer Health

We work with consumer health companies to capture new value streams by optimizing their ESG and sustainability strategies, highlighting their external impact, and enhancing regulation readiness. We help them to sharpen their core value proposition and remain competitive in a rapidly evolving environment.

Durables

We support durable goods producers to distinguish themselves as sustainable and ESG-forward leaders, leveraging innovations in their technologies and business models to showcase their contributions to climate-positive outcomes and capture new sustainable growth opportunities.

Apparel, Footwear, & Accessories

We work with apparel, footwear, and accessories CPG players to enable them to reshape the industry through delivery of new sustainable business models and resilient solutions that bridge the needs between the future and those of traditional value chains.

How we support our clients

Regulation readiness

We help CPG companies assess their preparedness to meet growing voluntary and non-voluntary reporting requirements, from CSRD and UKSDR to SEC and California.

Peer benchmarking

We support our CPG clients to benchmark themselves to their peers, identify areas of distinction as well as gaps, and rapidly deploy resources to enhance their competitive value proposition.

Showcase achievements & commitments

We collaborate closely with CPG leaders to build messaging which highlights the climate-positive and value generating outcomes and commitments they have achieved.

Create narratives for leadership & customers

We help client working teams craft narratives around sustainability goals and ambitions which resonate and excite leadership & customers.

Data & analytics

We deploy our digital assets to help CPG clients tackle data challenges and build sustainable, scalable solutions tailored to their business models and needs.

Identify value at stake

We work closely with our CPG clients to identify and quantify the largest value pools associated with sustainability and ESG within their sector which are aligned with their business.

Prioritize revenue uplift opportunities

We help CPG companies prioritize the greatest sustainability and ESG-driven revenue growth opportunities and deliver on value creating initiatives.

Galvanize new revenue streams

We support our CPG clients to think beyond their current portfolio and create new products, services, and closed-loop business models.

Our People

Andrew Alesbury

Managing Director, Washington DC

A seasoned strategist, Andrew helps executives and key enterprise decision makers identify and capture sustainable growth opportunities. Andrew has worked extensively with CPG players globally, including supporting leading CPG players conducting a CSRD readiness assessment, developing a new market entry strategy for a food & beverage manufacturer in the Middle East, and designing a financial synergy capture strategy for a food & beverage manufacturer.

Alex Kruzel

CEO & Founder, Chicago

With two decades of work toward climate-positive growth, has Alex dedicated her career to building a more inclusive, circular, and decarbonized future. Alex has provided advisory support to some of the world’s largest retail, supply chain, and logistics companies over the course of her management consulting career, which started in Deloitte’s Emerging Markets Practice and continued as President of a Chicago-based Boutique Strategy Consulting firm.

Featured tools & solutions

Prism

Prism helps CPG companies to rapidly strengthen their competitive value proposition through in-depth benchmarking of industry peers and identification of gaps and areas of distinction. Covering a comprehensive array of sustainability, climate, and ESG performance metrics across sectors, Prism enables your company to identify how best to sharpen its competitive edge.

ecoValiance

ecoValiance, Telesto’s ESG data platform, offers an integrated ESG data solution tailored to CPG companies’ specific business needs. The platform enables your organization to automatically calculate Scope 1-3 emissions (including tracking emissions from suppliers), conduct materiality assessments, and generate TCFD- and SBTi-aligned reports with a single click.