As a key element of Bath & Body Works' ESG initiatives, we are committed to making meaningful, long-term impacts through sustainable sourcing. In 2023, we partnered with Antea Group, a global sustainability expert, to develop a tool that enhances our understanding of the social and environmental effects of the materials used in both merchandise and non-merchandise procurement. This tool was designed to support our ESG goals by improving the sustainability profile of priority ingredients and fostering resilient communities.

Following this initial assessment, we launched pilot programs to advance our sustainability commitments, beginning with Madagascan vanilla.

Madagascar, the primary global supplier of the Vanilla Planifolia species, is a crucial source of natural vanilla for Bath & Body Works. While the region boasts rich biodiversity, challenges such as droughts and economic instability threaten the livelihoods of vanilla farmers.

To support these farmers, we have partnered with the Givaudan Foundation to enhance their quality of life. Over the next three years, we will provide 3,000 energy-efficient cookstoves to farming households in Madagascar’s Sava region, where the majority of our natural vanilla is sourced.

Past initiatives of this kind have demonstrated benefits such as:

We are dedicated to supporting vanilla farmers, ensuring the sustainability of this essential ingredient for generations to come. Our Madagascan vanilla initiative serves as a foundation for further learning and growth, reinforcing our commitment to people, communities, and the planet.

Dailycsr.com – 16 December 2020 – “Resources-as-a-Service”, in short RaaS, is the name of the new health service added to the Antea Group USA’s “Health and Safety offerings”, whereby the new addition provides “customizable staffing solution” to address temporary “resourcing needs” related to environment, safety, sustainability and health issues.
 
In the words of Antea Group USA’s Senior Consultant as well as the Lead of RaaS, Mark Longson:
“Our RaaS solution effectively responds to our client’s need for in-house, temporary EHS and sustainability professionals. Our clients know that Antea Group has the ability to provide resources that match their technical needs and that fit their culture. Antea Group makes the initial process of candidate evaluation, selection, and procurement simple and cost-effective. Throughout the assignment, Antea Group remains involved with the client and the Antea Group RaaS employee to ensure performance satisfaction. At the conclusion of the assignment, we work closely with the client to enable a seamless transition.”
 
You can access the entire press coverage on the same by clicking on the link given below:
https://us.anteagroup.com/news-events/news/antea-group-announces-new-service-offering-resources-as-a-service
 
References:
3blmedia.com

Dailycsr.com – 26 June 2018 – In a pleasant announcement, Antea Group revealed that Richard Crowther will be the company’s new Food & Beverage Segment’s head. Crowther is a senior consultant from Atlanta and brings to the table twenty five years of “engineering and management experience” in the beverage and utility industries.
 
Crowther’s speciality lies in planning “sustainability programmes”, improving “energy and water efficiency”, complying with EHS, managing “environmental liability”, reducing carbon footprints and dealing with “large-scale energy management” initiatives which also includes developing “alternative energy project”.
 
Richard Crowther joined Antea Group in the year 2016. He came from “Coca-Cola Refreshments” and so far he has slipped into the shoes of a leader for company’s “energy management and facility optimization service lines”. In this manner he chipped in to design “innovative solutions” concerning “energy/water efficiency and outsourcing services”.
 
Furthermore, he has headed various projects for “food and beverage clients” in order to improve the latter’s “operational efficiency” besides reducing risks and increasing compliance and operative sustainability. In the words of Crowther:
“I am looking forward to leading our talented and experienced team of professionals to serve our valued Food & Beverage clients. We know the industry is evolving as it faces increasingly challenging EHS compliance and sustainability issues across the supply chain but Antea Group is uniquely situated to partner with our customers for mutual success.”
 
 
References:
3blmedia.com

Dailycsr.com – 29 September 2017 – Recently, the Antea Group came out with its “2016 Sustainability Report” which outlines the company’s commitments towards establishing a “Better Business, Better World”.
 
One way of achieving this above mentioned goal is to compensate “all employees for up to 8 hours per year” for volunteering in organisations that they choose by themselves. Likewise, the employees of Antea have volunteered in cleaning a river, helped to replenish food bank’s stock, and planted vegetables. Discover more stories of Antea’s employee volunteering for the community welfare at:
http://us.anteagroup.com/en-us/blog/socially-sustainable-antea-group-employees-get-their-hands-dirty
 
 
References:
ethicalperformance.com

Dailycsr.com – 25 April 2017 – The Antea Group is hosting a one day long workshop, wherein the “brightest” of “EHS minds” in tech line will come together to collaborate, share about “best practice” and gather insight into “the complex challenges” that come on the way to manage “EHS across global operations”.
 
The EHSxTech workshop will be also co-hosted by “Salesforce”, while “Microsoft, Autodesk” as well as Salesforce will come up with their “special presentations”.
 
Here is a list of topics that will be covered in event, as mentioned by Antea Group:

 
While features speakers are, as mentioned by Antea Group:

 
 
 
 
References:
ethicalperformance.com
http://us.anteagroup.com