Materiality Assessments

Make better business decisions with materiality assessments built for New Zealand food businesses.

Understand the ESG issues that matter most to your business and key stakeholders - now and with future-focused insight to stay ahead of the curve and focus priorities for maximum impact.

Align your business priorities with those of your stakeholders.

Our assessments helps you understand what is material for your business, eliminating blind spots and ensuring efforts are focused where it counts.

Receive decision-ready information.

Our materiality assessments uncover and document what is important to your business, allowing senior leaders and boards to take action.

Structured with your end-user in mind.

From leadership teams and boards to customers, stakeholders, and assurance providers, our materiality process is thorough, traceable and offers valuable insights.

Specialist insight for a complex sector.

Our in-house experts understand the complexity of New Zealand food businesses, from paddock to plate, including market expectations, upcoming regulatory changes, science, and stakeholder priorities.

A process as valuable as the results.

Our process helps you build bonds with staff, suppliers and customers by demonstrating your organisation’s willingness to reach out, listen, and change.

Our Approach

	1. Define scope and objectives We work with you to define the assessment scope and your business context. We also confirm the outputs you need and the stakeholders, internal and external, to include.
	2. Identify ESG topics With you, we identify and draft the ESG topics relevant to your business, sector, markets, and emerging trends.
	3. Key stakeholder interviews and workshops We engage the range of identified stakeholders to understand their perspectives on importance and impact regarding the drafted ESG topics.
	4. Stakeholder assessment and scoring of topics ESG topics are assessed for impact and relevance using a robust, structured methodology.
	5. Business impact assessment This step provides a structured way to understand the relative importance of each topic to the business.
	6. Outputs developed We produce the materiality matrix and accompanying report that clearly explains the process and findings of what was material and why.
	7. Integrate and activate We can support you to integrate the outcomes into your strategy, reporting, governance, and decision-making.

Further information: Materiality Assessments for New Zealand Food Businesses (external link)

Where Materiality Assessments Create Value

“Our customers are asking what we’re doing about sustainability, how can we respond credibly?”

Our materiality assessments demonstrate that your business is actively seeking to understand what matters to customers, stakeholders, lenders, and markets. When business decisions are informed by data rather than internal assumptions alone, it’s much easier to justify priorities. Backed by our deep food and farm system expertise, you can be confident that your materiality assessment reflects the realities of the sector and is relevant to the context you operate in.

“There are so many sustainability issues we could focus on - how do we know which ones matter most?”

Our materiality assessments can help your business identify and prioritise which ESG issues are most significant for your business, customers, investors, and value chain so you can ensure that effort and investment are focused in the right places.

“Things are changing quickly. What should we be preparing for, and how do we position the business to be resilient with long-term relevance?”

Our materiality assessments explore trends and future expectations, not just current issues. This ensures priorities remain relevant and ready to meet future expectations.

“How can our board and leadership team make evidence-based decisions without being led by the loudest voice in the room?”

Our materiality assessments show how issues are identified and assessed. This helps leadership teams make more informed decisions. Independence matters — we bring objectivity and impartiality to the process, helping to ensure decisions are grounded in evidence and stakeholder feedback, not internal bias or competing agendas.

“If we talk about sustainability publicly, how do we make sure our claims and priorities can be explained and supported?”

Our materiality assessments help create a defensible foundation for your sustainability reporting, customer communications, ESG disclosures, and assurance. The process is clear, traceable, and designed with your end-user in mind, so your priorities can be explained with confidence.


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