investors increasingly see CSR as good business management, demonstrating the long-term resilience of the organisation to changes in the external operating environment.

Benefits for Your Business

Implementing strategies to better manage your key stakeholders demonstrates to investors that your business is aware of, and is actively managing, the opportunities and risks associated with these groups.  These may include;

• Environmental and legislative changes
• The profit impact of projected increases in the cost of key resources such as electricity, gas, fuel and landfill tax
• Reputational risks arising as a result of negative media coverage due to poor CSR practices
• Difficulty in attracting and retaining top employees as a result of employment practices which are less than 'best in class'

What we can do for your business

4front Consulting can work with your business to:

• Manage and maximise the opportunities associated with current and upcoming legislation which may financially impact your business's operations
• Develop strategies to reduce your use of costly resources, saving money
• Develop and implement employee engagement strategies to boost employee morale and motivation at work. This in turn increases productivity and reduces recruitment and training costs
• Develop and manage community engagement initiatives to secure community and / or government support for your business's core objectives, saving the costly impact of negative community involvement

Research shows that Companies that effectively manage their CSR and stakeholder strategies consistently outperform their FTSE 350 peers on total shareholder returns.

Source: BITC

"The financial community is increasingly looking at companies and rewarding those that thin smartly about their use of resources."

- Paul Polman, Unilever (Accenture 2010)