Client: Pernod Ricard
Project: Global sustainability strategy
Tags: consumer insight, strategy

Putting sustainability at the heart of the business and its brands

 

The challenge

Refine and enhance a category-leading strategy to create value for the business and drive brand innovation.

 

What we did

Pernod Ricard is the world’s second biggest wine and spirits business. Working with the Group Sustainability team, we refined and strengthened a new strategy. We then adapted the strategy for operating companies and worked with 10 of their biggest brands to use social and environmental issues as a platform for innovation and brand purpose.

  • Enhanced the core pillars of the strategy with stretching ambitions, big goals and clear roadmaps.

  • Business case to define a meaningful connection between sustainability issues and consumer insights.

  • Stress-testing the new goals against competitors and external standards.

  • Innovation and brand platforms for Pernod Ricard’s leading brands, including Jameson, Jacobs Creek and Perrier Jouet.

  • Visual assets to bring the strategy to life to make it accessible and engaging to employees and external stakeholders with short, sharp narratives, films, templates and animations.

 
Pernod Ricard - Good Times
 
 

Outcomes

  • All major operating companies with sustainability roadmaps against the 4 pillars.

  • 8 global brands with an updated brand purpose, strategy or campaign based on the sustainability strategy.

  • >70% employee awareness of the sustainability strategy within 4 months.

 

“We have thoroughly enjoyed working with Fortitude. They are very strategic, professional and make great partners. Their skills and expertise provide the perfect mix of brand strategy experience and knowledge with an in-depth understanding of sustainability from a business and consumer perspective.”

Vanessa Wright
Chief Sustainability Officer, Pernod Ricard

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