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How To Benefit From A Sustainable Business Mindset

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The Vector Group

Develop and effectively act on a sustainable business mindset to maximize value from your sustainable business efforts, wherever you are on your sustainability journey.

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Reduce Your Risk Beat Your Competition Increase Your Valuation Success through sustainability
The Benefits of a SUSTAINABILITY MINDSET: • Remain a trusted and valuable supply-chain partner. ”You watch – this will be the most powerful, popular uprising that • Accelerate your rate-of-return on corporate sustainability. corporate America ever saw.” • Reduce costs through efficiency gains. • Put some distance between you and your competition. Jeffrey Swartz, CEO Timberland • Attract and retain the best & brightest employees. ”Sustainability continues to make Walmart a better company; by • Increase the value of intangible assets like brand image reducing waste, lowering costs, and collaborative networks. driving innovation, Increasing productivity and helping us fulfill our mission of saving our customers money A SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MINDSET can have a dramatic so they can live better net-positive impact on your organization’s performance. lives.” Mike Duke, CEO Walmart Success through sustainability
What is PROBE for Sustainable Business? • PSB is a corporate sustainability self-assessment tool designed to run in less than a month – start to finish. • The Natural Step is a co-developer of PSB. Since 1989, PROBE for Sustainable Business was their simple approach to organizational sustainability has developed in collaboration between these two informed Walmart, IKEA, Nike and many other corporate organizations. leaders. • PROBE for Sustainable Business (PSB) allows organizations like Development partners yours to harness sustainability, drive profitability, and include these organizations. accelerate rate-of-return and product development cycles. • PSB is the 7th tool in the PROBE suite. Since January 2010, fifty PSB facilitations have been run in 7 countries. Many thousands of mid-sized organizations across forty-one countries have run PROBE’s other assessments since 1995. • PSB is the key to accelerating your rate-of-return on corporate sustainability. “PROBE” is an acronym for “Promoting Business Excellence” PROBE is a trademark of Comparison International
Our 4-Step Process: PROBE for Sustainable Business Week 2 Week 1 Week 3 The team leader Team learns basics A cross-functional begins compiling of corporate We facilitate a half- team of five to eight quantitative data: sustainability & day session and use individuals are procurement, receives qualitative both quantitative selected within usage, disposal, assessment forms and qualitative data your organization. etc... to complete. to produce an initial scorecard. Just The Facts: square footage, employee count, kWh consumption, You’ll invite staff etc... from Accounting, Design, Sales, and Senior Mgmt forms Operations to join are also distributed. Week 4 the team. Within 10 days you receive a concise, actionable Executive Report - we’ll review that with senior management.
A SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MINDSET: • Provides you with a rational basis for strategic prioritization “We really appreciated the structured and rigorous assessment that PROBE around sustainability. provided. It helped us ‘hold up a mirror' to our own performance and progress • Connects your people and their knowledge with the sole and deepened our awareness of the intent of improving your performance. complex interplay between the economic, social and • Identifies risks & exposures, and shine a light on blind spots environmental in your operations. effects of our business.” • Clarifies the return-on-investment in your own sustainable John Twigg, Group Planning Director business best practices. Manchester Airports Group (UK) • Propels your business into the 21st century. “The opportunity, experience, and team building were absolutely priceless. The [PROBE] assessment was right on target Ready to get going? about where our strengths and Run a self-assessment, using weaknesses are at this point in time.” PROBE for Sustainable Business Janet S. Griffey, President/CEO RLCB Success through sustainability
One Client’s SUSTAINABILITY WIN Here’s how a southern California business used a series of Businesses small wins to boost their profitability: with a sustainability mindset consistently out-perform 1. First they implemented an energy efficiency program, saving their more conventional $3,500 per year. competition… 2. They invested the savings into an employee-wellness program. …Middle-market pressure for Fewer sick days and reduced insurance premium resulted. sustainable business best 3. The combined savings were re-invested in a switch from single- practices is rapidly accelerating... use bottled water to filtered tap water. 4. 18 months later they’re saving four ways: energy costs, sick …Sustainability is days, insurance premium, and drinking water. They’re also the next corporate mega-trend. reducing plastic bottle use, creating an authentic, marketable business story. A Sustainable Business Mindset regularly produces double- and triple-wins like this one. Whether you’re just getting starting, or are already getting How did they get started? better… By running a sustainability self-assessment. …Don’t get left behind. Success through sustainability
To evaluate PROBE for Sustainable Business and our other business tools for yourself, call Jeff Hayes at 323.549.9787 After you’ve run the assessment, then what?... After running your first PROBE for Sustainable Business assessment, you’re primed to maximize both the rate and size of your returns. Maintain your momentum with The Vector Group’s: • Workshops & Continuing Education. • Gap Analysis & Strategic Planning. • CONDUCTOR - our proprietary execution model. “The Vector Group shows their clients how to convert the waste and risk associated with old-school business practices into leading edge competitive advantage. These guys are business performance experts AND sustainability experts - in today’s increasingly competitive business environment, performance and sustainability are joined at the hip. If you want sustainability to be the best investment your company ever makes, don’t wait and wonder - call them and get started today.” -Jeff Kleid, President, Elite Risk Services

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How To Benefit From A Sustainable Business Mindset

  • 1. Reduce Your Risk Beat Your Competition Increase Your Valuation Success through sustainability
  • 2. The Benefits of a SUSTAINABILITY MINDSET: • Remain a trusted and valuable supply-chain partner. ”You watch – this will be the most powerful, popular uprising that • Accelerate your rate-of-return on corporate sustainability. corporate America ever saw.” • Reduce costs through efficiency gains. • Put some distance between you and your competition. Jeffrey Swartz, CEO Timberland • Attract and retain the best & brightest employees. ”Sustainability continues to make Walmart a better company; by • Increase the value of intangible assets like brand image reducing waste, lowering costs, and collaborative networks. driving innovation, Increasing productivity and helping us fulfill our mission of saving our customers money A SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MINDSET can have a dramatic so they can live better net-positive impact on your organization’s performance. lives.” Mike Duke, CEO Walmart Success through sustainability
  • 3. What is PROBE for Sustainable Business? • PSB is a corporate sustainability self-assessment tool designed to run in less than a month – start to finish. • The Natural Step is a co-developer of PSB. Since 1989, PROBE for Sustainable Business was their simple approach to organizational sustainability has developed in collaboration between these two informed Walmart, IKEA, Nike and many other corporate organizations. leaders. • PROBE for Sustainable Business (PSB) allows organizations like Development partners yours to harness sustainability, drive profitability, and include these organizations. accelerate rate-of-return and product development cycles. • PSB is the 7th tool in the PROBE suite. Since January 2010, fifty PSB facilitations have been run in 7 countries. Many thousands of mid-sized organizations across forty-one countries have run PROBE’s other assessments since 1995. • PSB is the key to accelerating your rate-of-return on corporate sustainability. “PROBE” is an acronym for “Promoting Business Excellence” PROBE is a trademark of Comparison International
  • 4. Our 4-Step Process: PROBE for Sustainable Business Week 2 Week 1 Week 3 The team leader Team learns basics A cross-functional begins compiling of corporate We facilitate a half- team of five to eight quantitative data: sustainability & day session and use individuals are procurement, receives qualitative both quantitative selected within usage, disposal, assessment forms and qualitative data your organization. etc... to complete. to produce an initial scorecard. Just The Facts: square footage, employee count, kWh consumption, You’ll invite staff etc... from Accounting, Design, Sales, and Senior Mgmt forms Operations to join are also distributed. Week 4 the team. Within 10 days you receive a concise, actionable Executive Report - we’ll review that with senior management.
  • 5. A SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MINDSET: • Provides you with a rational basis for strategic prioritization “We really appreciated the structured and rigorous assessment that PROBE around sustainability. provided. It helped us ‘hold up a mirror' to our own performance and progress • Connects your people and their knowledge with the sole and deepened our awareness of the intent of improving your performance. complex interplay between the economic, social and • Identifies risks & exposures, and shine a light on blind spots environmental in your operations. effects of our business.” • Clarifies the return-on-investment in your own sustainable John Twigg, Group Planning Director business best practices. Manchester Airports Group (UK) • Propels your business into the 21st century. “The opportunity, experience, and team building were absolutely priceless. The [PROBE] assessment was right on target Ready to get going? about where our strengths and Run a self-assessment, using weaknesses are at this point in time.” PROBE for Sustainable Business Janet S. Griffey, President/CEO RLCB Success through sustainability
  • 6. One Client’s SUSTAINABILITY WIN Here’s how a southern California business used a series of Businesses small wins to boost their profitability: with a sustainability mindset consistently out-perform 1. First they implemented an energy efficiency program, saving their more conventional $3,500 per year. competition… 2. They invested the savings into an employee-wellness program. …Middle-market pressure for Fewer sick days and reduced insurance premium resulted. sustainable business best 3. The combined savings were re-invested in a switch from single- practices is rapidly accelerating... use bottled water to filtered tap water. 4. 18 months later they’re saving four ways: energy costs, sick …Sustainability is days, insurance premium, and drinking water. They’re also the next corporate mega-trend. reducing plastic bottle use, creating an authentic, marketable business story. A Sustainable Business Mindset regularly produces double- and triple-wins like this one. Whether you’re just getting starting, or are already getting How did they get started? better… By running a sustainability self-assessment. …Don’t get left behind. Success through sustainability
  • 7. To evaluate PROBE for Sustainable Business and our other business tools for yourself, call Jeff Hayes at 323.549.9787 After you’ve run the assessment, then what?... After running your first PROBE for Sustainable Business assessment, you’re primed to maximize both the rate and size of your returns. Maintain your momentum with The Vector Group’s: • Workshops & Continuing Education. • Gap Analysis & Strategic Planning. • CONDUCTOR - our proprietary execution model. “The Vector Group shows their clients how to convert the waste and risk associated with old-school business practices into leading edge competitive advantage. These guys are business performance experts AND sustainability experts - in today’s increasingly competitive business environment, performance and sustainability are joined at the hip. If you want sustainability to be the best investment your company ever makes, don’t wait and wonder - call them and get started today.” -Jeff Kleid, President, Elite Risk Services