Making Sustainable Business Happen

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2degrees helps organisations unlock hidden opportunities for sustainable efficiency and growth by enabling fully-linked collaboration. This is achieved through:2degrees Community - 33,000 plus professional members who use our online platform to connect with one another to share best practice, access information and solve common sustainable business problems together.

2degrees Enterprise - helping major corporations cut costs, reduce risk and achieve smarter growth by being more sustainable. We do this by helping them transform out-dated business practices, using fully-linked collaboration to make it simple and efficient for them to work closely and at scale with suppliers, internal operations and customers.

2degrees Live - a unique online and offline events programme that brings delegates face-to-face with peers and experts to solve their shared business challenges by being more sustainable.

Making Sustainable Business Happen - driving smarter, faster, growth

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Definition - used to describe a supply chain or value chain in which all the organisations and individuals are easily connected to one another to create a web of knowledge sharing that enables advanced collaboration, at scale, to cut costs, impacts and drive growth.

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“I thought it was an excellent day - lots of contributions, shared experiences... I really enjoyed the day and found it very interesting and stimulating.”

Peter Bragg, Environment & Energy Manager, Eurostar

“Sustainability means responsibility – working collaboratively and in partnership is part of the solution. The Asda Exchange offers a two-way conversation with our supply chain, allowing us to work more collaboratively and efficiently with our valued suppliers.”

Julian Walker-Palin, Head of Corporate Sustainability, Asda

“The huge challenges and issues that businesses face around sustainability cannot all be addressed in isolation and need efficient collaboration and sharing mechanisms with relevant subject expertise, for which 2degrees is a great vehicle.”

Jake Backus, Customer Sustainability Director, Coca-Cola Europe

“The Exchange is important for us because it will help us move at pace with greater collaboration as we try and tackle our challenges and hit the growth targets for the group.”

Ian Playford, Group Property Director, Kingfisher

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At 2degrees Enterprise we help major corporations cut costs, reduce risk and achieve smarter growth by being more sustainable. We do this by helping them transform out-dated business practices, using fully-linked collaboration to make it simple and efficient for them to work closely and at scale with suppliers, internal operations and customers. This is made possible through an innovative combination of our leading stakeholder engagement platform, our experienced engagement managers and unique processes.

With over 800 members from 300 businesses supplying Asda, the Asda Sustain & Save Exchange (SSE) is targeting an estimated $1bn savings from waste, water and energy in the food supply chain. Through collaboration, the SSE is a key driver of Asda’s aspiration to have the most sustainable and resilient supply chain in the UK. In particular, it uses the lens of sustainability to identify opportunities to create shared value with supplier partners, through a focus on resource efficiency.

The Tesco Knowledge Hub is the world’s largest supply chain sustainability collaboration, providing an online knowledge-sharing platform for over 1,800 professionals. Members include representatives from 700 of its largest suppliers, Tesco colleagues and external experts. The Knowledge Hub is a key pillar in Tesco’s work to reduce the carbon footprint of the products it sells by 30% by 2020 – enabling suppliers to work with Tesco and each other to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout its supply chain, while at the same time unlocking efficiency savings and building relationships.

The Kingfisher Exchange supports 5 Kingfisher operating companies in 8 countries globally to work together to accelerate progress towards a $100m cost efficiency objective associated with the energy, waste and environmental impacts across its commercial property portfolio.

The recently launched RBS Innovation Gateway project will accelerate the testing, trial and development of breakthrough solutions for the built environment by providing services, support and a test environment to SMEs, inventors and innovators. The goal is that by 2020, the Innovation Gateway will have accelerated the development and commercialisation of breakthrough solutions for the future, and applied them to the RBS Estate.

We are currently running client programs for a number of leading companies including:

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“The Exchange is creating value and not extracting value from the supply chain. The measure of success is that people are already saving money... At Asda, we want to build a world class supply base for the future, so we’ll be working with the most proactive suppliers on this agenda to explore how we will continue to support each other for the future.”

Barry Williams, Chief Merchandising Officer Food, Asda

Millions of dollars of savings have already been achieved through our client programmes, and they are now unlocking billions more. A recent report from University of Oxford’s Säid Business School calculated that based on our work there was $28bn in resource efficiency savings to be made in the European food supply chain. A further report in partnership with Cambridge University Institute for Manufacturing estimated that UK manufacturing could improve its profits by 12% by doing the kinds of things that members in our client communities are achieving.

The 2degrees bespoke online platform and fully-linked collaboration process enables us to:• Accelerate problem-solving and innovation, e.g. turning one company’s

waste into another’s resource

• Aggregate demand for solutions to reduce cost of implementation, e.g. procurement of low energy, LED lighting solutions for suppliers in the Tesco Buying Club

• Drive forward cross company collaboration projects, e.g. crop utilization, smart logistics and waste to energy

• Help international business units work together to deliver energy efficiency improvements across local businesses, e.g. refrigeration, lighting and boilers

• Access pioneering innovators and accelerate the uptake of new resource efficiency technology, e.g. the implementation of new technologies to reduce operating costs and increase the value of a property estate

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Our service is delivered through online programmes, complemented by offline workshops and events, and includes:• A continuous business improvement programme - as defined by the client

• An efficient way to engage thousands of suppliers, customers or colleagues simultaneously

• A cost effective way to identify challenges, opportunities or hot spots and share best practice

• A practical way of identifying good practices and benchmarking individual companies or manufacturing sites

• A means of measuring environmental impact reduction and business performance over time

As leaders in developing smart, practical ways of engaging people and companies at scale, our collaboration programmes deliver real outcomes and help clients achieve their goals to become more efficient, drive competitive advantage and reduce risk.

“We’ve pledged to reduce the carbon footprint of the products we sell by 30% by 2020. To do this we need to work with all of our suppliers and the Tesco Knowledge Hub provides an excellent way for us all to learn more, and to share best practice.”

John Scouler, Commercial Director, Tesco

“We’re fully committed to 30% reduction of our carbon emissions by 2020. And Tesco’s Buying Club (on 2degrees) is really supporting our sustainability plan, Greenprint for Good, ensuring a better environment now and for the future.”

Keith Packer, CEO, Typhoo

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Participants are organised into highly-focused workshop teams or breakouts, according to their most pressing challenge, which they submit in advance of the event. The informal, interactive format creates an environment for attendees where they feel confident to talk openly about the issues they face and dive into the detail.

2degrees Live run the only fully linked events because, unlike others, we offer delegates and sponsors the opportunity to engage and interact with each other in forums and discussions pre & post event through our online community – thereby offering many months worth of interaction, engagement & profile building with a high quality targeted audience.

The main 2degrees Live events include:

• Sustainable Supply Chain

• Energy Performance

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Resource Efficiency Summit

• Sustainability Champions Awards

2degrees Live brings you face-to-face with peers and experts who share similar business challenges, as well as those who offer practical solutions.

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“Winning a 2degrees Sustainability Champions Award was such an achievement for Telefónica UK (O2) because it rewarded employees from across the business, not just the sustainability team. Real proof that at O2 sustainability is moving in the direction of embedded in business, good for business.”

Think Big Internal Manager, Telefónica UK

“Interesting, relevant and thought provoking event which left me re-energised to tackle our organisational resource efficiency challenges.” Group H&S Executive, Icelandic Group UK

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Our membership consists of over 33,000 professionals who use our online platform to connect with peers and those with relevant experience to: be inspired and learn from one another; gain insight into the issues, impacts and business benefits of sustainability; and collaborate to solve common problems.

Over 50% of 2degrees members have decision making power and work across a range of functions including procurement, energy management, finance, compliance,

operations, CSR and EHS, and come from companies such as Coca-Cola, Unilever, Diageo, the BBC, Tesco, Nike, Rolls-Royce and BSkyB.

2degrees Community offers an exciting opportunity for companies wishing to increase their market profile within certain sectors and provides a really targeted channel for those wanting to drive forward both marketing campaigns and business development opportunities.

The 2degrees Community is the world’s largest community for professionals wanting to grow their businesses by being more sustainable.

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over 33,000 members

“The CloudApps profile on 2degrees was invaluable in introducing us to Sears Canada, where we now manage carbon, energy & waste reduction for their 180 retail stores and outlets.”Tim Knight, Marketing Director, CloudApps

At 2degrees, we believe that business is key to solving the greatest challenge of our time: how 9 billion people can live well and sustainably on a single planet with finite resources.

This is also business’ biggest challenge - how companies can survive and thrive in a time of turbulent change. They can only do this by adopting the principles of Sustainable Business, embracing economic efficiency as well as environmental and social concerns.

Most of the knowledge and capability needed to answer the challenge already exists somewhere, scattered across different businesses and value chains.

Over the past few years we have developed a unique and innovative approach using our online platform to connect up the people, knowledge and organisations that can solve this challenge.

By bringing these together and facilitating practical, peer-to-peer information sharing and problem solving to deliver real outcomes, we make sustainable business happen.

Join us on the Journey.

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Our Journey

6,000 members 11,000 members 18,000 members 26,000 members 33,000 members

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015

Meltwater ventures

builds concept of 2degrees

2degrees platform goes live

2degrees launches

Green Monday, London

Supports first UKTI

trade mission

Tesco Knowledge

Hub supplier network launched

Tesco Producer network launched

GSK support program launched

2degrees Live runs its first

conference

Kingfisher Exchange launched

Asda Sustain & Save

Exchange launched

First Sustainability Champions

Awards Dinner

RBS Bank Innovation Gateway launched

Irish Food Board

Program launches

Tesco LED Buying Club

launched

Working to $1billion

savings through sustainability

by 2015

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