Summary of the benefits of the Edenark Group ISO 14001 program:
End Game – Value to You, the Business Owner/Manager
- Doing the right thing for all current and future stakeholders
- Joining the world’s premier environmental sustainability fraternity of organizations
- Alignment with UN / SDGs / COP / Global Community
- International recognition / Being part of the solution
- Differentiation from competition, positively impacting sales
- Introduction to millions of consumers, seeking certified sustainable businesses
- Improved employee health, wellness, attitude and performance
- Improved financial performance (lower costs / higher revenues)
- Improved valuation / brand image / public image / market influence
- Attract/retain staff
- Foundation to build carbon neutrality, ESG and Net Zero programs, if you wish
Summary of What Makes Us Unique
- We took the world’s Gold Standard for sustainability certification – the ISO 14001:2015
- Uniquely customized it for SMEs (small to mid-sized businesses), to dramatically lower the cost
- Uniquely added promotion of the certification, to drive sales/revenues/image
- Uniquely added employee performance/wellness to help staff be happier, healthier and more productive
- Uniquely added design/3rd party valuation of carbon neutrality and ESG
- No other program offers this combination of features
Summary of Financial Benefits of Sustainability Certification
- Research (not performed or contracted by us) shows the following reported benefits –
- SMEs certified/promoting our standard are growing 20x faster versus non-certified competitors
- Overall, +67% investor ROI for certified sustainable companies versus non-certified competitors
- Overall, enjoy +24.6% Net Income and +11% EBITDA versus non-certified competitors
- Overall, 10 – 15% market sales performance increase versus non-certified competitors
- Overall, +4.8% annual stock premium versus non-certified competitors
- 99% reported net (inclusive of all improved costs) cost reductions
- 95% reported improved employee wellness and interpersonal interaction
- 90% reported reduced capital costs (average of 136 basis points on debt and 1.8% on equity)
- 88% reported improved operational performance / cash flow
- 81% reported positive impact on consumer decisions, impacting sales/revenues
- 75% reported improved competitive advantage
- 75% reported attracting new customers
- 75% reported improved financial performance
- 65% reported improved company image
- 60% reported improved employee engagement
- 60% reported improved management commitment
- 55% reported new market penetration