How Imperial Brands Optimises their ESG Reporting with Nossa Data

About Imperial Brands and Nossa Data

Who is Imperial Brands: Imperial Brands is a British multinational tobacco company with products sold in over 100 countries. A commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues is a core element of Imperial Brands’ business strategy and reflected in their annual publication of the ESG Performance Summary.

Who is Nossa Data: Nossa Data is a female-founded ESG technology company that empowers corporations to streamline and enhance their ESG disclosures across global frameworks, regulations and standards such as the CSRD, ISSB standards, CDP, Ecovadis, SASB, MSCI, WDI and more. Nossa Data centralises the collection of quantitative and qualitative data by combining smart automation with expert ESG guidance. Nossa Data helps organisations move from compliance to leadership in sustainability disclosure.

ESG Reporting Challenges

As a large multinational company, Imperial Brands discloses data to multiple different standards for various stakeholders including investors and customers. On top of this, sustainability data and sign-off responsibility is distributed through many internal subject matter experts (SMEs) and stakeholders. The key challenges they face:

●     Knowledge and data sign-off is dispersed across multiple departments. Collaboration on data requests is essential and both qualitative narrative and quantitative data needs to be tracked and signed off before a submission is made.

●     Reporting obligations to multiple sustainability standards, each with their own methodologies and data requirements (CDP, EcoVadis, WDI).

●     Company-specific ESG targets require detailed knowledge of how the frameworks and standards work.

Solution: Imperial Brands uses Nossa Data to centralise their data collection, collaborate with multiple SMEs, identify gaps and sign-off for multiple ESG standards

Imperial Brands has  improved its reporting efficiency and saved valuable time through the use of Nossa Data’s collaboration features, allowing individuals across teams to enter data relevant to multiple frameworks such as the CDP, EcoVadis and the WDI.

Nossa Data provides a centralised platform for data collection and ESG disclosure. Additionally, the platform acts as a single source of truth for ESG data, enabling auditability and alignment across the organisation. Dr. Zahidah Gill, Global Head of Non-Financial Reporting (ESG) shared:

“Using the Nossa Data Platform has significantly streamlined our ESG reporting at Imperial Brands. It reduces manual effort, enhances data quality, and ensures alignment across global frameworks like CDP, EcoVadis and WDI. The platform’s benchmarking and analytics tools also help us track performance and respond to investor expectations more effectively.”

Outcome: Improved scores in less time

On top of supporting the streamlining of data collection flows, Nossa Data supported Imperial Brands in meeting their target score improvement for the EcoVadis assessment. Alongside access to Nossa’s tool, Imperial Brands leverages Nossa’s regular monthly support calls with ESG specialists to receive additional strategic insights, helping the company continuously refine their reporting approach.

‍Matthew Johnson, Global ESG Operations Manager, Imperial Brands shared:

“Nossa Data has been a massive help in our reporting. It has allowed us to streamline answers, see best practices, and improve our reporting scores to name a few. In addition to the software, the Nossa team are incredibly experienced and proactive, which makes them a pleasure to work with.”