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

ESG Reporting Challenges

As a large multinational company, Imperial Brands discloses data to multiple different ESG 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 ESG data requests is essential. Both qualitative narrative and quantitative ESG data needs to be tracked and signed off before a submission is made.

●     ESG 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 ESG rating agencies and ESG standards work.

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

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

Nossa Data provides a centralised platform for ESG data collection and ESG disclosures. Additionally, the platform acts as a single source of truth for ESG data, enabling auditability and ESG 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 ESG scores in less time

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

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