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Release Date: 2010-09-01

Report Length: General report in PowerPoint format: 157 pages; Brand Sustainability Ranking (PDF); Sustainability Playbook (PDF): 27 pages. Report package includes supporting data tables in Excel format.

Market Coverage: U.S. market

Methodology: Integrated qualitative ethnography and quantitative online survey and 20+ years of trends tracking. Qualitative fielding in Chicago, Charlotte, Dallas and Seattle. Online survey: nationally representative sample of 1,982 adult U.S. consumers 18 years of age or older.

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Marketing Sustainability

Consumers' sustainability consciousness is growing. Companies are increasingly "greening" their business practices, operations and products. Yet, there is a great divide between the two. Companies are grappling with understanding if it matters to consumers what their sustainability business practices are and if consumers will reward them for their sustainability efforts. In other words, what can companies do that will make a difference at the shelf?

Marketing Sustainability: Bridging the Gap between Consumers and Companies investigates and updates consumers' understanding of sustainability and answers questions that address the divide between consumers and the brands and services they use. This includes not only the sustainability cues that resonate with them as they shop for and purchase CPG products and utilize foodservice, but the broader conceptual context perceived by consumers to personally benefit them as companies undertake various environmental, economic, and social activities.

Marketing Sustainability captures important data and insights on how consumer understanding of sustainability has shifted to be better expressed in terms of "responsibility."

Marketing Sustainability features a "Sustainability Playbook" companion piece which is designed to be used as a manual for deploying sustainability practices and messaging within the organization. Rounding out the report package is a "Brand Sustainability Scorecard" that ranks the least to most sustainable companies and brands across industries and provides the all-important "why" behind the ranking.

The primary topics covered in the general report are:

Executive Summary and Methods
The World of Sustainability: Responsibility to Reciprocity
From Sustainability to Reciprocity: The Golden Rule
Consumer Attitudes
Sustainable Products
Communicating Sustainability
Recommendations

The primary topics covered in the Sustainability Playbook are:

The Golden Rule
Zone #1: Social Zone

Employment Practices
Community Involvement
Animal Welfare
Fair Trade

Zone #2: Environmental Zone

Waste Disposal
Energy Consumption
Resource Preservation

Zone #3: Economic Zone

Money Circulation
Ownership
Scale

Zone #4: Personal Zone

Household Finance
Quality
Personal Safety/Health

Communicating Sustainability

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Blaine Becker
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blaine@hartman-group.com

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Marketing Sustainability: Bridging the Gap between Consumers and Companies