Mike BarryHead of Sustainable BusinessMarks and Spencer@planamikebarry

The Potential of a Sustainable Future

Our Value Chain

35,000Product Lines

Involving

2,000 factories 20,000 farms

2,000,000 workers 1000s of raw materials

Engaging75,000 employees and 21m customers each week

via 1000+ stores and website

2012 a milestone year

Achieved carbon neutral including reducing our carbon footprint by 22% in absolute terms (energy, fuel, gases etc)

Zero waste to landfill achieved and a 31% reduction in waste

Top to UK health food brands: Count on Us / Simply Fuller Longer

Proved & published the business case for sustainability - £105m LY

£3bn sales on Plan A attributed product

Launch of Forever Fish, Shwopping and UNICEF partnership

All wild fish from most sustainable sources available

5000th Marks and Start participant

Journey to become...

Pace and scale of change accelerated

A value creating business that is carbon positive, wastes nothing, restores the natural environment and improves peoples lives.

100 commitments, big impact, Strong business case

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Time

Philanthropy 1980s

Community Investment1990s

CSR2000s

Plan A2007-2012

Plan A extended2012-2015

Sustainable Business

2015-30

Single issues managed byteam on edge of business.

The Opportunity• Sharing economy – consumption can help the African economy grow but there is a

new way of doing it. • Power of mobile – it enables a sustainable future

• Resource constraints – feeding the world, waste as a raw material, sustainable bio-fuels

• Beyond commodities – Capture more value from production

• Smart standards – use standards to demonstrate social and environmental best practice as well as to drive improved productivity and traceability

• Extension services – consistent application of best practice

• Offsets – Capture value from protecting and preserving Africa’s biodiversity and capturing and locking up carbon.

• Renewables – leaping a generation, abundant availability of sun, wind, water and biomass, without having to rely on grid

• People – young, female and educated

Achieving your potential

• Provide leadership - supported by clear strategy and benefits case

• Integrate – into sustainability into all that you do – education, medicine, engineering, law etc

• Partnership – build new partnerships to deliver mutual benefit with civil society, academia, Government, Business

• Consumer/citizen – engage positively in the power and potential for change

• Innovation - create new solutions, faster and better and export to the rest of the world

Journey to become...

Pace and scale of change accelerated

Value created that is carbon positive, wastes nothing, restores the natural environment and improves peoples lives.

Prove that solutions work

Sus

tain

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Time

Philanthropy 1980s

Government Aid1990s

CSR2000s

Pilot

Scale2015-25

Sustainable Africa

2025-30

Single issues managed to prevent ‘bad things’ from happening. 2012-15