World-Leading Food and Beverage Company Engaged Qurator to Find New Alternative Packaging Suppliers
"70% of the suppliers found were new to us."
Project Goal
Our client is on the lookout for circular packaging
As part of their commitment towards the circular economy of packaging, our client is actively exploring alternative materials for their food packaging that can be manufactured with a low environmental footprint, reducing CO2 emissions and enabling circularity.
The Challenge
The landscape for alternative materials is complex and fragmented with innovation often delivered by small companies including start-ups and scale-ups.
Extensive market studies usually take several months to complete, and formal supplier enquiries would require along and tedious NDA process, which slows down the search even further.
How Qurator helps
Our project has three objectives:
- to better understand the landscape of manufacturing technologies for alternative packaging
- to shortlist potential technology providers this client could collaborate with
- to provide maximum depth of data about the shortlisted technology options and their suppliers without the need of lengthy NDA processes
Project Process
Based on our client's criteria, we have screen our database of sustainable technology providers and shortlisted 25 companies as potential collaboration partners. The client then selected 5 the most promising companies for which we sourced additional information on their commercial and technical maturity, sustainability performance and patent activity.
Outcome
- Wider landscape knowledge with 70 % of screen suppliers new to the company
- Greater depth of data for selected companies
- Time-efficient screening without the need for market studies
