Company
Ponthier
Headcount
100 employees
Website
Sector
Project type
Climate strategy
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In brief
- Ponthier is one of the leaders in fruit processing;
- The company employs 133 people and generates €74 million in revenue from 12,000 tonnes of products sold worldwide;
- We have supported Ponthier at several milestones in its climate action plan: from its first carbon footprint assessment to management control training, and finally to defining a reduction trajectory and structuring its climate strategy.
Their challenge
Since 1946, Maison Ponthier has specialised in processing fresh fruit into purées and coulis. Taking advantage of the fertile orchards of Corrèze, Ponthier has grown over generations by focusing on fruit quality and careful processing — two pillars that still prevail today. In 2022, Ponthier launched an ambitious CSR initiative, with B Corp certification and mission-driven company status in its sights.
It was in this context that Ponthier first sought the support of Carbon Cutter to carry out its first carbon assessment, then to be trained on the task and become autonomous in its accounting.
Two years later, Ponthier faced a double challenge:
- To develop a climate strategy in line with issues related to climate (emissions reduction trajectory) and biodiversity (agroecological transition).
- To articulate and deploy a 5-year group action plan capable of achieving the targets set.
The project completed with Carbon Cutter
To meet Ponthier’s climate structuring needs, we supported the company over a 12-month period through the ACT Pas-à-Pas program. This program, conducted in collaboration with the CSR manager, helped build on the elements already undertaken by Ponthier (CSR roadmap, B-corp, mission-driven company) and revisit the company’s fundamentals in light of its climate and biodiversity ambitions (vision, strategic pillars, governance).
The management committee was thus called upon for the first time to engage in multidisciplinary reflection on how to integrate these issues into the company’s overall strategy through dedicated workshops (risks/opportunities, vision, strategic planning).
As the CSR roadmap had previously been led by the CSR manager and industrial management, the first challenge was to roll out the actions to the operational teams. We therefore ran action plan workshops for each strategic area with multidisciplinary teams set up for the occasion (e.g. low-carbon logistics, agroecological sourcing).
In parallel, a quantification and finalisation exercise with the objectives of the new strategy (e.g. SBTi on scopes 1/2) had to be carried out in collaboration with the finance department. This exercise enabled the level of ambition of the actions decided by the thematic teams to be adjusted iteratively.
Results
Tools for steering climate strategy at group level
The interviews and workshops conducted with members of the Executive Committee enabled us to put together a set of founding documents for the new strategy: an environmental SWOT analysis, a 5-10-25 year vision statement, quantitative objectives and a structure based on 10 strategic pillars.
Dashboard
The work carried out with the thematic teams on the action plan has resulted in the development of detailed, operational and quantified action plans. The company now has a consolidated dashboard that allows it to monitor the progress of each team’s actions and assign subtasks.
SBTi trajectory
Today, Ponthier has had its scope 1/2 trajectory validated by SBTi and received a favourable opinion from the mission committee on the publication of its mission report for 2023.
