The Results of our 2020 Stakeholder Survey
Blue Skies have agreed its 2021 priorities following the completion of its annual Stakeholder Survey. Its top priorities for next year will be: Materials (with a particular emphasis on reducing plastics), Waste, Water, Energy, Health & Safety and Economic Performance. These are all topics that have been identified as material and which stakeholders have said are areas for improvement. In addition, Blue Skies aims to take a closer look in 2021 at Emissions, Market Presence, Training & Education and Procurement Practices.
All these areas will be incorporated in the Blue Skies strategy and budget plan for 2021 which is currently being devised by the company’s Executive Committee and General Managers. They will also be reported on in our 2020 Blueprint Report, which will be published early next year.
Thank you to everyone who took part in the Stakeholder Survey. This year over 161 people participated including staff, retailers and suppliers.
These are the top ten topics that our stakeholders scoped the highest in terms of their importance to them:
1. Economic Performance
2. Anti Corruption
3. Market Presence
4. Waste
5. Environmental Compliance
6. Materials
7. Water & Effluents
8. Procurement Practices
9. Occupational Health & Safety
10. Non-discrimination
These results have been combined with an assessment on the areas where Blue Skies is considered to have the greatest impact so that we can identify the topics that are the most material to the business.
Materiality Matrix
Materiality indicates the ‘relevance’ of each topic for the business. This is determined by plotting how each topic ranks in terms of importance to stakeholders (using the results of the stakeholder survey) against how each topic ranks in terms of its impact on the business (using results of a separate survey completed by the leaders of the business).
The most material topics appear in the top right of the matrix. We also scored each topic by multiplying the ‘importance’ result by the ‘ impact’ result. The ten topics that scored the highest are highlighted in red.
