Sustainability consultancy Edge Impression has joined world participant RSK, offering impetus for the agency’s formidable progress agenda whereas persevering with the latter’s current push into Australia.
Established in 2008, Edge Impression operates from 5 workplaces in Australia, New Zealand and Chile, its workforce of 80 professionals helping authorities and main personal and public sector shoppers by way of end-to-end ESG companies.
Primarily based out of the UK, RSK has in the meantime constructed up a large world presence over current years, its portfolio of round 200 corporations worldwide now together with eight in Australia because the agency first stepped up its native ambitions in 2021.
“RSK will proceed to put money into Australian companies which can be taking part in their half in delivering sustainable options,” mentioned co-founder and CEO Alan Ryder. “Edge Impression particularly is a superb match for RSK with its spectacular observe report of supporting blue-chip corporations to develop and implement ESG methods. We see numerous alternatives for income synergies throughout the group.”
Billed by RSK as ‘Australia’s largest unbiased full-service setting and sustainability consultancy’, Edge Impression was established as ‘Edge Surroundings’ by Jonas Bengtsson and Tom Davies on Sydney’s Northern Seashores sixteen years in the past earlier than later gaining B Corp standing and rebranding to its present title in 2022 as a greater reflection of its function and increasing vary of companies.
That broad portfolio – grouped round three core strains; ‘local weather & and nature’, technique & transformation’, and ‘reporting, engagement & communication’ – has since catered to the ESG wants of quite a few excessive profile shoppers working within the infrastructure, client items, retail, and journey sectors amongst others, together with Coca-Cola, Optus, and Transurban as only a small pattern.
“Since founding Edge, we’ve pursued a singular mission to catalyse sustainable economies for future generations,” Bengtsson and Davies mentioned. “Whereas we’ve steadily expanded our companies and influence, we recognise that the local weather disaster calls for unprecedented scale and velocity. This essential decade requires greater than natural progress; it requires daring collaboration and exponential influence.”
Progress agenda
Each corporations have been open about their formidable progress plans; Edge with a view to constructing to 250 workers globally and $60 million in revenues earlier than the top of the last decade, and RSK aiming to double the variety of companies below its umbrella over that very same time frame whereas upping its headcount from 15,000 to 40,000 and nearly quadrupling its revenues to greater than £5 billion.
Australia, RSK says, represents a key plank in its daring technique, earmarked to contribute $1.4 billion of that concentrate on and 5,000 – or one eighth – of its world workforce by 2030, up from its current figures of $240 million and 450 professionals after arriving in simply 2021. Its native purchases since then have included SJA, which has seen the launch of a world dispute decision line co-led out of Sydney.
“With RSK’s world fame for main on sustainability, our funding in Edge Impression makes excellent sense,” said Australia managing director Mark Haydock. “The whole lot we do stems from a clearly outlined function – to assist our shoppers progress in the direction of a resilient, future-ready Australia, and we’re assured that investing in Edge Impression will add nice worth to this dedication.”
Alison Rowe, who took over as Edge CEO earlier this 12 months, in the meantime mentioned the deal supplies the agency with a novel alternative; “Inside RSK Australia, we are able to realise the modern progress we attempt for whereas having fun with the assist of a bunch that shares our values. Reaching lasting sustainability influence is so essential to the enterprise that we have now all labored so exhausting to create.”
