Investors and other stakeholders are requiring more in-depth social and environmental responsibility information from companies. At the same time, companies are requiring their suppliers to report on a range of CSR issues. Intertek and SRI World Group will focus on the common demands of supply chain reporting (business-to-business) and institutional reporting (business-to-investor) of social, environmental, corporate governance, and other non-financial data.

"Intertek and SRI World Group have teamed up to help companies with the difficult process of sharing data among stakeholders in an environment of non-standardized and often duplicative requests for information," said Andre Raghu, Director of Intertek CSeR Group." This unique partnership will allow companies to build stakeholder relationships and leverage their CSR performance by providing meaningful information to a wide variety of stakeholders and research institutions in an effective and timely manner," he added.

This alliance unites Intertek’s global network of in-country field teams and CSR professionals with extensive experience in supply chain monitoring and advisory services with SRI World Group’s information technology expertise and its sustainability reporting network known as OneReport. This new team will combine their respective expertise to design cutting-edge supply chain reporting tools that will serve the interests of companies, the research community, and stakeholders.

"Our partnership with Intertek further underscores our commitment to developing OneReport as a comprehensive reporting solution," said Jay Falk, President of SRI World Group. "The addition of supply chain reporting capabilities will enhance OneReport's ability to simplify the reporting process and reduce sustainability reporting costs for companies," he added.