Power Retail Sustainability Index - Submission

Social and environmental responsibility are everyone’s business.

Not only is there large-scale scientific consensus on rising inequality, exploitation and finite planetary resources, but also increasing public awareness and consumer demand for brands to drive positive social and environmental impact.

Power Retail, in partnership with The Purpose Agents, have developed the Power Retail Sustainability Index, to drive awareness in the Australian retail industry, develop a benchmark for sustainable retail businesses and highlight and reward best practice.

Our questionnaire is derived from the triple bottom line theory whereby companies should be working on achieving positive results with regard to three bottom lines:

Profit: The traditional measure of corporate success
People: The measure of social responsibility when doing business
Planet: The measure of environmental responsibility when doing business

The questionnaire contains 28 questions and is divided into three sections which ask you to discuss your efforts in protecting or driving positive impact for people and/or the planet in three topic areas:
Company Ethos (12 questions)
Business Operations & Value Chain (9 questions)
Business as an Agent of Change (7 questions)

Responses will be rated on a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the top score. If no efforts are described or evidence given for a particular question, the score will be 0. Some questions will be weighted more heavily than others. For some questions, you will be asked to provide supporting documentation. All information will be treated confidentially.

If you need to revisit this form, for example to get more information, you will be able to save your responses and re-start the questionnaire.

If you have any queries, email us at [email protected]

Company Ethos

Business Operations & Value Chain

Business as an Agent of Change