Sustainability

We build that relationship with customers through trust, fairness, respect, honor, innovation, and harmony serving beyond expectations and satisfaction.

It has been observed by our company the three pillars of Corporate Sustainability. We make sure that our corporate sustainability is with the approach of conducting business that creates sustainable, long-term shareholder, employee, consumer and societal value by pursuing responsible environmental, social, economic or governance strategies. It has been named by our company as a key priority moving forward. Our investors are growing concerned who seek not only economic profit but also social good. Our company can improve and develop environmental sustainability by focusing on reducing carbon footprints, package waste, water usage, wasteful practices, and by using recycled or reused materials.

Our company’s strategy and actions in reference to sustainability is to reduce adverse environmental and social impacts resulting from business operations. So, our plan with sustainability in our business are improving energy management with alternative power sources, deploying infrastructure that reduces wasteful practices, enabling sustainable development by assessing risks and improving resiliency while adhering to external regulations and development goals, and operating dynamic and efficient supply chains to empower a circular economy, encourage reuse, design out waste, promote sustainable consumption and protect the environment.

Why is sustainability in business important?

We’re doing business in an unpredictable world. Climate change, dwindling natural resources, and ever-increasing demands on our energy and food supply are disrupting business operations and supply chains in unexpected ways. It’s more important than ever for private and public organizations to fundamentally rethink the way they function. Transforming into a successful sustainable business requires new levels of resilience and agility, rooted in responsible practices that preserve our planet.

Sustainability is a business imperative and should be core to the strategy and operations of every business.

To safeguard our planet and our future, companies need to drive decarbonization, meet environmental regulatory requirements and compliance deadlines, and improve resource consumption. Those paving the way in sustainable business practices are embracing new business models to win customers, increase brand loyalty and uncover new opportunities to lower costs.

The reasons for this are both ethical and financial:

  • Employees are increasingly looking for mission-driven, purpose-led employers who care about the planet when deciding where to work. 71% of employees and employment seekers say that environmentally sustainable companies are more attractive employers.
  • Consumers are willing to pay a premium for goods from brands that are environmentally responsible. 80% of consumers indicate sustainability is important to them.
  • Governments, investors, employees and customers are demanding new levels of enterprise accountability, including action to address climate change.
  • Many of the world’s top economies have or are developing corporate disclosure requirements around environmental impact, driving businesses to curb GHG emissions.
  • The rise of ESG investment criteria and sustainable investing means that a sustainable business is inherently more attractive to the rising numbers of responsible investors. Investment in ESG assets may reach USD 53 trillion by 2025, representing over a third of global assets.

Benefits of sustainability in business

Companies that conscientiously integrate sustainable practices into their operations are seeing valuable business benefits. These include:

Competitive advantage
55% of consumers say environmental responsibility is very or extremely important when choosing a brand. Being known as a sustainable business can improve your brand awareness and help you attract consumers that are favorably predisposed to companies actively engaged in sustainable practices.
Investor appeal
In 2021, four out of five personal investors plan to act on sustainability or social responsibility factors in the following 12 months.
Compliance with regulatory requirements
Governments will continue to expand regulations and corporate SDGs. Stay ahead of the curve by implementing sustainable solutions early on to meet these new regulatory requirements and continually capture, measure, benchmark and report on ESG performance.
Increased longevity of transformation investments
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation in most companies. If that transformation is sustainable, you’re building a more resilient business that is ready for disruption and new opportunities.
Talent acquisition
Employees seeking purpose-driven employment want to work for sustainable and socially responsible companies. By building a reputation as a sustainable business, you can attract and retain the right employees for your company.
Revenue growth
By implementing sustainable practices that reduce resource consumption and optimize operational efficiencies, today’s change agents become tomorrow’s winners as they improve their bottom line. While efforts that have greater overall impact may be more costly to implement at the outset, the long-term gains will justify the investment.

How to create a sustainable strategy

Early leaders in enterprise sustainability applied digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) data, blockchain and hybrid cloud to help operationalize sustainability at scale. In the process, many are uncovering opportunities to increase efficiencies while creating more motivated, inspired employees and more satisfied, loyal customers. The key to a successful sustainability strategy is to balance environmental drivers with key differentiators and market demands.

Step one to creating a sustainable strategy is to ensure stakeholders have a clear and agreed-upon vision for the future state of the business. This might require outside help to get everyone on the same page. IBM Garage™ for sustainability experts can help your organization identify top challenges and opportunities, prioritize critical actions and measure outcomes against sustainability and business goals to realize results in weeks instead of months.

Next, follow a timebound framework approach to implementing the sustainable vision across every aspect of your organization. Document everything in an environmental management system with defined roles, responsibilities and accountability.

Finally, start with concrete initiatives that can generate tangible, measurable results and show value. This will demonstrate the value of sustainability in business to obtain more buy-in, create momentum, and scale.

Challenges with sustainability in business

There are several challenges to overcome in the pursuit of becoming a truly sustainable business:
Customer readiness
While the mindset around sustainability is shifting, no business can afford to be left behind, and few can financially afford to be too far ahead of the appetite for sustainable offerings. Co-creating a sustainable future requires a deep understanding of your customers and having partners with the right relationships and ecosystems to bring them along on the journey.
Cost
Implementing sustainable business practices typically requires higher upfront investments. In the short term, it will often be cheaper to stick with the status quo. Some organizations will need help building an investment case to show how immediate investment will result in more durable profitability over the long run.
Corporate sustainability areas

There are five key focus areas to plan a resilient and profitable path forward:

Climate risk management and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting.

The past decade has had the largest natural disaster impact on record. Organizations must factor the impact of climate change, which is causing extreme weather and climate events, into their business operations in a scalable and repeatable manner. Prepare for disruption with solutions that bring together multiple data sources, including proprietary, third-party, geospatial, weather and IoT data, with advanced analytics. Predict and plan for critical weather events to enable sustainable development and ensure business continuity. Reduce the operational costs and complexity of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) compliance and reporting.

Systemic inertia
While sustainability is an important goal, it often isn’t seen as more important than other key priorities that may provide benefits sooner. Many businesses plan in ten-year increments, so while a 2050 commitment is good, it often isn’t enough to drive sufficient action in this decade, from a planning standpoint. It comes back to reframing risks as opportunities and building the case that acting on sustainability now is necessary to achieve future sustainability in business.
Lack of tools, insights and expertise
Being unprepared to develop a corporate sustainability vision, strategy and framework is a monumental risk. Companies may lack the ability to implement sustainable solutions or even know where to start. Sustainability in business is evolving and so are the answers. Every business needs an ecosystem of innovation partners to help them reinvent the world and create a sustainable future.
Revenue growth
By implementing sustainable practices that reduce resource consumption and optimize operational efficiencies, today’s change agents become tomorrow’s winners as they improve their bottom line. While efforts that have greater overall impact may be more costly to implement at the outset, the long-term gains will justify the investment.
Resilient infrastructure and intelligent operations
Global challenges of climate change and environmental degradation, security, privacy and resource management require businesses to ensure their infrastructure is designed and managed with resiliency in mind. By using intelligent asset management, monitoring and predictive maintenance, organizations can extend the life of assets, reduce downtime and maintenance costs, optimize maintenance, repair and operations inventories, reduce CO2 emissions and eliminate waste. This will help them deliver against Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals with profitability.
Sustainable supply chains and circularity
Consumers are becoming more concerned about the traceability of the goods they purchase, and supply chain leaders are looking to invest in circular economies that encourage reuse. Blockchain solutions can provide greater supply chain visibility with up-to-the-minute inventory views and performance insights that help build trust and transparency, assuring authenticity from origin to consumption while reducing waste and lowering cost to serve. Tackle complex Scope 3 emissions challenges by establishing product provenance and minimize logistics-related emissions by optimizing fulfillment and delivery with advanced AI.
Electrification, energy and emissions reduction

Enabling clean electrification at scale will require leaders to come together in new ways to rethink how electrical systems operate and their role in a net-zero GHG emissions are often measured in carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent economy. Drive the transformation to decarbonization by enhancing grid efficiency, safety, reliability and resilience with intelligent asset management for energy and utilities. By implementing smart metering to better understand actual resource usage, you can keep critical assets and resources operating at maximum efficiency, improve equipment operations, lower costs and enhance services through automation.

Sustainability strategy
Companies must embed sustainability into the fabric of their business to get the insights they need to operationalize at scale. This enables new business models and platforms to achieve sustainability goals, increase operational efficiencies, comply with regulatory requirements, expose innovation opportunities, and improve the customer experience while creating competitive advantage.
The future of sustainability in business

Insights from environmental data are changing business and societal behaviors, resulting in the emergence of sustainable enterprises. Thus, sustainability in business is a megatrend that will continue to profoundly affect companies’ competitiveness and even survival in the market. Leaders are looking to harness the power of data, AI and blockchain to manage climate and environmental risk, optimize asset performance and resource utilization, drive decarbonization and build more sustainable supply chains.

IBM® continues its own sustainability journey, including conservation and renewable energy procurement, CO2 emissions reduction, product and waste reuse and recycling, reduced water withdrawals and sustaining critical biodiversity. By driving continual improvements and setting new goals for environmental sustainability across its operations, IBM’s 30 years of environmental leadership can help you build sustainability solutions that are good for your business, your brand, and our planet.

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MINRETA Group of Companies

Rene M. Bautista

President and CEO

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Management Philosophy

We build that relationship with customers through trust, serving beyond expectations and satisfaction. Our company philosophy is based in the spirit of grounded “fairness, respect, honor, innovation, and harmony”. The Minreta Group is strongly committed to social, economic, and sociological development and safeguarding the global environment by conducting fair, just and upright corporate activities.

Thank you for visiting the homepage of Minreta Group the mother company of all Minreta Companies and its owned business franchise.

Minreta Companies were established in different years, starting in 2015 and on. In 2022 Minreta Group was established to improve the management and governance structure to improve the management, governance, marketing and services structure. Since its establishment, Minreta Group has been pursuing its projects, plans and responsibilities.

The history of Minreta Group began in October 2007, when Consolidated Marketing Systems, and import-export company, was first established and now it’s Minreta. The name MINRETA means “a coined word of three people’s names, Minda, Rene, and Taylor”, which conveys the dedication and determination of the founder Chairman Rene Bautista to contribute to his community and nation US and Philippines through business.

In February 2022, Minreta Group founded Minreta RCF Philippines which is now Minreta E-Mart an e-commerce business, which became the base for its entry into the retailing industry. BaristaBrew Café Fairview, a coffee franchise retailing coffee shop was established in September 2023 as part of the group. As Minreta Global Trade, LLC the mother company of the group, Minreta Companies have established themselves as a respected companies in their own different fields in the domestic and international business industry. Other companies such as Minreta Logistics and Minreta International Trading Inc., have grown into leading players in the logistics industry and import-export business.

Minreta Global Trade, LLC is committed to making Minreta Group of companies namely, Minreta International Trading Inc, Minreta E-Mart, BaristaBrew Café Fairview, and Minreta Logistics the world’s most competitive and comprehensive international trading, retailing, and logistics group, based on its excellent 17 years history. We will develop global sales competitiveness in the trading and logistics sector and retailing in the domestic sector. We will improve productivity and the customer network in the comprehensive trading and logistics sector as well as retailing in the domestic sector. For the franchise company in the coffee industry sector, we will strengthen cooperation with those vendors or suppliers, in the medical, dental, and laboratory products sector, e-commerce on house products sector, and retailing in the coffee sector, and air and ocean transport companies in the logistics sector and improve operational efficiency. Through these means, we will continue to improve and enhance the profitability of our companies.

Minreta Group will continue to expand shareholder-oriented policies and procedures, promote the business structure, and develop strategical plans of the group. We will also keep developing and improving management approach and transparency through continuous improvement of governance structure.

We, the members of Minreta Group, will put in our best efforts to ultimately improve the corporate value of our group of companies and shareholder value.

Employees of Minreta Group