SLR Consulting adds SB&CO to growing UK presence

SB&CO has change into the most recent member of the SLR community. The deal concluded in late January.

With over 2,000 workers, serving purchasers throughout greater than 20 international locations globally, SLR Consulting is a worldwide sustainability consultancy headquartered within the UK. Since receiving backing from monetary investor Ares Capital Administration, the agency has been quickly upscaling its capability through recruitment campaigns, and a stream of acquisitions.

Based by Nigel Salter and Penny Baxter, SB&CO is a consultancy working throughout sustainability technique, technical advisory and sustainability communications. Constructing on greater than 50 years of mixed management in sustainable enterprise and company accountability, the agency now hosts a various staff of specialists who mix in‑depth strategic, technical and communications capabilities.

This acquisition considerably strengthens SLR’s capability to assist purchasers with built-in sustainability options. SB&CO’s expertise working with senior leaders on sustainability technique, together with their confirmed capabilities in stakeholder engagement and communications, bolsters SLR’s current experience to assist purchasers throughout their total sustainability journey, from technique and ambition setting via to implementation.

It additionally reinforces SLR’s dedication to ‘Making Sustainability Occur’ and displays a shared imaginative and prescient for creating significant affect. In accordance to a launch from the companies, over the approaching months, they are going to be “bringing our groups collectively, combining our complementary abilities, and creating new alternatives to assist organisations speed up their sustainability ambitions.”

Salter and Baxter mentioned of the information, “We’re delighted to be a part of forces with SLR. We see SLR as being completely suited to serve world purchasers’ wants throughout the total spectrum of sustainability challenges – and the thought of serving to to construct this pureplay world sustainability supply matches the ambitions of ourselves and our improbable staff.”