RS Group has earned three environmental, social and governance (ESG) accolades this year: an improved 2024 CDP A List rating, a third consecutive EcoVadis Platinum medal and a second consecutive listing in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook.
The CDP A List rating places RS amongst the top 2% of disclosing companies. The third consecutive EcoVadis Platinum medal places RS in the top 1% of rated companies, and the second consecutive listing in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook places RS in the top 15% of companies in its industry.
CDP A List recognition
CDP is a global non-profit dedicated to helping stakeholders, ranging from small businesses to policymakers, take meaningful action to balance people, planet and profit. To this end, CDP runs an independent environmental disclosure system for companies, capital markets, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The data from its annual environmental disclosure report provides participating companies with a comprehensive understanding of their environmental dependencies, risks, impacts and opportunities, which ESG leaders use to inform core business decisions, secure capital, reduce risks, engage their value chains and boost efficiency.
CDP scored 22,777 companies in 2024 but gave just 2% of them “A”s. This year marks the second time RS made the CDP A List as well as an improvement from its previous score of A-.
“Being one of a select few global companies to reach the CDP A List is a testament to the hard work of all our teams have invested in decarbonizing our business and supply chain and offering our customers more sustainable products and service solutions,” says Andrea Barrett, vice president of social responsibility and sustainability at RS Group. ‘‘But that work doesn’t stop here! We’re continuing to accelerate our 2030 ESG action plan to protect our people and the planet, support our sustainable growth, and create more long-term value for all our stakeholders.’’
Barrett also highlighted activities that contributed to the 2024 CDP A List rating:
- Providing customers with more than 30,000 and growing sustainable product alternatives
- Making distribution sites more automated, energy efficient and sustainable, reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 58% since 2019/20.
- Cutting the distance products travel by sourcing, storing and shipping closer to customers and suppliers, switching to less carbon intensive modalities, and, in turn, reducing Scope 3 product transport emissions by 26% since 2019/20.
EcoVadis recognition
EcoVadis is an independent provider of global business-to-business sustainability ratings, used to screen and select strategic procurement partners. The EcoVadis assessment focuses on 21 sustainability criteria that are grouped into four themes — environment, labor and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement — and is used to measure the quality of a company’s sustainability management system through its policies, actions, and results.
This year, RS Group earned a third consecutive Platinum EcoVadis medal. The 2024 medal honor RS Group’s continued commitment to environmental sustainability, labor conditions and human rights, and sustainable procurement.
S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook recognition
RS Group also earned a second consecutive listing in the 2025 S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook based on S&P Global’s Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA), an annual evaluation of companies’ sustainability practices that reports on an industry-specific economic, environmental and social criteria relevant to both a growing number of sustainability-centric investors and companies’ financial success.
“We are very proud to have earned such highly regarded ESG ratings,” Barrett says. “These achievements demonstrate the hard work of teams across every area of our business who are committed to delivering value-generating initiatives that positively impact our people, customers, suppliers, shareholders, and communities as we strive to make amazing happen for a better world.”
