Your challenge Last year Freshways wasted 11,000 tonnes of food across its store network. This reduced their profit by £300 million and significantly increased their carbon footprint. The majority of this waste is due to short life produce (like fresh fruit and veg) going off before they can sell it. Freshways want to become the leading supermarket in term of waste reduction, with the aim to eliminate it effectively by 2025. You will work as part of the PwC Consultancy team producing the initial assessment of Freshway’s problems and possible recommendations to improve their food waste footprint. In your teams, you will have to prepare a 3 minute presentation of your findings to the client that outlines: 1 2 3 What challenges is the client Consider what actions the Your key recommendation currently facing in relation client’s competitors are taking that the client should prioritise their food waste to reduce their waste to reduce their food waste Remember, you must also persuade them that your team would be the best consultancy firm to invest in to solve their problem. Employability Skills Toolkit 5 PwC