Turning double materiality into a strategic edge for Specsavers
The big challenge
Specsavers is navigating a fast-moving sustainability landscape - where regulation is tightening, expectations are rising, and businesses are under real pressure to prove impact, not just intent.
With CSRD raising the bar on transparency and accountability, the challenge wasn’t just to comply, but to cut through the noise and land on what actually matters. The risk? Getting stuck in complexity and missing the opportunity to turn sustainability into something commercially meaningful.
The big opportunities
We’re strong believers that, when done right, a Double Materiality Assessment isn’t just a box-ticking exercise - it’s a chance to get ahead.
For Specsavers, it was an opportunity to build a clearer picture of the forces shaping the business, and reveal where value could be created, not just protected. By zooming out and looking across its entire value chain, Specsavers could start to prioritise with intent - focusing time, investment and energy where it will really shift the dial on future resilience.
Our people-shaped support
We worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Specsavers to turn a complex, technical process into something practical, engaging and genuinely useful.
We combined deep analysis with hands-on collaboration, using insights gained from engaging hundreds of stakeholders across the value chain, before helping the Specsavers team make sense of the detail, turning it into decisions they could act on. No copy & paste outputs - just clear thinking, co-created with the people who need to own it.
The big impact
Specsavers now has a CSRD-ready DMA that does more than just satisfy regulation - it gives the business clarity, confidence and direction.
Senior teams are better equipped to make informed decisions, sustainability is more closely tied to commercial strategy, and new opportunities for innovation are starting to surface. In short, it’s a stronger, more resilient business - built to keep moving forward, not just keep up.
“Bioregional transformed our Double Materiality Assessment from a reporting requirement into a source of real strategic insight, revealing the impacts, risks and opportunities that matter most across our entire value chain. The outcome is a CSRD-compliant process that strengthens resilience, unlocks innovation and enables more confident, credible decision-making.”
Jen Wakely
Global ESG Reporting Lead, Specsavers
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