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A selection of recent feedback from organisations we have worked with. Ratings and comments are as received.
Zainudin Azhari
We brought Verdua in to do the Baseline Review before committing to a larger programme. Honestly, it was worth it just to understand where we actually stood. The gap note was clear and didn't oversell the problem — it just laid things out plainly. We've since moved ahead with the roadmap engagement.
Lee Yin Fong
The Roadmap engagement took slightly longer than the original estimate — five weeks rather than four — but the output was solid. The reporting framework they produced is something our finance and operations teams can actually use. The leadership workshop was useful for getting everyone on the same page about what we were committing to.
Siti Rohani
I was a bit sceptical at first — I've dealt with consultants who produce impressive decks that gather dust. Verdua were different. They kept asking whether the measures we were setting were ones we could actually track. The retainer arrangement gave us a useful rhythm without feeling like we were just burning budget between sessions.
Mohammad Hafiz
We're a small company and I was worried we'd be wasting time and money on ESG work that wasn't really built for our size. The Baseline Review was genuinely sized for us. Two weeks, one document, one conversation. We came out of it knowing exactly where to focus first — which was energy use and supplier questions from our export customers.
Priya Letchimi
Good advisory work, particularly the materiality review that helped us figure out what actually mattered for our industry. My one comment is that the draft framework had more detail than we initially needed — we had to simplify it a bit before presenting to our board. That said, it was thorough and well-structured and Nadia was helpful when we had follow-up questions.
Tan Kee Seng
We needed a basic ESG picture before our annual review with a key institutional partner. The Baseline Review covered exactly what we needed and the summary was clear enough to share directly with our partner's procurement team. Three weeks, reasonable cost, exactly what it said on the brief.
Closer look at selected engagements
Three engagements described with the client's permission. Details have been generalised to preserve commercial confidentiality.
Mid-sized food manufacturer, Selangor
A family-owned food processing firm with around 80 employees was receiving increasingly frequent ESG questionnaires from major retail customers. They had no formal sustainability data and were unsure how to respond accurately without overstating their position.
Verdua conducted a Baseline Review over two and a half weeks, working from utility bills, procurement records and production data. We mapped the firm's footprint across energy, water and waste, and identified the specific areas their customers were asking about.
The client received a clear summary document they could share with customers, alongside a gap note identifying three data areas to improve over the following year. The firm described the report as "the first time we felt we could answer ESG questions honestly."
Professional services firm preparing first sustainability report, KL
A mid-sized professional services company wanted to publish its first structured ESG report ahead of a major client renewal. Senior leadership had varying views on what the report should cover and how ambitious it should be.
The Roadmap & Framework engagement included a materiality workshop that brought leadership together on priority topics, followed by a reporting framework designed for their specific situation. The leadership workshop helped surface and resolve internal disagreements about scope.
The client published its first sustainability section in its annual review six months after the engagement, using the framework we developed with minor adjustments. The firm noted that the workshop had been more useful than expected in aligning their executive team.
Logistics and distribution company, ongoing programme, Klang Valley
A logistics firm had completed an ESG baseline the prior year (with a different provider) but found the resulting document hard to operationalise. Their sustainability committee was meeting irregularly and progress had stalled.
Verdua took on a four-month retainer to support the sustainability committee with a structured review cadence, updated measures and clearer internal reporting. We did not redo the baseline but helped the team work with what they had and identify where the prior work needed updating.
By the end of the retainer, the committee was meeting monthly on a defined agenda, three of four priority measures were being tracked consistently, and a short internal progress report was in circulation quarterly. The client extended the retainer for a further three months on a narrower brief.
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