Paine Schwartz Partners Releases Eighth Annual Sustainability Report

NEW YORK, May 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Paine Schwartz Partners ("Paine Schwartz"), a global leader in sustainable food chain investing, today announced the publication of its eighth Annual Sustainability Report, which highlights sustainability priorities and progress at the firm and its portfolio companies. The report can be viewed and downloaded on Paine Schwartz's website.

"Our 2025 Annual Sustainability Report details the progress we have made and continue to make as leaders, recognizing the direct linkages between investment value and sustainability, climate, nature, and communities," said Kevin Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer of Paine Schwartz. "We are now facing what NASA has termed 'the challenge of our generation' – food production shortages, agricultural ecosystem threats, nutritional deficiencies, and climate risks. Paine Schwartz has a history of leveraging our deep expertise in sustainable food chain investing to expand our portfolio and its work towards combatting these challenges. By embedding sustainability considerations throughout our investment lifecycle, we aim to identify and take action on real-world execution of sustainability and impact-related value creation."

Highlights from the report include:

• Detailed case studies from across the Paine Schwartz portfolio, outlining individual portfolio company sustainability value propositions, sustainability progress since investment, 2024 sustainability highlights, and specific outcomes from sustainability initiatives
• Quantified real world impacts attributable to each Paine Schwartz portfolio company leveraging the Sustainable Development Investments (SDI) taxonomy
• Robust year-over-year time-series data to track progress against environmental, human, and corporate KPIs across the portfolio
• An overview of Paine Schwartz's holistic sustainability ecosystem, which includes both internal and external elements, to serve the firm, portfolio companies, and investors in driving value through responsible investment
• Descriptions of new initiatives to advance Paine Schwartz's sustainability program including:
  • The development of portfolio company-specific Sustainability Data Insight Reports to provide data-driven suggestions for sustainability performance improvement, with 100% of portfolio companies in the process of implementing recommendations provided in 2024
  • A portfolio-wide climate and nature assessment to help better understand and quantify the potential risks and opportunities facing portfolio companies in these areas
  • Engagements with portfolio companies to support them in articulating and measuring their impact to help generate returns for investors
• Highlights from the third annual "No Obstacles: A Race for the Warriors" event to benefit Hope for the Warriors^®, a nonprofit supporting programs for service members, veterans, and military families, raising more than $2.5 million from this event over the last three years 
• Climate and nature disclosures aligned with recommendations from Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

About Paine Schwartz Partners

Paine Schwartz Partners is the largest private equity firm dedicated to sustainable food chain investing, with ~$6.5 billion of AUM and over 20 years of experience. The firm invests across specific segments of the food and agribusiness value chain, with a focus on two core investment themes: productivity and sustainability and health and wellness. Through its proactive, thesis-driven approach, the firm targets value-added and differentiated companies and makes primarily control buyout investments, with a smaller allocation to growth companies. For further information, please see www.paineschwartz.com.

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