AArete Partners with University to Eliminate Single Use Plastics While Improving Revenue

This is an AArete Higher Education Insight

Situation

AArete partnered with a major research university on a focused effort to review their primary pouring rights contract and identify strategies to bring both sustainability value and financial value including:

Remove single use plastics
Improve unit pricing
Enhance sponsorship dollars
Establish improved scholarship and other financial benefits

The focus was across all auxiliary and athletic enterprises across the University.

Approach

AArete combined their robust market intelligence with a team of supply market experts and industry consultants to execute a year-long strategy to renegotiate a third party contract while meeting critical sustainability goals. Combing this information with a proven approach, AArete was able to use a hands-on methodology to implement successful outcomes within the relationships.