Nutrien SWOT and PESTLE Analysis

Strength

1. Best-positioned Company in the Agricultural Sector: As the largest provider of crop inputs and services of the world, Nutrien plays a very important role in assisting growers with increasing their food production sustainably. In its quest for helping out its customers with respect to earning more profits, being more productive and adopting sustainable methods, the company has established a good position with the help of its product portfolio, supply chain, data, technology and strength of its people. In addition to this, Nutrien is involved in the production and distribution of 25 million tonnes of potash worldwide. Having a long-term outlook as well as a strong commitment towards its stakeholders, the company addresses the prioritization of various economic, environmental and social aspects of business. With the help of its integrated portfolio’s scale and diversity, Nutrien has been successful in providing a stable base for earnings, multiple growth avenues and several opportunities to return capital to its shareholders.

2. Strong and growing global footprint as the leading integrated Ag solutions provider: With a focus for generating value and growth as well as to be the leading global integrated Ag Solutions provider, Nutrien was established with an extraordinary platform for delivering long-term value to all the stakeholders involved. To provide industry-leading Ag Solutions, the company operates and makes huge investments in 14 countries. It has a wide base of over 22,000 employees and more than 500,000 grower accounts worldwide. Nutrien is renowned for having the world’s premier Ag Retail network, and being the supplier of latest products, services and technology to the growers. Due to its highest-quality and lowest-cost production assets, it is known as the largest producer of fertilizers across the globe. Moreover, with the aid of its extensive supply chain, Nutrien is successfully able to deliver its products to the market efficiently.

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Environmental

1. Extreme weather events becoming more frequent, severe and difficult to predict: It has become extremely difficult to predict the weather patterns in recent times, in perspective of severe inclemency and harsh weather conditions. Pressure has been mounting on corporations to mitigate these abrupt unaccounted changes in weather conditions. Nutrien and its growers have been taking measures with societal decarbonization goals in mind, in order to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. According to the investors and other stakeholders of Nutrien, climate change has been identified as the top ESG risk. To eradicate and mitigate the harmful impacts of this threat, Nutrien is putting forward its best foot forward towards emission reductions as well as increasing efficiency and playing a significant role in spreading awareness and making the farmers adapt to these changing events.

2. Investments in sustainable strategies including alliances, technologies and products: Nutrien has prioritized its investment goals based on sustainability into making leading innovations, reducing environmental footprints and maintaining CSR activities. In alignment with these priorities, the company has come up with products like Environmentally Smart Nitrogen (ESN), data-driven digital tools and new ag-biological products. Moreover, it has also invested in improving its abilities to provide agronomic advice and real-time sustainable solutions, for which Nutrien has recently acquired Waypoint and Agrible. Nutrien strives to be the leader in promoting sustainable agriculture, in pursuit of which the company has invested in its production facilities including nitrogen emission controls, mining automation, and diesel exhaust fluid capacity expansions that help in lowering vehicle emissions. It plans to integrate a climate-smart agriculture strategy into the long-term plans of its business units by leveraging investments across the value chain.

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