Valvoline assesses climate risk across 2,100+ locations with Beehive

Valvoline Inc. is a leader in automotive preventive maintenance, with more than 2,100 company-owned and franchised service centers across the U.S. and Canada. In 2025, the team faced a dual mandate: prepare for compliance with California's new climate risk disclosure law, SB 261, and conduct a meaningful physical risk assessment across its entire footprint.

But with a lean enterprise ESG and sustainability team, limited resources, and little in-house climate-modeling expertise, the challenge was clear. Valvoline needed to:

• Understand exposure to wildfires, flooding, cyclones, and extreme heat across thousands of sites
• Identify which risks were most material to report under TCFD and IFRS S2
• Draft a credible climate risk report on an accelerated timeline

Valvoline turned to Beehive to power its climate risk assessment and disclosures. On Beehive's platform, the team was able to:

• Instantly assess physical climate risk across all 2,100+ stores with Beehive's Physical Risk module — including high-resolution data on wildfires, flooding, cyclones, and extreme heat.
• Use the Transition Risk module to explore which risks and regulations were most relevant, and what to include in their TCFD disclosures.
• Draft their climate risk report with Beehive's AI-powered IFRS S2 reporting module — benchmarking disclosures against peers and pulling language aligned with the latest regulatory expectations.

But what stood out most was how easy it all was.

With Beehive, Valvoline published a thorough, data-driven climate risk report in its 2024 Impact Report — including detailed disclosures of physical risks such as:

Key outcomes included:

• 2,100+ locations assessed in one day — not months
• Clear, defensible risk disclosures under SB 261 and TCFD
• Insights shared across stakeholders — from the leadership team to store operations
• Cost savings by avoiding the per-location pricing of other climate risk platforms

Valvoline considered other vendors, but most charged per site — driving costs sky-high — or didn't offer robust enough reporting or transparency into their risk models. Ashley also considered building the assessment in-house with support from the internal BI team, but given the demands on that team to support the growth of the business, getting the information within a realistic timeline would have been difficult. Beehive offered enterprise-grade data, unlimited coverage, and a true partnership.