Under the partnership, the firm's laptops can be environmentally repurposed once retired
Buddle Findlay has joined up with Quadrent on its Green Lease initiative.
Through the Green Lease, businesses are able to fund tech purchases under a lease and then return the devices to Quadrent at the end of their lifecycles. Thus, the partnership enables Buddle Findlay to environmentally repurpose, recycle or redistribute laptops following their retirement from corporate use at the end of the lease term.
“This arrangement will see Buddle Findlay’s high quality, end-of-lease laptops donated to charitable organisations like, Te Rourou, Vodafone Aotearoa Foundation’s Toitū te Toki programme, that will then distribute the devices to New Zealand schools in need”, the firm said.
Quadrent CEO Martyn Masterson said that Buddle Findlay “is a great example of how organisations are rethinking how they can reuse their technology as part of a circular economy to deliver a lasting impact on young kiwis, by providing the digital access that they need”.
“Buddle Findlay and Quadrent have been working together since 2014, when we helped migrate their technology procurement to a leasing model, followed by a transition to a wholly mobile laptop fleet”, Masterson explained. “I am delighted to have them come onboard as one of New Zealand’s early adopters to our Quadrent Green Lease”.
Masterton added that that the Quadrent Green Lease creates “ ‘a river of digital devices’ into the future”.
“Collaborating at this level with our clients means that we can together continually address the digital access problem over the medium to long-term. It also provides peace of mind to our clients, today, that their technology is being well managed throughout its lifecycle inside a full range of cybersecurity and ESG policies”, Masterson said.
According to chief executive Philip Maitland, the firm is “committed to building a more sustainable and equitable community in Aotearoa New Zealand, in particular through our focus on child and rangatahi wellbeing”.
“As Te Rourou Vodafone Aotearoa Foundation is a valued pro bono client of ours, we're pleased to be extending our partnership with them in this unique initiative, to identify the digital inclusion projects that will receive our donated laptops, providing children in need greater access to digital technology”, he explained. “Our central value proposition is 'exceptional outcomes through collaboration'. Therefore, it is great to have a supplier walking this journey with us, as we increasingly integrate environmental considerations into our day-to-day operations and contracts”.
