Case Study: Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE Peet’s) achieves early ESEF compliance and streamlined reporting with Workiva

How Workiva Powered JDE Peet’s Inaugural Annual Report

JDE Peet’s — formed by the 2019 merger of Jacobs Douwe Egberts and Peet’s Coffee and listed on Euronext Amsterdam in 2020 — faced the task of producing its first 200+ page annual report and preparing early for the European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) mandate. The finance team struggled with manual Word and Excel workflows, frequent version-control errors, disparate reporting packs after the combination, and the technical requirements of XBRL tagging and XHTML output, all while working remotely during the pandemic.

JDE Peet’s extended its use of the Workiva platform to create a single source of truth, merge legacy reporting packs, automate linking and rounding, and implement XBRL tagging with Customer Success support — including XHTML conversion in the same workspace. The result was a fully compliant ESEF filing delivered ahead of schedule, greatly reduced risk and time spent on reconciliations, and confidence that future filings will be fast and repeatable.

Jacobs Douwe Egberts

Mikko Kansen

Global Accounting and Reporting Manager