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Soft drinks start-up announces ‘commercially compassionate’ share model giving away 51% of business to support good causes

Stuart Mitchell

Bristol-based soft drinks company, Counter Culture Drinks has recently announced its first two not-for-profit shareholders as part of an innovative operating model that will see 51% of the business and 5% of total sales allocated to supporting social and environmental causes. Driven by a goal to raise at least £1 million for non-profit organisations through their business endeavours, the founders of the B Corp pending kombucha company have created what they call ‘commercially compassionate’ (CC) shares to be allocated to charities and civil society organisations that share its values and…

Reaching $1 Million in Awarded Funding, the Human Rights Campaign and SHOWTIME® Announce the Fifth Year of QUEER TO STAY an LGBTQ+ Small-Business Preservation Initiative

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, and SHOWTIME are launching the fifth year of “Queer to Stay: An LGBTQ+ Business Preservation Initiative.” This program is designed to support LGBTQ+ small businesses, especially those owned by and designed for LGBTQ+ people of color, women and the transgender community. Applications to participate this year open on May 29, 2024 and will run through August 31, 2024. The Queer to Stay initiative launched in June 2020, awarding 10 LGBTQ+ small businesses…

edie launches new business guide on the circular economy

Stuart Mitchell

edie has published an updated guide on the circular economy, detailing all the key challenges and opportunities that businesses will need to explore when looking to boost resource efficiency. Municipal waste is on course to increase by more than 66% in volume, leading to direct costs of around $360bn unless more can be done to transition to a circular economy. The United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Global Waste Management Outlook 2024 (GWMO 2024) report highlights that closed-loop models are not just a global imperative for the planet, but could provide…

Leadership Story Lab Publishes Ranking of 30 B Corp Family Businesses

Stuart Mitchell

Edelman Barometer shows that trust in family businesses has been waning over the last few years, dropping six points in their 2022 report. As corporate citizenship has developed, consumers expect companies to espouse and demonstrate their commitments to causes like the environment, just supply chains, and social issues. Family businesses often have these values ingrained in them from their founding, yet it appears many are failing to communicate their long standing commitments.  To understand how well family businesses are communicating their values, Leadership Story Lab (LSL), a storytelling coaching, consulting…

German businesses are taking a clear stand for diversity, openness and tolerance

Stuart Mitchell

“We stand for values” is the name under which more than 30 leading and distinguished German companies have joined forces to form an alliance for diversity, openness and tolerance. It includes numerous DAX companies, family-owned businesses, German SMEs and start-ups. The initiative is also backed by the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB). In their first joint campaign, the companies are calling on their combined 1.7 million employees to take part in the upcoming European elections and engaging in numerous activities to highlight the…