Tag: B Corp

Coutts achieves B Corp™ status

Stuart Mitchell

B Corps are businesses that balance both purpose and profit. They are legally responsible for benefiting customers, workers, communities and the planet while delivering profit. Their long-term aim is to build a more inclusive and sustainable economy. Coutts is the largest private bank and wealth manager in the UK to achieve B Corp status and has committed to continue to focus on and improve its responsible business agenda whilst also using the certification to inspire and encourage clients and businesses on their own sustainable business journeys. Peter Flavel, Coutts CEO,…

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Anthesis Proud to be a B Corp

Stuart Mitchell

Anthesis, the largest group of dedicated sustainability professionals globally, and one of the UK’s fastest-growing private companies has achieved B Corp status, it was announced on a letter on their website by Paul Crewe, Executive Director & Chief Sustainability Officer, Anthesis Group. A Letter from our Chief Sustainability Officer I am very proud to announce that Anthesis Group is now a fully certified B Corporation®, committed to meeting the highest verified standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and legal accountability. This certification is a perfect fit for us; B…

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Riverford joins B Corp as desire for ethical business grows

Stuart Mitchell

Organic veg box company Riverford has become the second highest-scoring food company in the UK* to be certified as B Corp thanks to its focus on worker wellbeing through employee ownership. Riverford scored 124.6 out of 200 in its first B Corp assessment, with the second highest score of all certified UK food companies, behind ethical chocolate brand Divine Chocolate. In total, there are 307 certified B Corp businesses in the UK across a wide variety of sectors. Riverford’s highest score was in the ‘Workers’ section of the assessment where…

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Can Ads Help Make the World a Better Place? New Purpose-driven Advertising Platform, Jukko, Says ‘Yes’

Stuart Mitchell

Global Gaming Initiative (GGI) is being recognized today by a global business-ethics organization for two top “Best In The World” awards for being a changemaker and advocate for strong communities. Global Gaming Initiative remains one of the premier “games for good” publishers, providing tools and services for developers to produce and monetize games for social good. Salt Lake City-based Jukko, an outgrowth of GGI, is a programmatic advertising network that creates and executes mobile ads for purpose-driven organizations who support conscious capitalism, defined by the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development…

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Danone Waters of America, Importer & Distributor of evian® Natural Spring Water in the U.S. and Canada, Becomes a Certified B Corporation® and Announces Reincorporation as a Public Benefit Corporation

Stuart Mitchell

Danone Waters of America, the U.S. and Canadian importer and distributor of evian® natural spring water, Badoit® sparkling natural mineral water and Volvic® natural spring water, announces today that the company has achieved B Corp™ Certification and is now a public benefit corporation (PBC). Achieving B Corp Certification and incorporating as a PBC represent the company’s commitment to meeting high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability. “We are proud to have confirmed through the rigorous assessment of the ways we are already using business as a force…

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