Ranking: 110
Industry: Food & Beverage
Mission: An Oregon-based winery with a commitment to biodynamic farming and locally sourced ingredients. They produce quality and affordable wine, while also focusing on the health of the land and community. Boosting biodiversity in their region while bottling 50 different wines, they produce more Riesling than any winery in America.
Ranking: 105
Industry: Food & Beverages
Mission: The world’s first FairChain coffee supplier that aims to restore the supply chain to a 50/50 balance between coffee producers and coffee drinkers. Their model is helping countries to become less dependent on development aid. They collaborate directly with 658 coffee farmers, helping them to work towards a living income.
Ranking: 11
Industry: Consumer Goods
Mission: A multinational consumer goods company that meets everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene, and personal care. Using responaible sourcing and manufacturing, they aim to make sustainable living commonplace by appealing to more consumers with sustainable, purpose-led brands. Reaching 2.5 billion people each day with more than 400 brands bought in 190 countries.
Ranking: 44
Industry: Renewable Energy
Mission: A Vermont-based solar provider aiming to make clean, renewable energy simple and affordable. They offer numerous options for residential, commercial, and community solar, and have an ultimate goal to power the entire state with clean energy. Have thus far helped over 8,000 homes, businesses and schools go solar.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Caring, Intentional, Joyful
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“SunCommon is a market-solution to climate change — organized as a Benefit Corporation and certified as B Corp to use the power of our business for good.”
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
SunCommon is the market-leading provider of residential, community and commercial solar in Vermont and New York’s Hudson Valley. We delight our customers with clean energy solutions to their power, heating and transportation needs while saving them money as we together address the climate crisis.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
Our human existence on Earth is powered by clean, safe, renewable energy from infrastructure built in our communities by local workers from diverse backgrounds who earn good wages and great benefits, employed by businesses that care.
Ranking: 16
Industry: Food & Beverage
Mission: A purveyor of wines and spirits that strives for the perfect relationship between land, climate and grape. Through sustainable farming practices, they have eliminated the need for synthetic, fossil fuel-based chemicals in their vineyards and divert 98.21% of all their waste from landfills. Wines are available in more than 50 countries.
Ranking: 81
Industry: Environmental Technology
Mission: Globally offering sustainability as a service with patent-protected programs that deliver environmental impact and bottom-line results. They help companies meet sustainability goals while increasing brand value and customer loyalty, making it easy for businesses to do well by doing good. On pace to offset over 30 million metric tons of carbon by 2025.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Driven, Collaborative, Positive
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“Our purpose is to make sustainability truly convenient, so it’s easy for people and businesses to do the right thing.” — Pete Davis, CEO of GreenPrint
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Purpose sits at the center of our business. In our mission to intertwine business value with positive environmental impact, we naturally empower individuals in the stakeholder groups we serve to create larger change. Our four areas of focus (climate change, climate justice, circular economy, diversity & inclusion) recognize the crucial connection between the planet and people, and the power of small actions to cause meaningful impact.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
We believe in preserving our planet by empowering its people. Our purpose is to create positive change through innovative thinking and solutions so businesses can do well by doing good. Small actions can have a great impact, and we’re here to ensure that every business can be a part of a brighter future.
Ranking: 7
Industry: Food Production
Mission: An ice cream manufacturer that uses high-quality ingredients from family farmers who do not treat their cows with synthetic hormones. They have additionally established a foundation that supports grassroots businesses that help their communities. Seeking to meet human needs and eliminate injustices while producing nearly 1 million pints of ice cream per day.
Ranking: 27
Industry: Investment Management
Mission: Arowana is an award winning global B Corporation that has a number of operating companies and investments, including in electric vehicles, renewable energy, vocational education, technology and software venture capital, and impact asset management.They invest in, and operate enterprises that serve a real purpose–working directly with companies that have a positive impact on all stakeholders. They do not critique from the sidelines, nor do they disengage from the businesses they invest in when the going gets tough. Instead, they tackle challenges alongside founders and management teams, with an understanding that growth follows a non-linear trajectory.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Humility, Solidarity, Tenacity
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
We have a long-term commitment to building strong, sustainable businesses that will have a positive impact on economies, industries, and the people they employ.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
We grow people, companies, and value.
Ranking: 61
Industry: Beauty
Mission: A family owned and operated distributor comprising 12 brands within the premium beauty field in Sweden. They offer innovative products that provide fast visible results and appeal to the quality-conscious consumer. Sustainability has been an important ingredient in their products, and they are on track to becoming carbon neutral by 2030.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
listening, Transparent, Inclusive
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
The company is involved in five specific areas were we support with cash donations. The company has created something we call Kraft Group goodwill day, were the company pay full salary for staff to join a project of their idea. The staff must spend their time on projects that serve humanity, society or earth. We have on staff people with special needs, and we strongly support the right to be different. We have staff who are involved in The B Corp movement on a Scandinavian level (pro bono) to help the organization to grow, and make a difference.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
The company is now working on VISION 2045, were we during the next 25 years will be the most important and best distributor for Sweden. By doing so we secure more donations, we can hire more staff that will have a good working place. We are net Zero not later than 2030, but aim to be net zero earlier. We can be a change maker, talk to politicians, influencers, through media and make a difference. The company aims to be the change….
Ranking: 40
Industry: Medical Devices
Mission: A medical technology company transforming the inpatient experience with PIVO™, a breakthrough needle-free blood collection device. They are establishing a new standard of care for inpatient blood draws by reducing the pain, risks, and inefficiencies of existing practices. Seeking to bring compassion to the hospital through a safer workplace for practitioners and more efficient lab collections.
