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.
Ranking: 23
Industry: Biotech
Mission: A biotechnology company that develops sustainable ingredients for hygiene, beauty, and fragrance markets. They use renewably-sourced carbon from plants to make custom molecules that create better, more effective products. Their ingredients are included in over 3,000 products from the world’s top brands, reaching more than 200 million consumers.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Innovation, Collaboration, Integrity
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“For sustainability to be a difference maker for everyone on our planet, including the planet itself, it has to be mainstream. It has to be something people naturally do, feel good about doing, and because it’s the first choice, not the alternative.” ― John Melo, CEO
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Fermentation is the clearest and most sustainable path to creating access to natural ingredients. Consumers are focusing more and more on sustainability and the health of the planet, and especially with the pandemic, desire products that are healthy for them. For instance, we fast-tracked the development of a hand sanitizer in early spring, then donated the first 20K to frontline workers in hospitals throughout California and New York state. In addition, our technology supports biodiversity through reduced land and aquatic life use in the development of sustainable alternatives to non-sustainable (animal, petrochemical or endangered plant-derived) ingredients, and in turn, creating greater sustainability in the health, wellness and beauty products that contain them.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
Our mission is to transform the acceleration of the world’s transition to sustainable consumption. Through biotechnology, we can build a healthier planet. Fermentation from sustainably sourced sugarcane can rapidly develop and produce an unlimited scale of ingredients we use every day for our health and wellbeing. We are dedicated to providing an infinite supply of sustainable, affordable, and healthy ingredients.
Ranking: 96
Industry: Food Production
Mission: An organic and gluten free pasta manufacturer making it easier for people to lead healthier lives and support sustainable farming practices. Their plant-based products are reducing emissions and conserving biodiversity, and their donations are helping to make healthy food accessible to all. Products are available in over 3,500 stores across North America.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Supportive, Aligned, Enthusiastic
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“Good with every bite.”
It’s a sound business practice to be sure; however, for us, it’s more than that. It helps to cement our commitment that with every move we make navigating the ups and downs of business, we remain true to our core values.
Chickapea was created to provide not just a better version of the food we love, but a GOOD one. And we take this very seriously. Our goal is to use our powers for good… good taste, good ingredients, and good care of our team, our community and our planet!
We want our customers to always trust that with every single bite they take of our delicious pastas they are doing themselves, their community, and their home good!
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Chickapea’s social responsibility efforts are growing right alongside our company’s growth. At our core, Chickapea is a force for good. Chickapea is not just benefiting those that consume our products, but those in the greatest need around the world, including our farmers, suppliers and employees.
WE CHARITY: Chickapea donates 3 cents from every box of pasta sold to WE Charity’s School Nutrition Program. We’re currently supporting a program in Los Rios, Ecuador that provides students with nutritious meals each day and education on proper nutrition. Our donations also fund a school garden and the construction of a kitchen and dining hall for the students and the wider community to come together to learn about agriculture and nutrition.
FOOD BANKS: Chickapea believes that everyone should have access to healthy food. Food banks across Canada and the US are feeding our most vulnerable populations, which are often in great need of nourishment, and unfortunately, the majority of food being donated to food banks is not very nutritious and doesn’t consider dietary restrictions. Chickapea provides a nutrient-dense, allergen-free option that’s familiar and simple to prepare. Each year, Chickapea donates several hundred pounds of pasta to food banks across North America.
CERTIFIED B CORPORATION: In 2019, Chickapea was recognized as a Best for the World B Corporation — ranking in the top 10% of all B Corps worldwide. This prestigious designation is given to organizations that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, legal accountability, and aspire to use the power of business to build a more inclusive and sustainable economy. Chickapea is proud of this certification and always strives to do better.
CHOOSING ORGANIC & PLANT-BASED: All Chickapea products are, and will continue to be, organic. By only choosing organic we are helping to eliminate soil and water contamination, preserve local wildlife — including honeybees — and conserve biodiversity. It also means keeping artificial food additives, irradiation, GMOs, synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers out of our bodies.
OUR PLANET: We’re proud to offer our products in recyclable boxes using recycled materials.
PLANT-BASED PROTEIN: By focusing on plant-based proteins we are minimizing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing freshwater consumption and using less landmass for more crop yield. In comparison, the emissions of beef are 250 times higher than chickpeas and lentils.
What is your company’s vision for the future?
A world where the foods we love most, love our bodies and our planet back.
Ranking: 18
Industry: Toys
Mission: A toy manufacturer that produces kids products for active play. Their wagons, tricycles, scooters, and ride-ons are made from safe and sustainable materials to ensure the well-being of the children who enjoy them and the workers who create them. Products are built to last, and have been enjoyed for over 100 years.
Ranking: 14
Industry: Food & Beverages
Mission: A wholesale food distribution company operating between manufacturers and retailers as a supply chain partner in the specialty, natural, organic, and fresh product marketplace. They’re spreading the word on healthy eating, sustainable living, and responsible business with integrity. Supporting a network of over 12,000 customers in more than 30,000 stores across North America.
Ranking: 21
Industry: Sustainable Investing
Mission: A renewable power and energy efficiency investor dedicated to climate change solutions. They aim to make climate-positive investments that reduce carbon emissions or increase resilience to climate change. Their investments have created over 140,000 jobs, annually avoiding 3.2 million metric tons of carbon and saving 3.4 billion gallons of water.
What 3 words best describe your company culture?
Collaborative, Service Oriented/Client Focused, Curious
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“In some respects, the parallels between the pandemic and climate change help clarify where and why we invest in climate solutions. Nature is profoundly powerful and completely indifferent to human desires. We can respect that or fight that. We choose to align our investments with nature.” — Jeff Eckel, Chairman & CEO
“In a world increasingly defined by climate change, better risk-adjusted returns will be achieved by investing on the right side of the climate change line.”— Jeff Eckel
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Hannon Armstrong is the first U.S. public company solely dedicated to investments in climate change solutions. Through the implementation of our investment strategy and conduct of our business operations, we embody a deep commitment to a sustainable and resilient future. Everything we do at Hannon Armstrong is focused on producing a positive impact on people and the planet. That’s what it means to be 100% focused on investing in climate change solutions. And thanks to our employees, clients, investors, and partners, we’re proud to be at the forefront of the transition to a resilient and climate-positive economy.
Our vision is that every investment should improve our climate future, which is why we require that all prospective investments are neutral to negative on incremental carbon emissions or have some other tangible environmental benefit, such as reducing water consumption. Based on decades of investment experience across multiple interest rate and business cycles, intermittent governmental support for reducing carbon emissions, and several “boom and bust” cycles of business expansions in clean energy markets, we have created a climate-positive investment thesis based on the following theories:
Our impact by numbers:
What is your company’s vision for the future?
Our vision is that every investment should improve our climate future.
Ranking: 66
Industry: Food
Mission: A catering company and specialty foods retailer that seeks sustainable approaches to food service. They support local suppliers, run on 100% renewable energy, practice responsible waste management, and utilize sustainable transit solutions. Operate 8 locations in the Portland community, preventing over 1,000 pounds of food waste from entering our landfills each week.
What quote best exemplifies your company?
“The continuous-improvement philosophy of the B Corp community has always melded so well with us, because everything we do is trying to get better — from being a better employer and a better community steward to making a better-tasting sandwich.”
How is your product or service having a positive social and/or environmental impact?
Since it was founded in 1979, Elephants Delicatessen has embraced three core values: excellence, unity, and sustainability. Our commitment to these values extends beyond our employees and customers to the larger Portland community, particularly our most vulnerable citizens. At the end of the night, each of our seven deli locations donates about 95 percent of their fresh food items to nearby non-profit partner organizations. Elephants’ catering department partners with about 30 organizations, by donating leftover food after events. Elephants has long been recognized as a champion of sustainable practices that reduce waste, and conserve energy. We invest in products that further this effort, including renewable energy sources, responsible waste management practices, and sustainable transit solutions. We also invest in the local economy: over 90 percent of our significant suppliers are located within 200 miles of Portland, keeping money and employment in the Pacific Northwest.
