Almost 2,000 businesses around the world have now gone through the B Impact Assessment and have become certified as B Corporations (by B Lab), as of late 2016. “The B Impact Assessment gives companies a score based on how they perform on metrics for impact on their communities, the environment, workers, and customers.”
The annual Best for the World ratings “highlight the businesses that have scored in the top 10 percent of all Certified B Corporations on the assessment. Companies that have scored in the top percentiles across a majority of the assessment’s categories, based on company size, are honored as Best for the World Overall, and companies that have scored in the top percentiles in a given category, again based on company size, are honored as Best for the Environment, Best for Community, Best for Workers and Best for Customers.” This year, 515 companies have qualified for at least one of these Best for the World categories, and 140 companies are considered Best for the World Overall. Below we’ve listed a subset of those companies: companies that were deemed Best for the World Overall, and also qualified for one or two (of the four) specific “Best for” categories. (No companies have yet qualified for all of the “Best for” categories.)
The following are 20 companies that achieved the 2016 Overall “Best for the World” designation, as well as two specific category ratings, including the Best for the Environment category (and their second category would either be Best for Community, Best for Customers, or Best for Workers):
AlterEco (foods)
- Archi’s Acres (organic greenhouse farm)
- Catalyst Partners (building/design services)
- Dr. Bronner’s (soaps, body care products)
- Eco2Librium (business consulting on energy and forestry enterprises)
- Grounds for Change (organic coffee)
- Mobisol (solar energy for developing nations)
- New Belgium Brewing Co. (beer)
- Revivn (electronic recycling for businesses)
- Saul Good Gift Co. (gift baskets of artisanal products)
- South Mountain Co. (design/build services)
- Squiz (reusable food pouches; Switzerland)
- Telesis Corp. (urban community regeneration, planning, finance)
- Triciclos (recycling, waste management company; Brazil & Chile)
- Wholly Hemp (skin care products)
- X-Runner (dry-toilets/sanitation product & service for low-income households in Peru)
- YouGreen (recycling and waste cooperative; Brazil)
These companies achieved the Best for the World Overall rating plus the Best for the Environment rating:
- Accion Verde
- Atayne
- Comet Skateboards
- Cuento de Luz
- Dolphin Blue
- Fazenda de Toca Organicos
- Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods
- Jibu
- Northeast Green Building Consulting
- One Earth Designs
- RainGrid
- Revive (Belgium)
- Seeds Printing
- Sistema Biobolsa
- The Arnold Development Group
- W.S. Badger Co.
And these companies achieved the Best for the World Overall rating plus two of the other sub-categories (but not the Best for the Environment category):
- Abacus Wealth Partners
- Abramar
- Australian Ethical Investment
- Beneficial State Bank
- Bridges Ventures
- Build With Prospect
- Clean Yield Asset Management
- Eudaimonia
- Farmland
- HCA
- Imajine That
- Juhudi Kilimo
- Roshan
- RSF Capital Management
- Saber Es Poder
- Trillium Asset Management
Click here to read stories about some of these B Corporations, as featured in B Magazine.
And click here to find other B Corps, including ones in your region. (You can search by location, name, industry, or keyword.) A few of the largest and most well-known B Corporations are: Patagonia, Ben & Jerry’s, Etsy, Sungevity, Seventh Generation, the Honest Company, Method, and Natura.
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