British beauty brand Elemis, owned by L’OCCITANE Group, has achieved B Corp Certification. The achievement marks a new milestone in the Group’s mission to becoming a B Corp Certified company.
Elemis is an operationally independent subsidiary of the Group. It completed its B Corp Impact Assessment after two years of implementing sustainable changes to its business practices.
Its key projects included diversity, equity and inclusion training and mentoring programmes; ensuring fair wages and working conditions; more sustainable packaging; and carbon sink projects.
Elemis achieved a score of 93 points. It joins a community of more than 6,000 B Corp Certified businesses around the world.
B Corp analyses five different areas of a company’s operations: governance, workers community, environment and customers. B Corp is the most comprehensive impact measurement and management tool globally and involves a rigorous assessment of the whole business to meet its standards for social and environmental performance.
For L’OCCITANE Group, its goal of achieving B Corp certification company-wide underlines its collective vision of creating an inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy.
The Group has recently unveiled a new Corporate Mission: ‘With empowerment we positively impact people and regenerate nature.’ This new mission acts as a north star to steer the actions of the entire organisation with a collective focus on people, planet and profitability.
“I congratulate Elemis on this outstanding achievement which demonstrates how the brand and its people strive at every level for a more equitable, sustainable and inclusive world,” commented L’OCCITANE Group Vice-Chairman and CEO André Hoffmann.
“We are proud of our B Corp certification, a holistic assessment of a company’s social and environmental impact across all of its stakeholders,” added Elemis Co-Founder and CEO Séan Harrington. “In our view, companies have a responsibility to bring meaningful, positive benefits to society.”
Elemis Co-Founder & Chief Product & Sustainability Officer Oriele Frank added: “As part of L’OCCITANE Group, we have the ambition to become the most sustainable premium British skincare brand, and plan to accomplish more action-based commitments in 2023 making continuous improvements to our positive impact mission.”
Elemis Co-Founder & Global President Noella Gabriel added: “We have always considered our impact on people and planet to be as important as our results-driven formulas. Being certified provides further assurances to our customers that we are committed to driving long-term positive changes as a responsible, ethical business.”✈
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