B Impact Report

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Chia Sisters

Chia drinks, pressed juices, sparkling coconut water, tonics, smoothies & muesli
Certified Since: February, 2021
Location: Nelson, Annesbrook, New Zealand
Sector: Manufacturing

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

118.6

The B Impact Scores are being compared against all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment

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Chia Sisters prioritise having a positive impact on the environment and communities in which they operate.

They use high-nutrition fruits and seeds to craft health drinks and breakfasts. Their ranges are all-natural, made from plants with no added sugar. They bottle using solar power in a Zero Carbon juicery and are Nelson's first Living Wage certified employer. Sisters and co-founders Chloe and Florence Van Dyke are using Chia Sisters as a testing ground for creating an ethical business framework.

Chia Sisters firmly believe sustainability initiatives can't be selfish: they have put aside traditional ideas about competition and instead work together across businesses to share learnings and move 'business as usual' into a new age of radical collaboration and transparency. Chia Sisters is the founding business of an initiative called Businesses For Climate Action, a platform for businesses to work together to innovate and implement carbon reduction practices.

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info_outlineOverall B Impact Score

To certify as a B Corp, a company must achieve a minimum verified score of 80 points on the B Impact Assessment. The B Impact Assessment asks questions about how the day-to-day operations of a company create positive impact for the company’s workers, community, and environment. Additionally, companies can earn further points if their overall business model can be shown to create positive social and environmental impact as well, qualifying the company for specific Impact Business Model points.

Scores for Certified B Corporations are verified by the non-profit B Lab.

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The questions in the B Impact Assessment are organized into five Impact Areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers. Click into a Impact Area to see topics covered in each. Topics in blue are Impact Business Models associated with that Impact Area where the company has earned additional credit. Due to rounding, displayed totals may not add up exactly.

The B Impact Assessment is customized to a company's size, sector, and geographic market.  However, within those parameters, there are still questions included in the B Impact Assessment that might not be relevant to a particular company. In cases where a question is not applicable, the potential points available for that question are instead earned based on the performance of the company on the other topics relevant to the stakeholder and summed up as "N/A points." Likewise, a score of N/A for Workers means that the company is a sole proprietor or partnership with no full-time staff, and a score of 0 or N/A for Customers means that the company does not have a specific Customer-focused Impact Business Model.

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