Benelux
B Lab develops standards, policies, tools, and programs that shift the behavior, culture, and structure of capitalism. We mobilize the Benelux B Corp community towards collective action.
Our local teams are key to realizing our vision of a better economic system in Europe. They support and engage with B Corps, businesses, non-profits, advocates, and other actors of change – all part of the B Corp movement – on a national level. B Lab Europe is driving change in 29 European countries. We do so by coordinating and working closely with our European Network of local country teams and utilizing B Lab Europe’s internal Markets Development team, supporting regions where the B Corp movement is still in its early stages of development. By the end of 2023, the European Network counted more than 120 employees.
Diverse yet unified, we share a common vision to transform Europe into a continent of impact-driven businesses, where the norm is for companies to operate for the benefit of people and the planet, not merely for profit. To foster collaboration, interdependence, and strategic alignment, all B Lab teams across Europe are gathering annually in person. Further, B Lab Europe conducts an annual network-wide survey to collect feedback and measure satisfaction and alignment.
Currently, we have local teams in Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Nordics, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. In each country you’ll be able to find a team of passionate individuals.
B Lab develops standards, policies, tools, and programs that shift the behavior, culture, and structure of capitalism. We mobilize the Benelux B Corp community towards collective action.
B Lab France was created to represent the movement locally, the NGO has only been operating since 2019. Today, the French B Corp community is growing actively, with more than 350 certified companies.
B Lab Germany was founded at the end of 2020. As a non-profit organization and community of pioneers, it offers educational tools with which entrepreneurs can demonstrate and implement their social and environmental responsibility.
Since 2013, B Corps have been promoting a new business model in Italy through information, activism, education, events and dialogue with institutions.
B Lab Ireland was founded in 2023 to oversee the growth of the B Corp movement in Ireland. We are part of an international nonprofit network that creates economic systems change through standards, policies, tools, and programs.
We’re in business to help society and the planet flourish. Since the first B Corp certified in Denmark in 2015, we have mobilized the Nordic B Corp community towards collective action, collaborating to drive fundamental systems change.
As part of the global B Corp movement, we believe business can and should be a force for good, contributing to a better world. In Portugal, we mobilize businesses towards collective action to address society’s most critical challenges.
Back in 2015 Roots For Sustainability (R4S) is chosen as a Country Partner of B Lab to represent the B Corp movement in Spain. In 2019 the B Lab Spain Foundation is established and the community has now grown to over 200 B Corps.
B Lab Switzerland was officially launched in 2017. Since then, more than 130 Swiss companies have become certified B Corporations.
B Lab Europe is committed to expanding the reach and impact of the B Corp movement in new geographies, exploring ways in which B Lab’s tools and certification can be relevant, accessible, and impactful to a businesses as a force for good™.