B Impact Report

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Danone ELN Greater China

Infant Milk Formula & Baby Food
Certified Since: May, 2020
Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Sector: Wholesale/Retail

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

88.2

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

www.danone.com.cn/brands/early-life-nutrition.html

As a pioneer in early life nutrition solutions, Danone Early Life Nutrition (“ELN”) has been building the expertise in the science of early life nutrition since 1869. Over 40 years of research into human milk, Danone Early Life Nutrition believes in the importance of the first 1000 days. They are committed to help parents and society to give children the best nutritional start in the first 1000 days, to positively influence health for a lifetime.
The Chinese infant nutrition market holds great growth potential for Danone. With a multi-brand strategy, Danone ELN Greater China has introduced international brands Aptamil, Nutrilon, Cow&Gate, Karicare, and HappyBaby to Greater China, aiming to nurture a strong bond with Chinese mothers, further to be the driving force of ‘Healthy China 2030 Plan’.

Furthermore, in collaboration with Danone Communities and a local social business partner, Danone ELN Greater China established a social business, NutriGo. It aims to tackle health issues, including anemia and undergrowth, with its NutriGo nutrition supplements products for children below 6 years old in China.

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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.

info_outlineImpact Area Scores

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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Each year, B Lab releases lists honoring the top-performing Certified B Corps in each Impact Area and overall, broken down by size, on the annual Best for the World lists.

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B Lab may determine that a company should make additional material beyond their B Impact Report transparent in order for the public to be able to evaluate the company’s overall impact. This additional transparency may cover participation in a controversial industry, information shared on the company’s Disclosure Questionnaire, or simply a company’s relationship to a larger complex entity. Public companies and wholly-owned subsidiaries are required to make their full B Impact Assessments transparent to achieve B Corp Certification.