B Impact Report

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Volvic

Natural Mineral Water and Beverages
Certified Since: March, 2020
Location: Volvic, Auvergne, France
Sector: Manufacturing

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

81.1

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

www.volvic.fr

Volvic is a unique natural mineral water born in a volcanic natural ecosystem in the Auvergne region of France. 13,500 years ago, a volcanic eruption created an immense natural filtration system that only nature can provide and that is how Volvic comes to life. As a part of Danone, Volvic has committed to inspire healthier and more sustainable eating and drinking practices and is doing so through several environmentally focused efforts.
The activist water brand is committed to operating in a sustainable way, carefully respecting the natural cycle of water and always seeking to take actions for the environment in an effort to restore balance to allow nature to continue to give us its strength and guarantee the purity of the water. For more than 10 years, Volvic has been leading a public-private partnership with the four municipalities of the catchment area and local stakeholders called CEPIV to preserve these ecosystems. In 2020, they became carbon neutral, a journey that implies the reduction of the business carbon footprint year on year, starting by switching to renewable energy. At the same time, they are rethinking packaging by moving to 100% recycled plastic in their bottles by 2025, starting with Germany and Switzerland going full recycled PET in 2020.

Additional Documentationinfo_outline

file_downloadTransparent Assessment - Volvic file_downloadSensitive Industry Statement - Volvic file_downloadDisclosure Report - Volvic

Impact Area Scoresinfo_outline

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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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.