The origins of our company go back over 100 years, when our founder Isaac Carasso began selling yogurts with ferments in pharmacies in Spain to help address child malnutrition. Since then, it’s always been embedded in Danone that we need to go further with our business so we can help communities thrive. The B Corp certification is a great endorsement of this ethos.

Danone was the first top 10 branded food and healthcare manufacturer in the UK & Ireland to certify as a B Corp. We started our unique journey to certification in 2017 and are now fully certified across our UK & Ireland business. We are proud to be part of a growing global community set up to balance purpose and profit, helping to create a better world while thriving as businesses.

The B Corp Certification is a real mark of trust – but as we know as B Corps, it’s the actions and values that sit behind that certification that really make us stand out.

To become a B Corp, companies have to meet rigorous criteria to showcase how they make impact across the five key B Corp pillars: governance, workers, community, the environment and customers. It’s not enough just to say you’re doing it, you have to show you’re doing it. We are proud of the progress we have made since 2017, from our work on creating a diverse workforce to our carbon reduction roadmap, our innovations in packaging and our work to connect with local communities.