NZ’s First B Corp Wine Brand.
Certified B Corporations, are companies verified by B Lab to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
Our business is now B Corp Certified.
Today, the efforts of our adventurous company were recognised as we became B Corp Certified, joining a global community of businesses that meet high standards of social and environmental impact.
Acquiring the certification is an extensive process involving the assessment of each brand’s social and environmental influence with more than 200 questions as defined by B Lab, covering governance, employees, communities, and the environment.
Certified B Corporation
Business, for us, is a catalyst for change. A medium, and mechanism, for doing good. For our community, our planet, and the people who make our products a possibility.
After a year of vigorous objective assessment, documentation, and verification, we have officially become a certified B Corp.
Proudly, we are the 1st wine brand in New Zealand to be certified. For clarification, this is not some exuberant marketing tool. We put in the work, opened up the entire business for scrutiny, criticism, and assessment.
Since inception, we have focused on a better way. Local, family owned supply chains. Sustainable, environmentally friendly packaging, and processes. A company culture that is creative, empowering, empathetic, inclusive, intentional, and transparent. A way of doing things that made sense to us.
This certification requires us to change our legally binding corporate bylaws. Considerations for stakeholders, the environment, and our community, are cemented into our decision making process. Balancing profit, purpose, and responsibility. Something we have always done and will always do.
Our Initiatives
Based on the B Impact assessment, Tiraki Ltd earned an overall score of 102.5. The median score for ordinary businesses who complete the assessment is currently 50.9.
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We are formally committed to donate the equivalent of 2% of revenues or more to charitable partners each year.
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We have a commitment to purchase core products (at least 50% of non-labor expenses) from independent suppliers local to where the product will be used or where the company operates
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Tiraki audits our supply partners to make sure our values are aligned. Working with partners who have third party sustainability certification and prioritising local suppliers when possible.
Business for good
The B Corporation - which is purpose-driven and creates benefit for all stakeholders. As B Corporations and leaders of this emerging economy, we believe: that we must be the change we seek in the world. That all business ought to be conducted as if people and place matter. That, through their products, practices and profits, businesses should should aspire to do no harm and benefit all. To do so requires that we act with the understanding that we are each dependent upon one another and thus responsible for each other and future generations.
Discover more about B Corp.
B Lab is the nonprofit network transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet. Building on their standards and certification process, their network leads economic systems change to support the collective vision of an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy.