Tekla is now a certified B Corp
Tekla has met B Lab’s high standards and joins a global movement of people using business as a force for good.
A B Corp is a company verified by B Lab to be purpose-driven, resulting in a holistic certification that covers the entirety of business operations. B Corps make a legal commitment to consider the interests of all stakeholders in their business operations, creating benefits for not just shareholders.
To become certified, a company must pass a comprehensive assessment that scores a business’s social and environmental performance across five key stakeholder groups: the environment, workers, community, customers and governance.
Since launching in 2017, we’ve strived to only work with organic cotton, kept a close relationship with our tier 1 suppliers, committed to a majority production in Europe and focused on core collections that reject rapid trend cycles. Joining B Corp reflects many of our existing values, but it also presents us with an opportunity to continue to build the company in a responsible way.
We’re proud of the work we have done to achieve this rigorous certification, from our widespread use of organic cotton to our work towards tracing our supply chain and supporting significant fundraising for ClientEarth – an environmental charity using the power of the law to protect all life on Earth. But we know there is still so much more to be done.
We strive to mitigate the impact of our operations as much as possible, but many of the challenges faced are systemic and no one company can tackle them alone. Working transparently and aligning with other organisations that work towards systemic change, like B Lab, is an important step towards making crucial changes to the industry.
Becoming certified is not the end of the journey, rather an important step.
Learn more about our responsibility work.
Certification Notice
“Certified B Corporation” is a trademark licensed by B Lab, a private non-profit organization, to companies like ours that have successfully completed the B Impact Assessment (“BIA”) and therefore meet the requirements set by B Lab for social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
It is specified that B Lab is not a conformity assessment body as defined by Regulation (EU) No 765/2008, nor is it a national, European, or international standardization body as per Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012. The criteria of the BIA are distinct and independent from the harmonized standards resulting from ISO norms or other standardization bodies, and they are not ratified by national or European public institutions.