La Marzocco has obtained
the B Corp™ certification
The “B Corporation Certification” is licensed by the private non-profit organization B Lab to companies that meet B Lab’s required standards for social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
To this end, B Lab created the B Impact Assessment (“BIA”), a free, confidential online tool that, based on the standards defined by B Lab, analyzes and evaluates a company’s impact across five areas: governance, workers, community, environment, and customers.
The minimum score required is 80 points. This is followed by a review process during which the company must demonstrate the accuracy of its claims in order to obtain confirmation of the rating.
La Marzocco has always operated in accordance with its core values, balancing the wellbeing of its workers, the community, and the environment with the delivery of reliable, dependable equipment, while ensuring our operations remain consistent with the high expectations of our customers.
The company achieved B Corp™ Certification through a multi-year journey: formalizing the monitoring of its impacts and structuring ethical business practices through evidence-based processes, it ensured full alignment between its mission and the rigorous international standards of accountability and transparency required by the B Corp™ movement.
Why did La Marzocco decide to pursue B Corp™ Certification?
La Marzocco chose to pursue B Corp™ certification to formally institutionalize its core values, ensuring that every business practice is strictly aligned with an ethical and responsible vision. This decision has made it possible to systematize and showcase the numerous sustainability initiatives already in place, while providing a rigorous framework for identifying and implementing new strategies for continuous improvement.
In an increasingly competitive market, this certification serves as a clear point of differentiation, allowing the brand to assert its leadership not only through the excellence of its products but also through the excellence of its socio-environmental impact. Furthermore, this commitment reflects a desire to harmonize with a network of stakeholders increasingly focused on sustainability; within the coffee industry, many of La Marzocco’s partners and clients have already embraced the B Corp™ model, sharing the common goal of generating positive, systemic value throughout the entire supply chain.
our result
The La Marzocco’s B Impact Score is 84.4
The minimum verified score required for B Corp™ Certification is 80.
Governance: 15.2
Governance evaluates a company’s overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
Workers: 27.2
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community: 17.5
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment: 19.8
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognises companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers: 4.5
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognises products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organisations.
Certification Notice
“Certified B Corporation” is a trademark licensed by B Lab, a private non-profit organisation, 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 standardisation body as per Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012. The criteria of the BIA are distinct and independent from the harmonised standards resulting from ISO norms or other standardisation bodies, and they are not ratified by national or European public institutions.