B Corp since 2021

Among the most responsible in the world

B Corp is your guarantee that your coffee meets very high standards of social and environmental responsibility.

Top marks in sustainability

The highest B Corp score in the EU

When CleverCoffee became B Corp certified in 2021, it was with a score of 88.2.
In 2025 - four years later - we have almost doubled our score to 154.6 points.

This means that CleverCoffee has the highest score among all coffee companies in the EU - and the second highest score for all companies in the Nordic region.

What is a B Corp?

Facts about B Corp

B Corps are companies that have been certified by B Lab and meet high standards for social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability.

B Corps think beyond their own bottom line and show how financial returns and purpose can work together to drive meaningful change. There are more than 9,000 B Corps globally.

There are currently 5 Danish-owned coffee companies that have achieved B Corp status: CleverCoffee (154.6), Ønsk (120.8), Coffee Collective (98.3), Original Coffee (84) and Prolog Coffee (82.2).

I've never seen anything like this. I honestly haven't seen such a points increase in all the years I've been working with B Corp. Not even internationally.

Steffen Kallehauge, Partner in Märk and B Corp Expert

Why B Corp is special

A holistic assessment

The B stands for “Benefit for all” and refers to doing good. It's not about being the best in the world - but for the world.

Unlike product certifications like Fairtrade or Rainforest Alliance, B Corp is a certification of the entire company. The B Corp score is an expression of the company's overall environmental, social and governance performance: How much good does the company do in the world?

Our B Corp certification is your guarantee that you are buying coffee from a responsible company. Specifically, B Corp has verified that CleverCoffee alleviates poverty, strengthens biodiversity and has a drastically reduced environmental impact.

B Impact Score

Overall score: 154.6

Governance / 19.5

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 (eg benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.

CleverCoffee performance on Governance:

Mission & Commitment 4.0

Ethics & Transparency 5.5

+ Mission Locked 10

Workers / 25.5

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.

CleverCoffee performance on Workers:

Financial Security 4.5

Health, Wellness, & Safety 7.5

Career Development 2.7

Engagement & Satisfaction 7.9

Community / 32.5

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.

CleverCoffee performance on Community:

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion 4.0

Economic Impact 6.0

Civic Engagement & Giving 2.8

Supply Chain Management 4.8

+Supply Chain Poverty Alleviation 11.6

Environment / 73.4

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 recognizes 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.

CleverCoffee performance on Environment:

Environmental Management 7.3

Air & Climate 13.4

Water 4.3

Land & Life 9.0

+Environmentally Innovative Manufacturing Process 22.7

+Renewable or Cleaner-burning Energy 7.4

+Resource Conservation 3.5

+Land/wildlife Conservation 5.4

Customers / 3.6

Customers evaluate 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 recognizes 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 organizations.

CleverCoffee performance on Customers:

Customer Stewardship 3.6

Documented accountability

In our opinion, B Corp certification is the world's most stringent third-party verification, guaranteeing that you are buying your coffee from a responsible company.

When you buy coffee at CleverCoffee, you help create positive change for coffee farmers around the world.

We don't just want to be the best in the world, but the best FOR the world.

You make a difference

As a customer at CleverCoffee, you contribute to ensuring that coffee farmers can live a life above the poverty line and that they can afford to develop their farms so that they have a long-term source of income.