About The Utilikilts Company
The Utilikilts Company is committed to pioneering a comfortable alternative to trousers by producing “Men’s Unbifurcated Garments” (MUG’s). The Utilikilt has become a growing social phenomenon, inspired debate, consistently challenged the media, changed lives, and created a common symbolism among its wearers. With customers all over the world, the Utilikilts Co. continues to both pioneer and to follow the best examples it can find, in every area of running a socially responsible business.
We became a B Corp because Utilikilitarians are evangelists. We want to have an impact on public policy in this country. Our politicians aren’t doing what we need them to do and hopefully a community of businesses like this can become a constituency for change.
The Utilikilts Company, established April 2000, was originally founded in order to fund a global arts project that would travel the world putting on an interactive road show of music, dance, video art, and drama and leaving change in its wake. The Utilikilt was one of several designs implemented by Form Follows Function, an original design company, in order to raise money for this Arts project. The Utilikilt spawned the Utilikilts Company, and right before our eyes, this unique garment began to accomplish the goals that Form Follows Function had originally set out to promote.
The Change We Seek™
Utilikilts seeks to set a global example, defining “business with a conscience”, driving a worldwide paradigm shift toward a more conscientious form of capitalism, and channeling company gains and resources back into the community.
• Our mission statement explicity states that the management of the company will not exploit cultures, peoples or environments to achieve capital gains.
• We strive to be socially, environmentally, and economically responsible and make a vigilant effort to construct a profitable, sustainable, and transparent business class or corporation type having 7th generation values that will provide for the needs of all members in an egalitarian manner.
Utilikilts
- Industry: Apparel & Footwear
- Location: seattle, WA
- http://utilikilts.com
Summary:
Certified: October 2008| Points Earned | % Points Available | |
|---|---|---|
| Accountability » | 10 | 54% |
| Employees » | 25.6 | 57% |
| Consumers » | 20.7 | 40% |
| Community » | 13.4 | 29% |
| Environment » | 24 | 61% |
| Composite B Score | 93.7 | 48% |
- >80 out of 200 is eligible for certification
- >60% points available = Area of excellence
Highlights:
2008 B Impact ReportEnvironment: >75% of office supplies come from recycled materials, Policy to minimize travel, Policy to increase energy efficiency, >25% of transportation fleet uses alternative fuels
Employees: 100% of employees offered reimbursement for continuing education, All employees paid a living wage, >80% of individual/family health insurance premiums covered, 6+ weeks maternity leave
Community: >60% of expenditures directed toward local suppliers, >50% of employees are women, >30% of employees from low-income communities
