BEDI Studios
Quebec, Canada
January 2024
Apparel
Wholesale/Retail
Canada
BEDI crafts sleek, warm winter coats and durable bags from recycled materials. Using salvaged seatbelts, robust, recycled nylon, and upcycled airline seats, all BEDI designs are inspired by their slogan: “One day everything new will come from something old.” BEDI’s products are proudly made in small batches in Canada, with a focus on quality over quantity. Their use of ballistic nylon and quality craftsmanship allows BEDI to offer a lifetime guarantee on all their winter coats and bags. Coupled with a classic, minimalist aesthetic that never goes out of style, their products are designed to be timeless in every sense. Embracing the ethos of a circular economy, BEDI also offers a Second Life program, allowing customers to trade in their existing BEDI coat should they wish for a change in style or size– a testament to the brand’s commitment to quality and sustainability in all stages of their product’s lifecycle. BEDI was born out of the desire for balance – to create pieces that are grounded in good design while using what we already have, and preserving our planet. The result is a slow collection of Japandi-inspired pieces that are as elegant as they are utilitarian.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 15.4
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.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Governance 15.4
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.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 22.2
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 26.3
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 35.0
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.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Customers 4.6
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 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.