COCO Chocolatier / UP-UP / OTHERLY
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
August 2023
Food products
Manufacturing
United Kingdom
Mothership Holdings comprises of 3 chocolate brands: COCO Chocolatier, OTHERLY and UP-UP. All 3 brands source their cocoa from Colombia with COCO Chocolatier and OTHERLY being single-origin while UP-UP is single-estate. A large amount of the chocolate production is completed in Colombia, meaning more wealth remains in the country of origin. The chocolate is then completed and packaged in South Queensferry, Scotland. COCO Chocolatier is a canvas for artists and artisans alike. By partnering with different artists and designers to develop the chocolate packaging, the brand has created a distinct and clear visual identity. COCO is is where cocoa and creativity collide, with no compromise on style or substance. OTHERLY is a plant-based chocolate brand, replacing milk with oat powder. OTHERLY consists of different OTHERLY worlds, inhabited by different characters, where no rules are followed and no logic can't be broken. UP-UP is a challenger brand, with a clear mission of flipping the chocolate industry upside down by ensuring they know exactly how everyone in the cocoa supply chain is treated. UP-UP is the worlds first chocolate brand to be certified by slavefreetrade.org. UP-UP is great chocolate. No downside.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 14.7
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 14.7
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 22.4
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 16.3
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 25.9
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.
Customers 3.4
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.