Hecht & Bannier
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
September 2022
Agicultural support/post-harvest
Agriculture/Growers
Australia,
Belgium,
Brazil,
Canada,
Croatia (Hrvatska),
France,
Germany,
Greece,
Hong Kong S.A.R.,
Japan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Luxembourg,
New Zealand,
Norway,
South Korea,
Spain,
Switzerland,
Thailand,
United States,
Vietnam
Hecht & Bannier is a wine producer in Provence and Languedoc regions. It was created in 2002 by two friends, François Bannier and Gregory Hecht. Soon recognized as one of the highest quality driven wineries in the South of France (twice honored with a Wine Spectator Top 100 wines of the year award), Hecht & Bannier has been proudly certified Organic by Ecocert since 2007. The leadership has geared all its efforts toward doing things in a better way, less harm and more good. The winery has been constantly working on reducing the global impact of its business and honoring its mission and commitments: "To share the expression of our regional vineyards with organic and affordable wines while building a long-lasting and profitable relationship with our vinegrower and cooperative partners.”
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 18.9
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 18.9
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 23.4
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 16.6
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 34.1
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 4.1
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.