Living Edge
New South Wales, Australia
May 2023
Furniture
Wholesale/Retail
Australia
Living Edge is the foremost design destination in Australia for architects, interior designers, design enthusiasts and those who share discerning taste. We’re committed to authentic, sustainable design, and providing our clients with the most distinguished and desirable products available. For more than 25 years, we have provided architects and designers the ideas, inspiration and solutions that enable them to create authentic, inviting, and highly functional living and working spaces. Our commitment to sustainability begins with the products we choose to bring to market – a commitment embodied by our Furniture For Life concept. Furniture For Life has a dual meaning; firstly, our range is made of designs for living, working, and everything in between. Secondly, it reflects that the aesthetic, functional, and manufacturing qualities of our products ensure longevity – ours are products bought for a lifetime, not throwaway consumables. But our commitment to sustainability goes beyond our products. In 2008, we launched our sustainability program, LivingOn, with a recognition that we had a responsibility to be an environmentally and socially responsible company in our own right. Over the last 15 years, the LivingOn program has evolved to focus on environmental, social, and economic
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 13.4
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 22.7
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 14.7
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 27.4
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.
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 3.3
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.