Mayhew Bros [Ember] Ltd
London Borough of Southwark, United Kingdom
March 2022
Food products
Wholesale/Retail
United Kingdom
The meat industry is having a makeover: it’s no longer as black and white as ‘Meat: Bad & Plant: Good’. Ember are here to claim back meat for the good guys. With a narrative defined by factory farming, intensive agriculture and race to the bottom standards, Ember are determined to give good meat the story it deserves. Founded in 2017 by farming brothers, Jack and Harry Mayhew, Ember started as a simple biltong brand but has evolved to be so much more. Shocked by the murky nature of the world of meat, Ember set out on the path towards a new mission: to end factory farming in the meat industry for good. Since then they’ve been the first to get regenerative beef onto supermarket shelves, and got everyday people eating - and loving - wild venison (possibly the UKs most sustainable meat) for the first time. The curtain is rightly coming down on cheap, cruel and unethical meat, but the future is bright for meat done right and Ember are shining a light on that.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 18.4
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 18.4
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 32.3
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 20.6
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 16.0
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.
Customers 4.5
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.