B Corporation (certification)

This article is about a private certification. For the legal corporate structure, see benefit corporation.
Certified B Corporation logo mark. This B Corp mark can only be used by companies certified by B Lab.

In business, a B Corporation (also B Corp) is a for-profit corporation certified for its social impact by B Lab, a global non-profit organization. To be granted and to maintain certification, companies must receive a minimum score of 80 from an assessment of its social and environmental performance, integrate B Corp commitments to stakeholders into company governing documents, and pay an annual fee based on annual sales.[1] Companies must re-certify every three years to retain B Corporation status.

As of February 2024, there are 8,254 certified B Corporations across 162 industries in 96 countries.[2]

  1. ^ "Certification | Certified B Corporation". bcorporation.net. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  2. ^ "B Lab Global Site". B Lab. Retrieved 29 August 2023.