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B Lab celebrates Germany’s “Best for the World”

July 26, 2022

Every year, B Lab recognizes the best performing B Corps as “Best for the Word”. This year, we took the award as an opportunity to gather the B Corp community and celebrate live for the first time since B Lab Germany was founded in 2020.

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40 degrees and no prospect of cooling down quickly. The day of the party was one of the hottest days in Berlin with a maximum temperature of around 40 degrees and an official heat warning. But that didn’t stop more than 50 people from accepting the invitation to our celebration, where we honored 11 companies as “Best for the World” over ice-cold drinks in the Coffee Circle premises in Berlin’s Wedding district and then celebrated together.

What exactly does “Best for the World” mean?

“Best for the World” (vs. “Best of the World”) is the award for a B Corp-certified company if it is among the top 5% in the world in one of the five impact areas – community, customers, environment, governance and employees – in its respective size group. The award is presented each year by B Lab, the global non-profit organization behind the B Corp seal. Moderated by Iris Lapinski, Managing Director of B Lab Germany, and Martin Elwert, Founder and Managing Director of Coffee Circle and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of B Lab Germany, we began with the official award ceremony. This year, a total of 11 Best for the World companies headquartered in Germany are represented in the following impact areas:

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Inspire and be inspired

However, “Best for the World” is more than just an award for B Lab. Rather, it offers the B Corp community and other companies in general the opportunity to learn and be inspired by the practices and insights of these companies. In this sense, it was also important for the celebration that we not only celebrate in the circle of the honorees, but that the entire community is present. This includes all B Corps, of course, but also companies that are currently on their way to certification as well as friends, partners and allies of the movement. We are delighted that SEND e.V., Active Philanthropy and Leuphana University were among those represented.

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See you next time

After the ceremony, we celebrated with drinks, snacks and DJ music until the sun (finally!) set and a pleasant breeze blew through the rooms. At this point, a big thank you to everyone who came and celebrated with us. A big thank you also goes to the team from Coffee Circle, who organized the event so professionally and provided the premises, as well as share for the financial support of the event. We look forward to the next time! Photos by Max Hartmann

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