This text is sponsored by Sanofi.

B Firms, higher referred to as B Corps, are leaders within the international motion for an equitable, sustainable future. 

Sanofi Client Healthcare North America – the maker of manufacturers corresponding to Allegra, Dulcolax, Icy Scorching, Unisom and Xyzal – lately turned the primary, giant shopper well being B Corp. However what offers a multinational firm like ours the best to speak about social impression and sustainability?

To start out, turning into a B Corp isn’t simply one thing our firm thought to pursue in a single day. We made a calculated determination years in the past to make sure our efforts to make healthcare easy and accessible additionally enabled our tens of millions of shoppers to participate in reworking enterprise as a power for good. The rigorous, three-year certification course of to point out we meet excessive requirements of social and environmental efficiency is only one step on our ongoing journey to champion higher self-care for a more healthy society and planet.

We aspire for our journey to assist affect the better shopper well being enterprise ecosystem to hitch the rising B Corp group.

Wholesome individuals want a wholesome planet

Well being is now not a set of signs to be handled in isolation — our well being is inextricably linked to the world round us. Within the water we drink, the air we breathe, the heat of our solar and the social injustices that shake us to our core. That’s why we’re honored to be a part of the B Corp group and excited to point out how revenue and objective can go hand in hand.

Up to now, we and our manufacturers have made essential progress on our social and environmental targets — from decreasing our carbon footprint and reducing down waste to sourcing extra responsibly and supporting the wellbeing of communities the place we do enterprise. For instance, we’re working to eradicate roughly 35 tons of plastic packaging per yr by eradicating plastic home windows from Allegra, Nasacort and different product packaging.

Multinationals as international change brokers

Whereas small and medium-size companies make up many of the B Corp group, an rising variety of multinational firms corresponding to ours — with greater than $1 billion in annual income — have gotten licensed B Corps. And it’s truly harder for a bigger firm to certify than a smaller one as a result of we’re rightfully held to stricter requirements, deeper verifications and extra necessities.

Resulting from our measurement, scope and better affect on the financial system, large firms have an essential function to play in driving international, methods change at scale. Though solely round 1 p.c of the greater than 7,000 B Corps throughout the globe are multinationals, we characterize a considerable portion (28 p.c) of the B Corp workforce.

This achievement is rather more than a milestone or badge of sustainability accomplishments. It’s serving to us perceive and enhance our impression and the impression of the business at giant. B Lab’s rigorous course of enabled us to take a significant take a look at what we have been doing and the place we might deepen efforts, making us a stronger group and a greater, extra purposeful enterprise throughout.

We hope to encourage our friends in shopper well being — each giant and small — to hitch us in championing this rigorous sustainability certification to speed up a world motion for constructive change.