B Impact Report

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Royal Van Wijhe Verf B.V.

Paints & Colourants
Certified Since: May, 2016
Location: Zwolle, Zwolle, Netherlands
Sector: Manufacturing

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

98.3

The B Impact Scores are being compared against all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment

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Royal Van Wijhe Verf is a dutch paint producer that develops, produces and sales decorative paints and coatings for the professional painter and the consumer (DIY market). Van Wijhe Verf also develops colorants for the BtoB market and coatings for the joinery market. Although the main market is still The Netherlands the company exports its products to over 20 countries in the world. The company is a fourth generation family business and celebrated it's 100 year anniversary in 2016.

Van Wijhe Verf BV started in 1916 as a wholesale company in pharmaceutical products, paints and paint raw materials. After WOII it focused completely on the development, production and sales of decorative paints. With the dutch brand Wijzonol the company gained market share with its perfect outdoor stains and lacquers. In the '90s it became the third largest paint producer in The Netherlands with it's Wijzonol brand. Nowadays it has a broad portfolio of interior and exterior paints and lacquers and is the third paint producer in The Netherlands and also the largest independent producer. Customers are the professional painters and the brand is also available for the consumer in the DIY market.

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To certify as a B Corp, a company must achieve a minimum verified score of 80 points on the B Impact Assessment. The B Impact Assessment asks questions about how the day-to-day operations of a company create positive impact for the company’s workers, community, and environment. Additionally, companies can earn further points if their overall business model can be shown to create positive social and environmental impact as well, qualifying the company for specific Impact Business Model points.

Scores for Certified B Corporations are verified by the non-profit B Lab.

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The questions in the B Impact Assessment are organized into five Impact Areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers. Click into a Impact Area to see topics covered in each. Topics in blue are Impact Business Models associated with that Impact Area where the company has earned additional credit. Due to rounding, displayed totals may not add up exactly.

The B Impact Assessment is customized to a company's size, sector, and geographic market.  However, within those parameters, there are still questions included in the B Impact Assessment that might not be relevant to a particular company. In cases where a question is not applicable, the potential points available for that question are instead earned based on the performance of the company on the other topics relevant to the stakeholder and summed up as "N/A points." Likewise, a score of N/A for Workers means that the company is a sole proprietor or partnership with no full-time staff, and a score of 0 or N/A for Customers means that the company does not have a specific Customer-focused Impact Business Model.

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Each year, B Lab releases lists honoring the top-performing Certified B Corps in each Impact Area and overall, broken down by size, on the annual Best for the World lists.

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