ISEM Group
1.6
Metropolitan City of Bologna, Italy
July 2021
Paper & paper products
Manufacturing
France,
Italy,
United Arab Emirates,
United States
ISEM is a fully integrated European group operating in the luxury packaging sector for the world’s most prestigious brands. The group combines artisanal craftsmanship with industrial precision and operational excellence to deliver high quality packaging solutions for the fashion, perfumery & cosmetics, and wines & spirits sectors. Its portfolio includes rigid boxes, folding cartons, textile packaging, silk papers, as well as an integrated and reliable co packing service. Across its activities, ISEM embeds ESG principles, sustainability, social impact and full traceability into its processes, reflecting a long term commitment to responsible business practices. ISEM Group’s latest B Corp recertification represents a significant step forward in its continuous improvement journey. While initially limited to a single legal entity, the certification scope has now been expanded to include Sacchettificio Toscano and Industrial Pack, reinforcing a shared approach to impact management across the group. This expanded scope requires the alignment of processes, performance indicators, and governance across multiple companies, with the objective of ensuring consistency, transparency and accountability throughout the value chain. In line with the values of the B Corp movement, ISEM considers bu
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 18.3
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 25.6
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 18.7
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 31.0
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.
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.
Customers 4.2
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.