Maxwell and McIntyre Oral Care
1.6
Northland Region, New Zealand
October 2025
Personal care products
Manufacturing
New Zealand
OUR MISSION Creating premium organic oral care products that honour people, planet, and indigenous wisdom. We believe oral health should never come at the expense of environmental health. WHO WE ARE Maxwell & McIntyre is a proudly indigenous-owned oral care company based in Kerikeri, Aotearoa New Zealand. We craft certified organic oral care products using natural ingredients, manufactured in-house at our Northland facility with complete quality control and environmental responsibility at every step. As a Māori-owned business, we bring indigenous values of kaitiakitanga (guardianship) and manaakitanga (caring for others) to everything we create. Our products reflect our commitment to sustainability, transparency, and doing business in a way that benefits all stakeholders—from our local community to our global customers.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 22.7
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.
Community 36.9
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 21.7
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 11.8
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.
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.