Cabot Creamery Cooperative

Certified B Corporation
Certified Since

August 2012

Industry

Food products

Sector

Manufacturing

Operates In

United States

Cabot Creamery Cooperative, based in Vermont, is a consumer-facing brand of Agri-Mark Inc., a farmer-owned cooperative. For over a century, the co-op has been making award-winning dairy products with love, pride, and purpose. The co-op's farm families throughout New England and New York produce the high-quality milk that’s made into delicious products like Cabot Creamery’s cheddar, butter, Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream and McCadam branded cheeses. Agri-Mark also produces whey protein and milk powder products that are distributed globally. As the first dairy cooperative to become a certified B Corp, Agri-Mark is proud to uphold our members’ commitment to caring for the land, and enriching communities for generations to come.

Overall B Impact Score

Based on the B Impact assessment, Cabot Creamery Cooperative earned an overall score of 85.6. The median score for ordinary businesses who complete the assessment is currently 50.9.
85.6
85.6 Overall B Impact Score
80 Qualifies for B Corp Certification
50.9 Median Score for Ordinary Businesses

Governance 14.2

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.

Mission & Engagement2.1
Ethics & Transparency4.6
+ Mission Locked7.5

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 20.3

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.

Financial Security5.0
Health, Wellness, & Safety6.9
Career Development3.2
Engagement & Satisfaction4.3

Community 29.5

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.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion3.0
Economic Impact4.3
Civic Engagement & Giving2.6
Supply Chain Management5.4
+ Producer Cooperative12.8

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.


Environment 17.4

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.

Environmental Management3.2
Air & Climate6.6
Water3.4
Land & Life4.0

Customers 3.9

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.

Customer Stewardship3.9


Previous Overall B Impact Scores

2018 Overall B Impact Score92.7
2015 Overall B Impact Score84.4
2012 Overall B Impact Score82.4

Additional Documentation

Cabot Creamery Co-operative Disclosure Report 2023