Herman Vaessen BV
Limburg, Netherlands The
October 2025
Landscape services
Service with Significant Environmental Footprint
Netherlands The
Herman Vaessen is a family-owned company with more than 60 years of experience in creating green, sustainable environments. Through our projects and services, we enhance climate resilience, biodiversity, health, well-being, and livability. We believe that people need nature—not the other way around—and we are committed to making sustainable solutions accessible for everyone. From the very beginning, we have prioritized the well-being, inclusion, and fair working conditions of our employees, while actively supporting our local community and continuously improving our sustainable business practices. Since achieving our first ISO certifications in 1996, we have remained dedicated to responsible entrepreneurship and transparent quality management. Becoming a Certified B Corporation is a natural next step in our long-standing commitment to social and environmental responsibility. We are proud to join a global community of businesses that measure success by their positive impact on people and the planet. Together with our team, we work every day to green our living environment and contribute to a fairer, more transparent, and more sustainable world.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 15.1
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 57.3
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.
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 10.7
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 16.6
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.
Customers 2.1
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.