KOECKEBACKERS
North Holland, Netherlands The
March 2025
Food products
Wholesale/Retail
Netherlands The
Koeckebackers is a Dutch social enterprise that demonstrates how commercial success and social impact can reinforce each other. The company produces high-quality cookies with a strong focus on taste, craftsmanship, and responsible sourcing, while creating meaningful employment opportunities for people with barriers to the labour market. At the heart of the organisation is the Koeckebackers Impact Programme: a structured learn-and-work pathway in which participants gain work experience, develop practical and social skills, and receive personal guidance towards sustainable employment. Cookie production is deliberately used as a means to this end — enabling real work in a supportive, professional environment. Koeckebackers works with responsibly sourced ingredients and prioritises transparent and fair supply chains wherever possible. This includes the use of Tony’s Open Chain cocoa, contributing to a more equitable cocoa sector. The company supplies its cookies to businesses, offices, hospitality venues and organisations that want to combine quality products with positive social impact. Koeckebackers balances artisanal quality with scalable production, without compromising its social mission or sustainability principles. As a certified B Corp, Koeckebackers is committed to conti
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 17.8
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 26.4
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 21.2
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 23.4
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.
Customers 3.6
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.