The Unscented Company (Baleco Inc.)
Quebec, Canada
June 2015
Cleaning products
Wholesale/Retail
Canada,
United States
While traveling the world in 2003, Anie quickly realized the urgency of taking action to reduce the impact of our day-to-day actions on the environment. With The Unscented Company, Anie Rouleau is shaping the company of tomorrow—one that embraces a sustainable and profitable business model that prioritizes the common good. Born in Montreal to a family of entrepreneurs, she founded The Unscented Company in 2016 with the goal of redefining the notion of clean by offering a line of natural, unscented home and body care products. Her innovative products defy established norms and prove that efficiency can be synonymous with sustainability. Anie Rouleau is a pioneering leader reshaping the future of sustainable business. As the founder of The Unscented Company, Anie redefines the notion of clean with innovative and natural home and body care products. With a dedication to sustainability and social impact, Anie champions refillable packaging and waterless products, combating single-use plastics and protecting waterways. An advocate for the B Corp model, she promotes local sourcing, ethical leadership, and equal opport Anie encourages the adoption of refillable packaging and solid, waterless products—a concrete solution to help eliminate single-use plastic and protect our waterways.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 15.8
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 28.2
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 21.8
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 32.2
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 3.5
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.