Epicurean Dairy Ltd - The Collective NZ
Auckland Region, New Zealand
March 2025
Food products
Manufacturing
New Zealand
At The Collective, we’re the dairy shaker-uppers—the undisputed revolutionaries of yoghurt. We take the boring out of dairy, bringing creativity, excitement, and a human touch back to the shelf. Founded in New Zealand in 2009 by two entrepreneurial chefs, The Collective was born from a desire to shake things up and a belief that everyone deserves epic dairy—not just goop in a tub. Our mission is simple: to fight the good food fight. That means making food that’s good for your taste buds, good for the planet, good for our people, and good for the community—proving that truly good-for-you food can be delicious, too. At The Collective, being Straight Up matters. That’s why all our products are free from artificial colours, flavours, and preservatives, and always suitable for vegetarians. We make both dairy and non-dairy plant-based yoghurts, plus sour cream, right here in New Zealand. You’ll find us in supermarkets nationwide—bringing bold flavours and real food to more Kiwis, every day.
Overall B Impact Score
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.
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 22.3
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.
Community 17.2
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 24.7
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 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.