Flynn & Flynn Global Trade Ltd t/a The Happy Pear
County Wicklow, Ireland
May 2025
Food products
Manufacturing
Ireland,
United Kingdom
The Happy Pear is a plant-based food and lifestyle brand founded in 2004 by twin brothers Dave and Steve Flynn with a simple mission: to help people eat more vegetables and live healthier, happier lives. What began as a small fruit and veg shop in Greystones, Ireland, has since grown into a multifaceted business with a global reach and a vibrant community at its heart. Today, The Happy Pear offers a wide range of over 80 plant-based food products sold in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the UK, spanning categories such as fresh meals, dips, sauces, snacks, and breakfast staples. The brand also runs a popular healthy living app featuring plant-based recipes and lifestyle courses, active in more than 100 countries around the world. In Greystones, The Happy Pear operates a thriving café and retail outlet, as well as a 4-acre regenerative organic farm that supplies fresh produce to the local community. The Flynn twins are also the authors of multiple international bestselling cookbooks, with over 500,000 copies sold globally. With more than 2 million followers across social media and over 50 million YouTube views, The Happy Pear continues to inspire people worldwide to embrace healthier, more sustainable living—through food, community, and positive change.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 17.0
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 19.0
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 16.5
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.
Environment 24.4
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.
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 4.0
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.