HelloFresh UK
Hackney, United Kingdom
July 2021
Food products
Wholesale/Retail
Germany,
United Kingdom
HelloFresh UK (including Green Chef UK) is the first global carbon-neutral recipe box company, providing easy-to-follow recipe cards with all the fresh, seasonal ingredients for people to make meals at home. Founded in 2012 with a mission to change the way people eat forever, they are now the UK’s number one recipe box company. With over 37 different recipes for customers to choose every week, they cater for all kinds of tastes and lifestyles. From traditional British dishes to globally-inspired flavours, as well as vegetarian options and quick 20 minute meals, HelloFresh prioritise sourcing local British products so only fresh and seasonal ingredients are supplied to their customers. All the recipe ingredients arrive pre-measured in the right amounts so there’s less food to waste. In fact, HelloFresh customers waste 21% less food than those buying from supermarkets. Any surplus food HelloFresh have at their packing facility is donated to people in need, thanks to their long-standing partnership with London based charity, The Felix Project. Helping to fight hunger by giving fresh, nutritious food to schools and people in need. Constantly innovating across the company, HelloFresh is wholly committed to providing a more sustainable way for people to prepare and enjoy food.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 13.3
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.
Governance 13.3
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 23.6
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 23.3
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 19.6
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.
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 3.8
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.