Matthew Cox Limited
Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
June 2024
Furniture
Manufacturing
Canada,
France,
Germany,
Ireland,
Italy,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
United Kingdom,
United States
Matthew Cox makes furniture and lighting to be as essential and beautiful in 100 years as it is today. By balancing time-honoured methods with innovative practices, the team creates furniture of exacting simplicity, with each piece elegantly customised to serve its purpose perfectly. The designs express the versatility of fundamental form, and in making generous use of sustainably sourced natural and recycled materials, the company’s love of nature is clear. The skilled finishing of wood, metal and stone conveys the character and warmth of the surface, allowing it to evolve with time and use. As a third-generation antique dealer, Matthew understands what makes furniture stand the test of time. As a designer, he combines this knowledge with the choices that make each commission personal and always out of the ordinary. The company’s 100-year plan considers all aspects of their work, from the future of the furniture they produce, to the practices they develop and the people they employ. By combining their experience of antique restoration with the vibrant skills of the studio and workshop, the team offers a thoughtfully circular customer experience encompassing repair, restoration, repurposing and resale of their furniture.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 16.2
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.
Governance 16.2
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 32.3
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 25.1
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 26.1
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 2.4
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.