PACCARI

Certified B Corporation
Headquarters

Pichincha Province, Ecuador

Certified Since

November 2016

Industry

Agricultural Processing

Sector

Agriculture/Growers

Operates In

Ecuador

Santiago Peralta, founder of the company, is a man with a mission: to change the history of chocolate in his native country. In less than four years, the company, a family-owned business operated by Peralta and his wife Carla Barbotó, has revolutionized the industry in both Ecuador and Latin America by creating a transparent model of tree-to-bar manufacturing based on innovation, ecological and social responsibility, and direct trade with certified organic farms throughout the country. Peralta and his company benefit more than 3,500 farming families. “We are intimately connected to cacao farmers and their needs, and we work with them in many important ways: to help them improve cacao yields, in implementing programs of organic and biodynamic certification, even creating a school of organic agriculture (COLEGIO CEFA),” Peralta explains. “Sometimes our help might seem intangible like buying donkeys for a disabled farmer to ease his work load, or reducing the weight of cacao bags so that women can carry these bags more easily to local markets, but these small things also matter and are proof of our commitment to a direct model of interaction that puts the farmer first.”

Overall B Impact Score

Based on the B Impact assessment, PACCARI earned an overall score of 93.9. The median score for ordinary businesses who complete the assessment is currently 50.9.
93.9
93.9 Overall B Impact Score
80 Qualifies for B Corp Certification
50.9 Median Score for Ordinary Businesses

Governance 12.9

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.

Mission & Engagement0.7
Ethics & Transparency2.0
+ Mission Locked10

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 16.3

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.

Financial Security3.0
Health, Wellness, & Safety6.0
Career Development0.8
Engagement & Satisfaction2.5

Community 25.2

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.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion2.3
Economic Impact5.7
Civic Engagement & Giving0.9
Supply Chain Management5.6
+ Supply Chain Poverty Alleviation8.8

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.


Environment 38.8

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.

Environmental Management2.9
Air & Climate5.1
Water0.7
Land & Life10.2
+ Toxin Reduction / Remediation12

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 0.5

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.

Customer Stewardship0.5


Previous Overall B Impact Scores

2024 Overall B Impact Score93.9
2020 Overall B Impact Score93.4
2016 Overall B Impact Score102.6

Additional Documentation

Disclosure Report 2024


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