Vaela Limited
London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom
August 2023
Apparel
Wholesale/Retail
Italy,
Portugal,
United Kingdom
Vaela’s mission is to make cycling easier, better looking and even more sustainable by producing subtly innovative women’s clothing that works brilliantly on and off the bike. Think daywear not sportswear. The first collection: cycling jeans for women (ranked #1 by the Discerning Cyclist), a multifunctional bag, and a beautifully cut jacket. Plus belts, made from decommissioned fire-hose, in partnership with Elvis & Kresse. Sustainable by design: Vaela clothes are the opposite of fast fashion. They are designed and made to be sustainable from the outset. Paying acute attention to every element - from fabric selection and zip provenance to the design of the seams – and test extensively in wearer trials on real women going about their daily lives on their bikes. ReVaela programme: Vaela offers free repairs of material and construction flaws for the practical lifetime of our products. If a product cannot be repaired, customers have the option to have it returned, remade into something else, or recycled. “ I lived and died in them, wearing them on my various commutes around town and choosing to wear them for general day to day.” Rouleur Commuter Guide
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 18.4
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 18.4
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.
Community 69.0
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.
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 13.4
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.
Customers 4.7
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.