2021 financial stewardship

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$169M

Total revenue in 2021

 

86%

Total sales were from U.S. markets

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Uganda, United Kingdom

2021 employee statistics

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297

Total employees in the U.S.*

*Includes total # of employees on payroll
(not temps) as of 12/31/2021

48

Managers* hired from within

*Managers were classified as those who have people reporting to them, or an individual that manages a key sector of the business individually.

40

Average age of a Dr. Bronner’s employee

Average tenure (years): 6.5
Average turnover: 3.7%

 

63%

Employees are BIPOC*

*Black, Indigenous, and people of color

Race & ethnicity of all employees based on EEO-1 Form*

43%

Managers are BIPOC*

*Black, Indigenous, and people of color

Racial & ethnic diversity in management

$22/hr

Starting permanent position rate

Starting temporary position rate: $20/hr
Compared to CA state min. wage*: +57%
Average annual compensation increase with positive job performance: 6.8%
Average supplemental COVID pay per employee: $3,172.29
Average Annual Stipend Pay for those who qualify: $421.18

Compensation Ratio (CEO to avg. worker)

Dr. Bronner’s caps the pay of our highest-paid executives at 5 times that of our lowest-paid fully vested position. According to a 2021 report published by the Economic Policy Institute,** in 2020 the average CEO pay in the U.S. was 351 times that of the average worker.

*Source: CA State $14.00/hr
**Source: Economic Policy Institute, 2021

*Based on the EEO-1 form, data collection mandated by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from all employers with more than 100 employees. We present this data here as a work in progress, in the interest of being transparant about the racial and ethnic identities of our employees. Currently, what we have collected is more limited than we would like. Dr. Bronner's is committed to continuously improving and evolving the language we use and the approach we take in striving to implement progressive best practices related to fostering social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion in our company, both in general and around this data. We aim to provide more information in future reports, as we become more confident that our employees feel safe and comfortable in their self-reporting and self-identification, especially around sexual orientation, gender, disability, and veteran status, and as we become more competent in collecting this information.

**Non-EEO-1 term

2021 fair trade activity

 

3,958

Total fair trade oil used by Dr. Bronner’s in 2021 (MT)

 

$21,372,321

Total value of fair trade material sourced in 2021 (USD)

 

900

Local jobs created (number of workers)

Male: 622
Female: 278

 

8,942

Total number of smallholder farmers

Male: 6,522
Female: 2,421

 

$973,563

Total value (USD) spent on social community projects

Farmer support: $610,517
Health: $120,727
Education: $49,346
Water & Sanitation: $5,173
Infrastructure: $14,894
Other: $172,906

 

130,589

Total acres under cultivation

Certified Organic: 107,362
Regenerative Organic Certified™: 27,378
In-conversion to organic: 23,227

Number of farmers converted to organic agriculture: 1,343
Acres converted to organic agriculture: 13,719

 

7,397

Smallholder farmers trained in Dynamic Agroforestry (DAF)

Total farm gate purchases (USD): $32,281,566
Value spent on farmer training: $97,616

 

889

Dynamic Agroforestry (DAF) acreage installed

Carbon Farming

Number of trees successfully established: 166,701  
Compost distributed (MT): 29,493 
Percentage of farmers cultivating cover crops: 63%
Percentage of farmers implementing reduced tillage: 30%

2021 U.S. & International Donations: $8,676,560

  • Afro Vegan Society
    Animal Equality (Mexico)
    Animal Justice (Canada)
    Animal Outlook (Formerly Compassion Over Killing)
    Black Veg Fest
    Black Vegans Rock
    Compassion in World Farming UK
    Compassion in World Farming USA
    Earth Species Project
    Encompass
    Factory Farming Awareness Coalition
    Farm Forward
    Farmed Animal Funders
    Good Food Institute
    Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)
    La Raza for Liberation
    Our Hen House
    Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary
    project FANG: Animal Rights Prisoner Support
    Reducetarian Foundation
    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
    Sea Shepherd Global
    Sistah Vegan Project
    SÜPRMARKT (SÜPRSEED)
    Transfarmation Project of Mercy for Animals
    Vegan Outreach
    VINE Sanctuary
    Womxn Funders in Animal Rights
    YEA Camp

  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC) (Shopping Gives)
    Building Bridges Haiti
    Flex Your Rights Foundation
    Gender Blender, a program of Gender Illumination
    Gender Illumination
    Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)
    One Step Closer (OSC2) - JEDI Collaborative
    San Diego Pride - She Fest
    Trans Lifeline
    Dr. Bronner’s Family Foundation: Migration Justice Initiative

  • Blessings of the Forest
    Burning Man Project
    Butte County Local Food Network
    City of Vista, Moonlight Amphitheatre
    Duwara Consciousness Foundation
    Family Giving Plan
    Forging Impact
    Gentle Barn
    Grassroots Aid Partnership
    Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art
    HOPE Network, Inc.
    La Resistencia
    LuvWorks
    Mad Agriculture
    Oceanside Kitchen Collaborative
    QueerDome
    Reclaim Rent Control
    Shopping Gives
    Training Education & Resource Institute (TERI)
    We Are Family DC
    WorldBeat Cultural Center, The Leslie Goldman Enchanted Garden

  • Defy Ventures
    Essie Justice Group
    Fair Shake
    Jail Guitar Doors

  • Americans for Safe Access
    Cascadia
    Chacruna Institute
    Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
    CHEM Global Campus Project
    Church of the Eagle and Condor
    Church of the People for Creator and Mother Earth
    Clarity Project
    DanceSafe
    DRCNet Foundation
    Drug Policy Alliance
    Emerge Law Group
    Enthea
    Erowid Center
    Fireside Project
    Freedom to Operate
    Fruiting Bodies Collective
    Guardian Grange
    Harvard Divinty Project
    Healing Advocacy Fund
    Health Equity Program
    Heffter Research Institute
    Helix Consulting Group
    Heroic Hearts Project
    Horizons PBC
    Impact Fund - TBD Nata Partners
    Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative (IPCI)
    Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas (IRI)
    Innertrek
    International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research & Service (ICEERS)
    LA Equity Fund
    Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP)
    Marijuana Policy Project
    McAllister Garfield, P.C
    Milo Group
    Mimosa
    MIND Foundation gmbh
    Mintwood Strategies
    Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
    Nathan Howard
    New Approach Advocacy Fund
    New Approach PAC
    North Star Project
    Nu Leaf Project
    One Step Closer (OSC2) - Cannabis Collaborative
    Oregon Psilocybin Society
    People of Color Psychedelics Collaborative
    Plant Medicine Coalition
    Plant Medicine Foundation
    Porta Sophia (A Program of Usona Institute)
    Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative
    Rebecca Martinez
    Roots to Sky Sanctuary
    Sacred Garden Community Church
    Sacred Plant Alliance
    School of Consciousness Medicine
    Sia: The Comanche Nation Ethno-Ornithological Initiative
    Society for Psychedelic Outreach, Reform and Education
    Society for Psychedelic Outreach, Reform and Education (SPORE)
    Solstice Group (Formerly Somatic Center of Portland)
    Spearitwurx
    Students for Sensible Drug Policy
    Sun+Earth Support Venture
    Temple Mother Earth
    Temple of the Way of Light
    UMIYAC - United Indigenous Medics of Yahe Amazon of Colombia
    Usona Institute
    Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions
    Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions (VETS)
    Veterans of War
    Vote Hemp
    Zendo Project

  • BioSafety Alliance (Soil not Oil Conf.)
    Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons
    Climate Foundation
    Friends of the Arava Institute
    Friends of the Earth
    Honor the Earth
    Protect Our Winters
    Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
    San Diego Food System Alliance
    Solana Center for Environmental Innovation
    Story of Stuff Project
    Surfrider Foundation
    Wellspring

  • Business for a Fair Minimum Wage
    Fair World Project

  • Breast Cancer Prevention Partners
    Center for Mind Body Medicine
    LifeNabled
    Lupus Foundation of America

  • Cedar Circle Farm and Education Center
    Coastal Roots Farm
    Ecological Farming Association (EcoFarm)
    Ecology Center
    Grain Place Foundation
    Grow Ahead Foundation
    HEAL Food Alliance
    Humboldt County Growers Alliance
    Imlakesh
    Indigenous Regeneration
    Kiss the Ground
    Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES)
    Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)
    OrganicEye, A project of Beyond Pesticides
    Origins Council
    Real Food Generation (Real Food Challenge)
    Real Organic Project
    Regenerative Earth Summit
    Regenerative Organic Alliance
    Sandler Reiff
    Slow Food Urban San Diego
    Soul Fire Farm Institute
    Sun+Earth Certified
    U.S. Right to Know

  • Barrio Botany
    Boys and Girls Club
    Boys and Girls Club of Greater San Diego
    Boys to Men
    Carlsbad Educational Foundation
    Rajepre - Winter Luc
    Safe Horizon (Streetwork Project)
    San Diego Children's Discovery Museum

2021 environmental Footprint

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45,990,844

Total weight (lbs) of all products shipped
including packaging

Net Packaging Content:
Paper: 1,549,906 (lbs) / 3%
Metal: 34,442 (lbs) / <1%
Plastic: 2,522,210 (lbs) / 5%
Glass: 510,495 (lbs) / 1%

 

71%

Total packaging from 100% PCR* material

*Post-Consumer Recycled
**By United States recycling standards

 

1,437,155

Waste Generation Total (lbs)

 

78%

 Fair Trade Certified raw material

75%

Organic Certified raw material

6,750,918

Gallons of water used

 

75,577 Mt

Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Total MT CO2e)†

Scope 1 Direct: 678 (MT CO2e)*
Scope 2 Energy Indirect: 0 (MT CO2e)** Market-based approach
Scope 2 Energy Indirect: 357 (MT CO2e)** Location-based approach
Scope 3 Other Indirect: 74,899 (MT CO2e)***

 

2,051,407

Electricity (kWh) used
We are proud to be 100% Renewably Powered!

Other energy used:
Natural Gas (therms): 79,819
Fuels Used for Vehicles (gal): 19,937
Propane (gal): 1,773

Greenhouse gas emissions are calculated in three “scopes”
*Scope 1 emissions are those from cources we directly own or control (e.g., our vehicles).
**Scope 2 emissions are from the electricity used at our factory. For Scope 2 emissions, we report both market-based and location-based figures following the GHG Protocol. Location-based emissions (357 MT CO2e) reflect the non-renewable electricity we used from the local grid. Market-based emissions (0 MT CO2e) reflect the renewable energy certificates (RECs) that Dr. Bronner’s purchases from Midwestern pollinator-friendly solar projects through our partnership with Organic Valley and OneEnergy, We are proud to be 100% Renewably Powered!
***Scope 3 emissions are from our activities related to sources outside of our direct control (e.g., supply chain emissions, shipping, travel).

† Total based on market-based approach

2021 B Impact assessment

 

178

Dr. Bronner’s B Impact Score

As a benefit corporation, we are committed to measuring our social and environmental performance according to an independent third-party standard. We’ve selected the B Impact Assessment standard developed by the nonprofit B Lab for its rigor and integrity. The assessment results demonstrate that we are exceeding our benefit corporation goals by rigorous measures. Additionally, B Lab's Best for the World™ recognizes the B Corps globally whose B Impact Assessment scores rank in the top five percent of their company size track across one or more of the five impact areas evaluated on the Assessment—community, customers, environment, governance, and workers. In 2021, we were honored as both “Best for the World: Community” and “Best for the World: Environment”.

 

Environment

Median Score*: 12
Dr. Bronner’s Score: 65

Workers

Median Score*: 24
Dr. Bronner’s Score: 29

Customers

Median Score*: 8
Dr. Bronner’s Score: 0

Community

Median Score*: 27
Dr. Bronner’s Score: 69

Governance

Median Score*: 13
Dr. Bronner’s Score: 15

*The median B Impact Assessment score for businesses in 2021

2021 International giving

Localized mission-aligned brand activism is a priority for Dr. Bronner’s and our distributors in the countries we sell our products in outside of the United States. We dedicate at least 1% of sales to international markets to this program annually across three categories: Social Justice, Environment, and Animal Advocacy.

  • Funds from US budget and Dr. Bronner’s Germany are not included in the individual country totals or overall total.

    Medical Volunteers International**
    (Social Justice)

    Nepada Wildlife**
    (Animal Advocacy/Environment)

    Sauti Kuu Foundation**
    (Social Justice)

    Sea Shepherd Global*
    (Animal Advocacy/Environment)

    *Funded through US Animal Advocacy budget
    **Funded through Dr. Bronner’s Germany

  • Eat Up
    (Social Justice)

    Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network
    (Environment)

    Voiceless
    (Animal Advocacy)

  • Animal Justice*
    (Animal Advocacy)

    Black Lives Matter Canada
    (Social Justice)

    Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund
    (Social Justice)

    Indigenous Climate Action
    (Environment)

    Regeneration Canada
    (Environment)

    Rivershed Society of BC
    (Environment)

  • Assietes Vegetales
    (Animal Advocacy)

    La Vie Active
    (Social Justice)

  • People, People, People
    (Social Justice)

    PROVIEH
    (Animal Advocacy)

    Together for Future
    (Environment)

    Transformation Haus & Feld
    (Environment)

  • Eden Farmed Animal Sanctuary
    (Animal Advocacy)

    VOICE Ireland
    (Environment)

  • Berbagi Sarapan
    (Social Justice)

  • Freedom Farm Sanctuary
    (Animal Advocacy)

    The Arava Institute
    (Environment)

  • Homedoor
    (Social Justice)

    National Organic Agriculture
    Promotion Council
    (Environment)

    Shizen
    (Environment)

  • G Foundation
    (Social Justice)

    Korean Animal Rights Advocates
    (Animal Advocacy)

    Korean Animal Welfare Association
    (Animal Advocacy)

    Korean Federation for
    Environmental Movement
    (Environment)

  • Animal Equality (Mexico)*
    (Animal Advocacy)

    Hurakaan
    (Environment)

    Reinserta
    (Social Justice)

    Sbelal Kuxlejalil
    (Social Justice)

  • Costa Recicla
    (Environment)

    Prospera
    (Social Justice)

  • Centre for a Responsible Future
    (Animal Advocacy)

    Kampung Senang
    (Environment)

    Oogachaga
    (Social Justice)

  • Djurens Rätt
    (Animal Advocacy)

    Plogga
    (Environment)

  • Hof Narr
    (Animal Advocacy)

  • Taiwan Environmental Information Association
    (Environment)

    Taiwan Animal Equality Association
    (Animal Advocacy)

  • S.P.E.A.K
    (Social Justice)

  • Ecohustler
    (Environment)

    Emmaus Brighton & Hove
    (Social Justice)

    Less Plastic UK
    (Environment)

    Surge
    (Animal Advocacy)

 
 
 

In all we do, let us be generous, fair & loving to Spaceship Earth and all its inhabitants. For we're All-One or None!

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