Sector
Food & Drink
Solutions
360˚ Assessment
CO2 Reduction Strategy
B Corp Certification
Sustainability Report
Minor Figures is a cold brew coffee and oat milk company based in the UK. They’re in two rapidly expanding markets: speciality coffee and dairy alternative milk.
Challenge & Objective
Minor Figures has been growing fast over the last couple of years. In the last 12 months alone they’ve doubled their team size and have become the number one best-selling oat milk on Amazon UK.
Their growth is very important to them, but so is taking responsibility for their impact. Ecofye represented an opportunity for Minor Figures to take their sustainability journey to the next level whilst ensuring their growth remained on a steep upward trajectory.
We partnered with Minor Figures to help them achieve their short-term sustainability goals and plan out their longer-term strategy.
MF had short-term goals for 2020 of:
Understanding their key opportunities for sustainable growth
Becoming a B Corp
Sharing their sustainability journey with their audience
Reaching carbon neutrality
Identifying Key Areas for Improvement
The obvious place for us to start was our 360˚ Assessment. This allowed us and Minor Figures to identify what actions should be prioritised in the short-term. The 360˚ Assessment was also invaluable in developing a Climate Strategy for Minor Figures. Based on their goals, we developed a set of tailored solutions that would both reduce their carbon footprint and increase their B Corp score. Solutions included:
Methodology to monitor, target, and track sustainability performance
Developing a stronger supplier sustainability engagement process
Implementing a circular approach to their supply chain
Disclosing their impact and positive practices
Balancing Profit and Purpose - B Corp Becoming a B Corp was one of Minor Figures main targets for 2020. COVID-19 did threaten this as the team had to shift much of their focus towards e-commerce. However, having Ecofye onboard to manage their B Corp progress mean’t they could keep it as a primary objective. We performed a gap analysis to work out what the most efficient way would be for Minor Figures to reach beyond the 80 point threshold needed to become a B Corp. We then set our an action plan and got to work. By the end, we didn’t just reach 80 points, we hit an impressive 94 points! How did we do it? Well, part of the success was down to becoming B Leaders, having completed B Corp’s official UK training programme. This helped hugely because we gained useful tips & tricks on how to boost their score even further.
"Ecofye's 360 Assessment highlighted our sustainability strengths and weaknesses and helped us improve our B Corp score."
Thibault Guenat - Minor Figures