In 2021, as NATIVA we supported financial institutions in equipping their offerings with innovative products that integrate environmental and social aspects and supported beneficiary companies in accessing these types of products.   In 2020 Larry Fink, CEO and Chairman of BlackRock, wrote to companies in which the fund participated, “Without a Vocation, no company, public […]

RCS Sport has decided to map the environmental and social impacts of its two flagship events, Enel Milano Marathon and Giro d’Italia to guide the sustainable planning of its future editions. The project involves the entire ecosystem in a quantitative and qualitative measurement and analysis. The results found will be narrated in a dedicated report. […]

With the support of NATIVA, Civibank rewrites the way of banking, combining the pursuit of profit with the objectives of common benefit through the acquisition of the legal status of Benefit Society.   Protecting its mission over the long term. This is a priority for CiviBank, which was founded in 1886 as the Cooperative Bank […]

A coalition of Italian companies come together to place their commitment to climate neutrality on par with profit. They will honor this commitment in their corporate bylaws so they can meet the necessary conditions to address the climate crisis and honor European emission goals.   CO2alizione Italia, the initiative joined by more than sixty Italian companies to […]

The fifth edition of B Heroes, the program for innovation and promotion of new businesses launched in 2018 that has accompanied dozens of startups on paths of growth anddevelopment, has concluded. On June 20, the final step of the 2022 edition was held at the Milan headquarters of McKinsey & Company (one of many B Heroes partners). […]

The B Corp certification rewards companies that are committed to generating a positive impact for the environment and the community; Feudi di San Gregorio is the first winery in Southern Italy to achieve this milestone.   Feudi di San Gregorio, a southern Italian winery and one of Italy’s leading wine brands, continues its journey toward […]

‘Un’Impresa Possibile,’ the new book by our founders Paolo Di Cesare and Eric Ezechieli on transitioning the business world to more sustainable and regenerative models, is available online and in bookstores.   Ten thousand years ago, with the invention of agriculture, the human species began its inexorable competition with all other species. The process has […]

Since 2020, NATIVA has been supporting the sustainability journey of Sanofi Consumer Healthcare Global, leading to progressive improvements in the company’s impact and the transformation of Sanofi Consumer Healthcare North America, Germany, Latin America and Italy into B Corps. In Italy, we have additionally assisted Sanofi Consumer Healthcare in the transformation process into a Benefit […]

Designing and thinking about buildings with the wellbeing of people and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in mind. This is one of the challenges that companies will face in the coming years. This has been understood by the Chiesi Group and the Davines Group, which have chosen to adopt international frameworks for assessing the […]

“Be a good ancestor. Plant trees whose shade you will never see.” Principle of Whakapapa, genealogy at the foundation of Maori culture. What does it mean to be good ancestors? What opportunities and responsibilities does this concept imply for an entrepreneur? What emerges when almost 300 Italian family businesses collectively ask themselves this question, identifying […]

Together we can come out better than before, working for the good of people and the planet. That’s what B Corps do, companies that follow a new idea of business: responsible, sustainable, transparent. Help us to #UnlockTheChange.

Nativa, together with the other Italian B Corps, has launched the campaign Unlock The Change all over Italy, to promote a new business model attentive to people and planet.

Nativa, Together With Other Leading Italian Companies, Has Established The Regenerative Society Foundation, To Promote A New Regenerative Economic Paradigm.

An Italian excellence, supported by Nativa, achieves the B Corp certification becoming an example in all Europe.   The Business School of Politecnico di Milano has obtained the B Corp certification, which ensures that a company operates according to the highest standards of social and environmental performance. This is excellent news for the whole country, […]

Even listed companies can operate according to the highest sustainability standards in the world. If this aspect was clear thanks to an international example such as Danone, we now have confirmation in Italy as well.

An innovative model for Geox

Nativa accompanies companies in innovation processes guided by sustainability principles that strategically involve all areas of activity. In the construction sector, the quality of environments and the positive impact on people are at the centre of evolution strategies. For Geox, the program involved the new company restaurant at the headquarters in Montebelluna. Not just a […]

In collaboration with Nativa, Enel has assessed itself with B Impact Assessment as a standard of corporate responsibility and transparency

NEW:DO™ Collection is the new Geox footwear line inspired by the principles of sustainable innovation stemming from the collaboration with Nativa. A new footwear concept in which every material is selected to minimise its overall impact and the design is reviewed to achieve maximum simplicity and limit the use of resources. NEW:DO™ Collection, a new way of doing things.

The design choices adopted for the new Zordan headquarters are aimed at setting up a building organism that interprets the functional needs and at the same time transmits to the local community the iconic value of the Zordan family’s entrepreneurial tradition in the Valdagno area. A museum at the entrance tells visitors over 50 years of company history and makes employees participate every day in the long tradition.

The Fratelli Carli District represents one of the best international examples of mobilising a Supply Chain. Through the Code of Goodness, a document written by 30 authors, the entire chain was seriously and thoroughly involved. The goal is to strive to implement the model of the Regenerative Company that innovates to maximise the positive impact on employees, the environment and the communities in which it operates.

By anticipating the legal requirement by one year, OVS, accompanied by Nativa, drafted its first sustainability report, A better future for all, transforming the regulatory obligation into a tool to collect and share intermediate progress and an opportunity to communicate and enhance company reputation.

Adoption of the best green building practices in shop fitting represents the new challenge that Italian brands such as Gianni Versace, KIKO and OVS have undertaken with the objective of meeting the commitments taken in terms of impact on the environment and on people.

Since 2016, there has been a corporate legal status in Italy that has the potential to redefine the course of capitalism.  More than 500 companies have already adopted it. From the article by Paolo Di Cesare and Eric Ezechieli published on ilsole24ore.com

Over the past few months, the pandemic crisis has revealed the fragility of the currently existing economic models, whichn do not contribute to the creation of positive value toward people, society and the environment. The unprecedented moments we have experienced, however, have trained us to imagine the unthinkable, allowing our minds to open the door […]

B Corp Certification as a recognition of a twenty-year path to sustainability: this is the case of Fileni, a leading company in the production of organic Italian meat, which has chosen a new economic paradigm aimed at creating shared welfare for people and the planet.   On January 11th, 2023, B Lab published a statement […]

The former captain of the Italian National Rugby Team joins the Regenerative Design Company to contribute to the diffusion of sustainable paradigms in the sports and large events system.   After 107 international matches played with the Italian National Rugby team with which he wore the captain’s armband 17 times and as a professional athlete […]

The Intesa Sanpaolo Group rewards companies that commit to concrete and proven actions to improve their ESG profile. A result achieved with the support of Nativa.

The sustainability education campaign launched by Nativa and the Italian B Corps which is sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Education is dedicated to Italian girls and boys.   The current crisis of sustainability, the result of the traditional economic model – focused on profit alone – is increasingly showing its effects. Environmental and social […]

Nativa and Arkage working together to improve the positive impact of companies through communication, as a fundamental tool to accelerate the transition.   In Italy and around the world, sustainability is increasingly directing consumer choices and influencing the value of brands. Making it an integral part of their business model and knowing how to communicate […]

We have officially launched Impacto, the tool created to allow all Benefit Corporations (Società Benefit) to write their Impact Report in simplicity, autonomy and in compliance with legal requirements.   Simplify the process of writing the Impact Report, providing a comprehensive, systematic and intuitive tool that can meet all legal requirements at the same time. […]

The OVS Sustainability Report, the result of years of collaboration of Nativa with the group, comes in first place in the Sustainability Report Award created by Corriere della Sera and Bologna Business School.   The fashion industry is complicated on a sustainability standpoint because the impacts of this industry are enormous: it is estimated to […]

The Jova Beach Party has chosen NATIVA for the measurement of its social and environmental impacts, with the will to improve over time and aspire to regenerate people, communities and the environment.   Jova Beach Party was not born as a simple concert, but as a real party that also wants to be a moment […]

The goal of climate neutrality by 2050 set by the European Union also poses the business world to rethink the economic and cultural paradigms adopted so far. A transition that, beyond regulations, represents an imperative and an opportunity. Imperative because in the coming months and years all companies will be called upon to address the […]

illycaffè becomes the first Italian coffee company to receive the certification that identifies those companies that operate according to the highest standards of social and environmental performance, showing how it is possible to integrate sustainable and regenerative models into the coffee industry.

The severity of the ongoing sustainability crisis confronts us with the imperative of a transition to ‘regenerative’ economic models, i.e. those that create significant value and positive impact not only for shareholders but also for all other stakeholders. All companies in the coming years will be called to transform and embrace a culture in which […]

In Italy an unprecedented commitment in business in favor of people and the planet: this is what emerges from the annual report of Nativa. A year in which the world came to a standstill. But also a year in which the transition towards the stakeholder paradigm has undergone an unprecedented acceleration. This is what emerges […]

The company, a center of excellence for the Group’s Cloud and Edge computing solutions, has expanded its corporate purpose to operate in an increasingly sustainable and transparent manner with respect to the reference ecosystem.

The human species (including us), imprints a footprint on Planet Earth, sometimes positive and sometimes negative. Most of the time this impact is generated in an unconscious and distracted way, with devastating consequences on our social and natural systems. To this, Nativa responds with a handprint, an intentional positive impact that represents the practical application […]

Florim and Sassuolo Hospital, with the support of Nativa, designed and implemented a system for measuring the social impact generated by its Health&Training Center, with the aim of managing direct and indirect results. “Companies generally do not take into consideration the social impacts into their decision-making processes because they are more difficult to understand and […]