What is the Disclosure Questionnaire

The Disclosure Questionnaire allows the company to confidentially disclose to B Lab any sensitive practices, fines, and sanctions related to the company or its partnership with no impact on their score. Typically, the majority of these responses are minor in nature and therefore no further action is needed. In some cases, B Lab identifies one or more items in the Disclosure Questionnaire that merit further transparency, and the Company will be notified that if they proceed with certification, incremental disclosure would be required on the controversial issues webpage.

All Certified B Corps share their B Impact Assessment overall scores and category scores on their public profiles on B Lab Global’s website. Public companies and their subsidiaries have extra transparency requirements and make their entire B Impact Assessment public, with particularly sensitive information like revenue redacted. Companies that have material items on their Disclosure Questionnaire may also be required to make that disclosure transparent as well. Learn more about the requirements for B Corp Certification here.