Bread 41
Bread 41 is an Organic bakery located in inner city Dublin. As a business, they make mindful business decisions that connect the environmental impact, the prosperity and welfare of the team members, customers, and suppliers as well as the enrichment of the communities they live and work in with a strong focus on business sustainability and ethical growth.
The vision of Bread41 is to create a movement that reaches into every community throughout the island of Ireland and their purpose is “we want everyone to get back to eating real bread and to appreciate real handcrafted pastries, amazing seasonal food and to drive exceptional hospitality in a sustainable way.
"We are striving towards being a zero waste food business. Through data analytics we only produce what is required for any given day while any food waste from our eatery is managed through decongesters onsite to turn any food waste into compost which in turn returns to the land of the farmers we use."
The bakery is also currently working to the B Corp framework and has submitted for B Corp certification while they also closely align with the SDG framework. The focus has been put on SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), SDG Goal 2 (Zero Hunger), along with SDG 4 (Education).
The bakery further aims to exemplify that within the food industry especially, there is a need for empowerment regarding sustainability and that it is possible to make an impact. Climate change, food waste, biodiversity loss and labour practices are among the many challenges facing our industry today. Addressing these sustainability challenges requires collaboration and collective action across the food industry, from producers and manufacturers to retailers and consumers and an alignment to frameworks like B Corp/SDG models to help businesses migrate towards a more sustainable future.
The biggest challenges facing our industry largely relate currently to the inflationary cost pressures which are continuing and show no sign of abatement. The representatives of Bread41 do however believe that this represents an opportunity for businesses to become more sustainable as we have categorically shown by moving towards zero waste and sustainable business models you can save a considerable amount of money.
