We First delivers strategy, training and content that ensure brands define, integrate, and share their purpose.

ESG, B2B

Avery Dennison

After building a reputation for corporate responsibility and sustainability-led innovation, Avery Dennison, a materials science company, was looking to establish a sustainability…
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Purpose

Mammut

Mammut Sports Group AG is a Swiss multinational mountaineering and trekking company founded in 1862 and headquartered in Seon, Switzerland. Widely-regarded as the preeminent…
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Start-Up, Purpose

Muniq

Inspired by the memory of his beloved little sister, Monica, who lost her life to diabetes, Marc Washington wanted to create better nutrition solutions that she would have loved using scientific…
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Enterprise, Purpose, VC-Backed

Veggie Grill

Veggie Grill is the only 100% plant-based fast casual restaurant chain and a leader of a rapidly growing plant-based movement. In order to capitalize on this position, it wanted to expand…
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VC-Backed

Sixty South

Nova Austral is a Chilean salmon farmer and processor, owned by the private equity companies Altor Fund III and Bain Capital with operations located in Chile’s Region XII, the Magellanes…
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Enterprise, B2B

VF Corporation

VF Corporation has a portfolio that includes many of the most popular footwear, apparel and workwear brands in the world including The North Face, Timberland, Dickies, and Vans…
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ESG

Sony Pictures Television

Sony Pictures Television realized that the entertainment industry as a whole was lagging behind the marketplace in terms of purpose and, specifically, sustainability directed towards…
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Purpose

TOMS

TOMS, the groundbreaking social enterprise, had a new ownership partner in Bain Capital in 2015. Based on research by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the brand discovered that while…
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