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Dr. Bronner All One Report 2015 Inallwedo, letusbe generous,fair &lovingto SpaceshipEarth andallits inhabitants. Forwe’reAll-One or None! All-One! DR. BRONNER’S 2015 ALL-ONE! REPORT DR. BRONNER’S 2 ALL-ONE! REPORT We are family soapmakers committed to honor- ing the vision of our founder, Dr. E.H. Bronner, by making socially and environmentally re- sponsible products of the highest quality, and by dedicating our pro!ts to help make a better world. All-One! # $ % &' % ! " $ 1st: Work hard! Grow! $ ) ! + & ( " * % * !- # % # # % % " $ p. 8 " $ ! ! 2nd: 3rd: Do right Treat employees by customers like family p. 14 p. 20 + + % . $ " & , % " # # ) / " # # ! ! $ 4th: 5th: Be fair Treat the earth * * to suppliers ( ! " 0 like home # , ) " - p. 26 ! p. 34 6th: Give and give! p. 40 ALL-ONE! REPORT 3 LETTER TO SPACESHIP EARTH DEAR SPACESHIP EARTH PEOPLE: We are excited to share how hard we rocked 2014 in our rst o cial “corpo- rate social responsibility” report, as well as introduce deeper background into our company and family history. We have the responsibility to boldly and wisely use this amazing engine our grandfather built to drive positive social and environmental change, as well as hook people up with the best soap in the world. Our grandfather ran the family enterprise as a non-pro t religious orga- nization, using the soaps to promote his All-One vision of peace and unity. We honor our grandfather’s vision by capping executive salaries at 5 to 1 and dedicating all pro ts not needed for the business to worthwhile causes and charities. We ensure employee wages and bene ts are generous and fair, and our major supply chains are ethical and sustainable. Along with this rst CSR report,we’re publishing the collected writings of our grandfather, what he called the “The Moral ABC” of the great All-One- God-Faith he espoused. We recommend checking that out, and our intro- duction there gives further insight into the man and his vision. Like many, as young children we were a bit mysti ed by the intensity of our granddad’s trip. He was 24-7 bringing his message of All-One unity and love hard from the mountaintop and a lot of it sailed over our heads. But as we matured and came to terms with a world lled with tragedy and hate along with love and kindness, we increasingly got down with his All-One One-Love vision of breaking down the barriers that separate humanity across ethnic and religious divides. We hope you enjoy reading here how we have grown and thrown ourselves behind causes and charities that are helping make the world a better,more loving place.In all we do,let us be loving,fair & generous to Spaceship Earth and all its inhabitants. All-One! DAVID BRONNER President MIKE BRONNER Vice President DR. BRONNER’S 4 ALL-ONE! REPORT Dr. Emanuel Bronner ALL-ONE! REPORT 5 ABOUT DR. BRONNER As taught by The Moral ABC, the real Rabbi Hillel taught Jesus to unite all mankind free!!! 1st: If I’m not for me, who am I? Nobody! 2nd: Yet, if I’m only for me, what am I? Nothing! 3rd: If not now,When???!!! Once more, unless constructive I work hard, perfecting With the rise of the counterculture, people increasingly rejected HOW THIS WHOLE mainstream faceless polluting corporate America,and embraced our rst me,absolute nothing can help perfect me! Exceptions none!! CRAZY TRIP STARTED grandfather’s soap for its simplicity, versatility and biodegradability, DAVID BRONNER President and grooved on the message of peace and love. You could wash your Dr. Emanuel (or Emil) Bronner was a third-generation master soap- dog, dishes, body and clothes by the river and not worry about it, and maker born into a German-Jewish soapmaking family that had been the soap became the iconic soap of the era. Dr. Bronner ran his com- making soap since 1858. By the turn of the century the family enter- pany, All-One-God-Faith, Inc., as a nonpro t religious organization, prise had expanded to three factories, the largest of which was in and he dreamed of the day when humanity would lightning-like realize Heilbronn, where Dr. Bronner was born in 1909. He was trained in the our transcendent unity and awaken in a new birth, catalyzed in part guild system of the time and received a degree in chemistry. by the message on his soap labels. Dr. Bronner used all of his pro ts Our grandfather was pretty intense from day one, and in his to further his mission and support various sustainable projects and early 20s repeatedly clashed with his strict orthodox father and two causes. uncles over his Zionist beliefs and new-fangled soapmaking ideas. IRS 4th But the disagreed with his self-designated tax-exempt status : Only hard work-God’s Law can save us, but if we teach only our clan, we’re all hated then! So, Hillel taught Jesus, we must teach friend & enemywork,race,& human hard truth-press,friend pro whole the only full & Jesus,teach So, the Law speech teach then! us,must Only taught we : clan,hated we Hillel save if our all work-God’s but can hard we’re His parents, like many bourgeois Jews in the late ’20s and early ’30s, and in the late ’80s forced the company into bankruptcy. Due to Dr. expected the madness of the rising tide of fascist hate to blow over Bronner’s failing health, our dad Jim, along with our mom Trudy and and didn’t want Emil rocking the boat. Our grandfather eventually Uncle Ralph, stepped in to right the ship and exit bankruptcy as a got fed up and immigrated to the U.S. in 1929, where he became a for-pro t company, but they held true to the non-pro t DNA and consultant to the U.S. soap industry, helping to design factories and vision that informed everything our grandfather did. launch products. We grew up working with our dad, who not only oversaw soap Increasingly alarmed by the rise of Hitler, he repeatedly tried to production for Dr.Bronner’s,but formed his own chemical consulting get his family to leave Nazi Ger- many.His younger sisters got out, but his parents stayed until it was too late. The Nazis nationalized In the midst of this 1940 the factory in and Emil’s rst me,like every arctic owl-penguin-pilot-cat-swallow-beaver-bee,can I teachThe MoralABC,the real Rabbi Hillel taughtJesus to unite all mankind free. parents were deported and killed in the camps. By this time our grandfather massive personal 1934 had fallen in love and in mar- sh I work,I sh perfecting ried our grandmother,Paula.They had three children: Ellen, Ralph, tragedy,our grand- and our dad Jim. Paula was often sick and in and out of hospitals, and died too young in 1944. father experienced Somehow in the midst of this massive personal tragedy, our grandfather experienced intense mystical love and the oneness of intense mystical humanity.That we are all children of one everloving divine source. That in our ignorant blindness love and the oneness we’ll destroy ourselves,especially in a nuclear-armed world. He felt urgently called to his All-One mis- sion to convince the public and of humanity. world leaders alike that we must company (Bronner Chemical) where he developed —among other recognize our transcendent unity across ethnic and religious divides things — re- ghting foam, still widely used today to ght structure or we will perish. We’re All-One or None! All-One! In the postwar era, diverse industries were using petrochemicals and forest res. Our dad, mom and uncle implemented progressive t-sharing MoralABC’sAll-One-God-Faith,uniting the whole in everything from plastics to agriculture to personal care. Synthetic employee policies at Dr.Bronner’s,and continued to use the company pro ts to fund worthwhile causes,in particular afterschool programs detergents were rapidly replacing natural soaps. With my grandfa- ther’s quality soap recipes no longer in vogue, he started to manu- for disadvantaged youth. facture them himself, selling his soaps on the side after lectures as Dr. Bronner passed peacefully in his sleep on March 7, 1997, and he toured the country pumping people up on his All-One peace plan. tragically our dad was diagnosed soon after with lung cancer and He soon realized, though, that people were coming to his lectures for died just a year later, but not before we shared an intense year of the soap more than to hear what he had to say, so he started putting learning from him the ropes of ethical business and life. Inspired by his message on the labels. Pretty genius move to communicate with the examples of both our dad and grandfather,we seek to honor them people in their intimate bathing space. in everything we do. is greater than whatever divides us!Yet if absolute unsel sh I am not for me,I’m nothing but classless,race-less masses,a slave,never free nor brave! Only if constructive-sel 5th : Whatever unites us us unites Whatever : None!!! Eternally?Absolute Exceptions ” “ One! year the since Israel, & Abraham astronomers the years 6,000 for teach As None! or All-One we’re For Race! Human DR. BRONNER’S 6 ALL-ONE! REPORT 1930 1929 Emil’s powerful personality, Zionist ideals and ideas for modern soapmaking lead to 1930s clashes with father and Emil advises U.S. soap and chemical specialty uncles — emigrates to U.S. manufacturers.With rise of Hitler, drops“Heil”from 1920s last name.
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