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Lighting the way since 1870

For over 150 years we've been crafting our candles to honour our heritage and to ensure the highest quality. Through the magic of the flame, we create billions of moments to enable everyone of us to reconnect with ourselves and our loved ones. While doing so, we take responsibility in contributing to a better planet.

Our mission

We are here to create products of superior quality that share the magic of the flame to reconnect people with themselves and their loved ones, for now and generations to come.

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Our objective

To be the leading candle company in Europe with love for People and the Planet.

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We are a certified B Corp

We are delighted to have joined the B corp movement. As a B Corp, we're part of a global community of businesses that meet high standards of social and environmental impact. Organizations that use their business as a force of good. It marks the beginning of our journey towards continuous improvement and collective action.

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I want to enable people to experience more than 3 billion magical moments of connection every year. We strive to leave the planet in a better way that we found it by committing the Bolsius Group to the Paris agreement and focusing on our emission reductions.

– Marco-Paul Meinen, CEO

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Our impact

We are serious about sustainability

The Bolsius Group endorses the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and is fully committed to the Paris Agreement – by focusing on a drastic reduction of GHG-emissions. Why, you might wonder? Because, with our rich heritage of over 150 years, we strongly believe that it is our responsibility to keep our world a liveable, healthy and safe place for future generations to come.

We are conscious that a significant part of our footprint is connected to the sourcing and combustion of oil by-products used in our candles. To improve, we have developed our Impact Strategy, which is based on three pillars: Reduce, Care & Engage. These pillars guide our decision-making process at all different levels. We have already invested significant resources to develop and implement numerous short-term solutions, and we are currently working on a Multi-criteria Life Cycle Assessment to support strategic sustainable wax sourcing for a brighter future!

We value transparency

Find out about the raw materials we use, our plans to use more sustainable raw materials, and our GHG emissions - scope 1, 2 and 3, decarbonisation plans, and SBTi goals.

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Lighting the way since 1870

Our mission

Our objective

We are a certified B Corp

I want to enable people to experience more than 3 billion magical moments of connection every year. We strive to leave the planet in a better way that we found it by committing the Bolsius Group to the Paris agreement and focusing on our emission reductions.

Our impact

We are serious about sustainability

We value transparency

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