Blooming Haus Wins Planet Mark’s Prestigious “Best Company” Award

We’re thrilled to announce that Blooming Haus has been recognised as Planet Mark’s “Best Company” 2025

– an award that celebrates organisations demonstrating outstanding results across all aspects of sustainable business practice: Measure, Engage, and Communicate.

As the world’s only Planet Mark and B Corp certified event company and florist, this recognition validates our belief that sustainable luxury floristry isn’t just possible – it’s the future of our industry.

What This Award Means

The Planet Mark “Best Company” award isn’t given lightly.

It recognises businesses that have truly embraced the Planet Mark vision, demonstrating excellence across their entire sustainability journey.

For us, it represents years of dedication to transforming not just our own operations, but catalysing change throughout the entire floristry and events sector.

This achievement comes at a pivotal moment as we continue to prove that verified climate action and commercial excellence can, and must, grow together.

Our Sustainability Journey: Redefining What’s Possible

While we’re proud of our 18% reduction in Scope 1 & 2 emissions and our perfect 20/20 data quality score, what truly excites us is the holistic transformation this represents – and the ripple effects it’s creating across our industry.

Perhaps most remarkably, we achieved 22% business growth this year with 0% increase in emissions, demonstrating that scaling up doesn’t have to mean sacrificing environmental integrity.

Five Circular Waste Streams: Turning Waste Into Prosperity

We’ve pioneered 5 distinct waste-to-resource initiatives that transform what others discard into valuable materials and revenue streams:

1. Green waste composting with com:post: We’ve transformed 14.7 tonnes of floral waste into 13.9 tonnes of nutrient-dense compost for British farming, preventing approximately 5 tCO₂e in methane emissions while closing the loop between creativity and soil health.

2. Charitable confetti production with Confetti Club: Used blooms become biodegradable confetti, generating £22k in revenue sales while donating £2.2k to Cancer Research UK and delivering an estimated £6.3k in wider local economic value.

3. Candle recycling with Balfern & Grove: Event candles are collected and reprocessed, giving them new life rather than ending up in landfill.

4. Hard-to-recycle plastics with Recorra: Materials are transformed into construction boards through innovative partnerships.

5. Design-led upcycling with Weez & Merl: Even unrecyclable LDPE cling film finds purpose, upcycled into design-led vases and decorative items for our studio.

Crucially, we cover all collection costs, enabling SMEs and non-profits to access high-quality raw materials without the burden of transportation expenses.

This approach proves that sustainability can generate shared prosperity rather than merely redistributing costs.

Zero Waste to Landfill: A New Standard

Through these circular initiatives, we’ve achieved zero waste to landfill – a milestone that seemed impossible when we started this journey.

Every material that passes through our studio is either composted, recycled, upcycled, or transformed into resources for others.

Our studio operates on 100% renewable energy, and our full transition to electric vehicles now avoids roughly 7–8 tCO₂e per year compared to diesel equivalents.

Engaging the Entire Value Chain

Our sustainability strategy spans every touchpoint, creating a web of positive impact:

Internally, sustainability isn’t a campaign – it’s the foundation of daily operations.

Led by our Chief Operating Officer Michael Dariane, a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv ISEP), our sustainability strategy sets clear targets and embeds accountability across the team.

Every team member contributes to green waste processing, upcycling, and eco-conscious design.

New hires receive comprehensive sustainability training from day one, with ongoing workshops, quarterly impact reporting, and an annual paid volunteering day.

Sustainability responsibilities appear in every job description and review, creating a culture where environmental stewardship feels empowering rather than imposed.

Throughout our supply chain, we’ve travelled to the Netherlands to audit our suppliers and identify packaging and logistics improvements.

Our conscious purchasing decisions are creating positive change, with suppliers like Hans Visser implementing FSI reporting capabilities after working with us.

Supplier partnerships are now contingent on verified environmental performance, embedding sustainability upstream.

Across the industry, we’re active members of the Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI), collaborate with Brazil’s Conexão Floristas (co-authoring their sustainable floristry guide now used by professionals worldwide), and have delivered 20 hands-on masterclasses plus keynotes in the UK, Spain, and the USA.

Our speaking engagements at Madrid Blooms, Flowerstock Washington, and London’s Garden Museum, combined with collaborative research with the University of Surrey on circular floristry systems and sensory sciences, are helping establish evidence-based sustainable practices across the sector.

In our community, we’ve partnered with Ecologi, National Forest, and clients such as Raffles OWO London to integrate ecological restoration into event production.

We’ve contributed 9 hours of volunteering with SUGi this year, demonstrating how businesses can create tangible environmental and social benefits beyond their operations.

Transparent Communication That Drives Action

Across our blog and social media channels we’re transforming conventional sustainability messaging into compelling, accessible content that resonates across diverse audiences.

Planet Mark messaging is integrated into every communication – from packaging designs and event proposals to digital media, core website pages, and our dedicated sustainability page.

Our 2024 sustainability impact report prominently incorporates Planet Mark frameworks, while certification materials feature across our website.

But metrics only tell part of the story.

Our communication strategy has inspired tangible action:

• Florists and hospitality professionals actively reach out to schedule calls and learn from our journey
• Com:post expanded from local to nationwide service partly through our collaboration and awareness campaigns
• Industry peers have adopted similar composting services after witnessing our success
• London florists and event partners are now adopting our composting system and low-waste design principles

From a B2C perspective, sharing our journey has been educational, empowering audiences to confidently take action on sustainability challenges in their own lives – understanding seasonal floral choices, carbon-conscious sourcing, and eco-friendly alternatives.

Innovation Through Partnership

We’re constantly pushing boundaries through strategic collaborations:

• Testing biodegradable foam alternatives with Phoam Labs
• Developing custom steel structures that replace single-use foam entirely
• Repurposing waste cardboard from other organisations into our packaging materials
• Working with multiple circular economy partners to create scalable, replicable models
• These partnerships demonstrate how small businesses can leverage collaboration to drive systemic change across entire industries.

Proving Sustainability Enhances Luxury

A common misconception in the events and hospitality industry is that sustainability compromises luxury.

We’re proving the opposite is true at the highest levels.

Our Planet Mark and B Corp certifications underpin client trust, helping us secure luxury contracts such as Raffles Resorts.

We’re showing that ethical design and commercial excellence aren’t just compatible – they’re complementary, with sustainability enhancing the quality, thoughtfulness, and meaning behind every arrangement we create.

This approach creates market demand that compels competitors to elevate their practices, establishing conscious floristry as the emerging industry standard rather than a niche alternative.

Leading Industry Transformation

Our open-source approach to sharing emissions data, impact scores, and sustainability commitments (all publicly available via our website sustainability page, B Corp profile, Planet Mark dashboard, and social channels) is proving that rigorous sustainability frameworks are attainable for small businesses.

Through B Corp certification, we align with UN Sustainable Development Goals 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), 13 (Climate Action), and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).

Planet Mark connects us to the UN Race to Zero, driving verified annual emissions reductions.

We’re not just meeting standards – we’re setting them, demonstrating how verified climate action and open collaboration can redefine sustainability in the creative economy.

Looking Forward: Preparing the Industry for What’s Next

Winning the Planet Mark “Best Company” award isn’t a finish line – it’s validation that we’re on the right path and inspiration to push even further.

Our 2026+ strategy prepares both our business and the wider industry for tightening climate legislation and rising resource costs.

We’re investing in AI-powered reporting infrastructure for real-time impact tracking and transparent stakeholder reporting, and investigating science-based targets for 2026 onward.

As regulations tighten and unsustainable practices become economically unviable – threatening to make traditional floristry prohibitively expensive – we’re demonstrating scalable, regenerative models that prove sustainability isn’t just ethical; it’s essential for economic resilience.

We’re expanding our volunteering initiatives, growing our charitable impact, and continuing our work proving that small businesses can create exponential environmental impact through innovation, collaboration, and unwavering commitment to regenerative practices.

A Collective Force for Good

This award belongs not just to Blooming Haus, but to every partner, supplier, employee, and client who has joined us on this journey.

From our composting partners to our sustainability-conscious clients who choose to make their events a force for good – this is a shared achievement.

Our sustainability success stems from being an eco-conscious business built by eco-conscious employees, where sustainability champions chose to work here, creating genuine commitment that extends naturally into personal lives and operations.

Thank you to Planet Mark for this incredible recognition, and to everyone who believes that the future of floristry is sustainable, transparent, and beautiful.

Together, we’re proving that luxury can be regenerative by design.