Relan, who began in 1995 as a boutique lifestyle company that repurposed banners into fashionable products, has transformed into a world-class company whose mission is to empower individuals to make conscious purchasing decision for sustainable products. Organizations are learning that customers and employees want the organization’s they buy from and work at to be environmentally…
Relan
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Location
Mendota Heights, MN
Industry
Environmental Services
Legal Structure
For-Profit
Ownership Model
Private
Employees
1–10
Why we are in business
Our Purpose
Relan’s goal is to engage every organization across the country to upcycle their marketing waste into unique, usable products that will have a positive impact across the board and be a win-win for everyone. Using an often overlooked waste stream, they repurpose marketing materials (banners, billboards, overstock t-shirt, old team jerseys, and mesh) and turn them into products with purpose that tell a sustainability story.
Organizations have an opportunity to drive brand loyalty and engage stakeholders through their sustainability commitments. By creating new branded product incentives and replacing existing imported tradeshow bags, meeting gift incentives and trinkets, these products show an organization’s sustainability commitment, engage stakeholders and drive profits to the bottom line. At Relan they don’t just create products. They create a marketing opportunity that will reach the target market and increase the customer base.
How we operate
Our Practices
We strive to operate our business in a way that maximizes benefit to all life impacted, and to share our practices to inspire other companies to do the same.
Purpose-First
Clearly defining your mission and demonstrating your commitment to it through a theory of change that drives your strategy, impact measurements that track your progress, incentives that keep purpose a priority, and/or a legal structure that ensure social and environmental objectives are upheld.
Water & Waste
Minimizer
Thriving to achieve zero waste through recycling and reusing initiatives, composting and water conservation, and tracking progress towards set reduction targets.
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Turning Local Garbage Into Packaging Materials Turning Local Garbage Into Packaging Materials
We partner with a local food shelf to reuse the cardboard boxes from their food shipments for shipping our products. We partner with a local business to reuse their bubble wrap in our packaging. The bubble wrap was being discarded into the dumpster. Not a bad way to recycle and reduce shipping costs!
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Eco-Minded
Materials
Earth-friendly materials used to operate the company (i.e. recycled paper) to construct and furnish offices and facilities (i.e. bamboo flooring), and to produce products and their packaging (i.e. biodegradable materials).
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Recycling vs. Upcycling Recycling vs. Upcycling
Recycling takes consumer materials — mostly plastic, paper, metal and glass — and breaks them down so their base materials can be remade into a new consumer product, often of lesser quality. When you upcycle an item, you aren’t breaking down the materials. You may be refashioning it — like cutting a t-shirt into strips…
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Caring Through
Sharing
Caring for mission-aligned causes by generously sharing business resources such as your products and services, meeting space, excess materials, media exposure, company best practices, and employee time and talent.
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Creative Custom Gifts for Our Partners Creative Custom Gifts for Our Partners
We love to show our partners, distributors, and suppliers how much we appreciate them. When appropriate we create a product to say thank you — or send a card or gift certificate to let them know we appreciate what they do. One of our printers has close ties to the Girl Scouts, so we created…
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What we impact
Our Performance
WBENC Certified Woman-Owned Business
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The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) is dedicated to advancing the success of Corporate Members, certified women’s business enterprises (WBEs), and government entities in partnership with its Regional Partner Organizations (RPOs).
Verizon Sustainability Award
Read MoreVerizon Sustainability Award
The Verizon Supplier Recognition Awards recognize companies that support Verizon’s commitment to continuous improvement of quality and service through a passion for excellence. Each year, Verizon recognizes its top two green suppliers at a special Earth Day celebration.
Jobs
What we look for when hiring
We look for someone who is passionate, health conscious, and environmentally conscious. Someone who is willing to work hard and play hard!
Where to find us
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Relan as a for-benefit business