New recognition for Glenrothes coffee roaster business
A Fife based coffee roaster business has gained new recognition.
Modern Standard has become a certified B Corp - a global community of businesses meeting high standards of social and environmental performance
The Glenrothes business, which came to town in 2019, roasts coffee for Balgove Larder, Fisher & Donaldson, and Ardross Farm Shop,as well as cafés and workplaces across the UK.
Modern Standard became a certified B Corp this summer. Its highest-scoring area in the assessment was its workers who earn at least the Living Wage,are trained as baristas, offered SCA coffee education and are given their birthday off.
The roaster also pays coffee growers, on average, 40% above the Fairtrade minimum price. It is also a member of 1% for the Planet, is Climate Label certified and is recognised by Buy Women Built as a female-founded business.
The business was founded by Lynsey Harley who grew up in Finglassie and went to Auchmuty High School. She is a Q Grader, a UK Cup Tasting Champion and a World Barista Championship judge.
She said: “Bringing our roastery home to Glenrothes was one of the best decisions we've made, and becoming a B Corp is a proud moment for the whole team. It's recognition of the way we already try to work: paying our growers fairly, looking after our people and taking care of the place we live.”
Around the roastery, at 38 Cavendish Way, the team keeps bee hives and a wildflower meadow, grows vegetables in raised beds, plants trees with the John Muir Trust and joins regular beach cleans at Elie.