PLANTAGON is a new and modern kind of company with maximum competitiveness, building on good corporate citizenship, transparency and democratic value.
PLANTAGON's basic principle is to combine and balance commercial and value based driving forces in one organization, exploring how to make money while doing good and using the power of money and public support to achieve benefits for society in general, over and above economic progress.
PLANTAGON comprises two legal entities; one company that for the time being a focus on the Plantagon® greenhouse that will dramatically change the way we produce ecological and functional food. It allows us to produce ecological with clean air and water inside urban environments, even major cities, cutting costs and environmental damage by eliminating transportation and deliver directly to consumers.
The second legal entity in PLANTAGON is a non-profit organization with the same name as the company.
The non-profit organization owns 10% of the company and nominates 50% of its board members.
Membership of the non-profit organization is open to everyone who supports its objectives,
and the company has no influence over it.
The company and the nonprofit organization are legally bound to support each other and commit to implementing the Global Compact and the Earth Charter in their Articles of Association and founding documents. It is not only financial but also social compliance with the Articles of Association that is reviewed at each Annual General Meeting.
It is called the PLANTAGON model a “Companization” – two different legal entities in one organization working for the same cause: One profit-driven, commercial organization (PLANTAGON International AB) and one nonprofit organization (PLANTAGON Non-profit Association)
