Clif Bar & Company

At Clif Bar & Company, we take our food —and our planet—seriously. That’s why our one-of-a-kind bakery in Twin Falls, Idaho was the first manufacturing facility in America to incorporate a biophilic design from the onset. The result is a warm, welcoming bakery that reflects not only the latest in technological advances, but also the values of the employee-owners who make this such a special place to work.

Clif Bar is a family and employee-owned company that believes happy, healthy people create the best food. Our culture, pay, benefits, holistic wellness programs, and dedication to employees’ career growth, create a unique and meaningful workplace, where we take ourselves lightly and our work seriously.

To us, the journey has always been more important than the destination. HOW we get things done is as important as WHAT gets done. So a bunch of us got together and created a list of Ingredients to inspire the best HOW we know how. Here they are:

CREATE: Extraordinary products, experiences, solutions, and ideas
INSPIRE: Greater success across all aspirations
CONNECT: Through positive and respectful interaction
OWN IT! Take responsibility for your actions, behaviors and contributions
BE YOURSELF: Bring your best self to work each day

Our bakeries in Idaho and Indiana, like all of Clif Bar, operate on an alternative business model based on five bottom lines: Sustaining Our People, Planet, Community, Business, and Brands. It’s all part of our ongoing commitment to making it good, from field to final product.

What do bakeries based on five bottom lines look like? They’re people-friendly environments in state-of-the-art facilities that make top-quality bars! Our bakeries have onsite learning centers that offer ongoing educational programs, from sustainability to ESL to best practices for baking. Hundreds of our employees commute in fuel-efficient hybrid and electric cars purchased through Clif Bar’s Cool Commute sustainability program. And, because Clif Bar is family and employee owned, all employees* will have an ownership stake in our company through Clif’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

Most companies have one bottom line. At Clif Bar & Company, we are a private, family and employee-owned company guided by five “bottom lines” or what we call our Five Aspirations: Sustaining our People, Community, Planet, Brands, and Business. These aspirations help us consider decisions from multiple perspectives that we value, and we choose the word “aspiration” in recognition that we’re on a journey and can always do more in each of these areas.

Sustaining our People: Working side-by-side, encouraging each other, our Company is our people.

Sustaining our Communities: Promoting healthy, sustainable communities, locally and globally.

Sustaining the Planet: Conserving and restoring our natural resources; growing a business that operates in harmony with the laws of nature.

Sustaining our Brands: Creating brands with integrity, quality and authenticity.

Sustaining our Business: Building a resilient company, investing for the long-term.

Like the spokes of a wheel, the Five Aspirations keep our company in balance as we move forward.

This is the surprising true-life story of the birth of CLIF® Bar, a company driven by good. Learn even more about how our family- and employee-owned company has been sustaining people, communities, and our home planet since 1992.

Learn more at www.clifbar.com

At CLIF Bar, we do things a bit differently. And that’s not something new for us. Our founder, Gary Erickson, has always made business decisions based on his core values rather than merely financial gain. We don't just have one bottom line, but five, also known as our five aspirations. Through this work, we’ll share a deeper narrative about how business decisions are made differently (and we think better) here at CLIF.

At CLIF Bar one of our most unique offerings is our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP.) The ESOP is a generous retirement benefit, created by our owners, that is directly impacted by our work together and linked to the success of our company. Through a short video we'll tell a touching story of several CLIF employees who have been positively affected by this rare benefit.

A team of foodies, parents, adventurers and everything in between.

Clif Bar is a family and employee-owned company that believes happy, healthy people create the best food. Our culture, pay, benefits, holistic wellness programs and dedication to employees' career growth, create a unique and meaningful workplace, where we take ourselves lightly and our work seriously.

In search of a more sustainable future, CLIF Bar implemented a set of organizational aspirations to a level rarely seen by corporations.

These Five Aspirations: Sustaining our Business, Brands, People, Community and the Planet. By utilizing insights from its MES system in-partnership with AVEVA, CLIF Bar has been able to sustain and monitor the quality of its manufacturing processes. This has led to maintaining and enhancing CLIF Bar’s business and brand perception – its first two aspirations.

June 17, 2020 – Clif Bar & Company announced today that CLIF®, CLIF Kid®, and LUNA® Bar donations now total 14 million bars in an additional wave of donations to help feed families most affected by food scarcity exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Company is doubling its previous seven million bar donation that went to frontline health care workers and first responders and is distributing another seven million bars to food banks and community organizations that reach U.S. counties most in need as we enter summer.