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Shopify vs Spree

On overall TruNorth grade, Spree scores higher (Shopify: B, Spree: B). Both graded from public records across nine values categories.

B
Shopify
51.8/100
B
Spree
61.1/100

Political donations

Shopify

FEC: $102K in executive political donations; partisan lean split across 7 executive donors.

Spree

FEC: $272K in executive political donations; partisan lean split across 15 executive donors.

Environment

Shopify

CDP Climate Change: A- (2024) — leadership-band environmental disclosure with validated targets.

Spree

Via parent company Nestlé: Bonsucro member with majority-certified sugarcane volume. [Bonsucro member]

Labor

Shopify

No public record found.

Spree

No public record found.

DEI

Shopify

HRC Corporate Equality Index: 100/100 — Equality 100 Leader (2025). Top-rated LGBTQ+ workplace policies, benefits, and culture. HRC Corporate Equality Index 100/100 (2025) — top-tier LGBTQ+ workplace equality rating.

Spree

Via parent company Nestlé: Nestlé maintains active DEI programs including a Gender Balance Acceleration Plan, ILO Global Business Disability Network (GBDN) Charter signatory (signed 2024), Partnership with Global LGBTI Equality (PGLE) membership, UN Women's Empowerment Principles signatory, and a 2025 Global Equal Pay review reporting no countrywide pay gap across 84 countries. However, in March 2025 the company was targeted by a consumer boycott ('Nestlé Blackout,' March 21–28, 2025) organized by The People's Union USA, alleging Nestlé had scaled back DEI commitments—though no formal regulatory finding of DEI policy violation has been issued.

Charity

Shopify

$18M reported corporate giving in 2024 (~0.19% of revenue).

Spree

Via parent company Nestlé: $220M reported corporate giving in 2024 (~0.19% of revenue) via Nestle Healthcare Nutrition.

Animal testing

Shopify

No public record found.

Spree

Via parent company Nestlé: BBFAW 2024 Tier 3 — group-wide farm-animal welfare policy with audited annual progress. CIWF Good Chicken Award (Europe) + Good Egg Award (global). [BBFAW Tier 3 · CIWF Award]

Firearms

Shopify

No public record found.

Spree

No federal firearms license on record for this company in the ATF FFL registry — no licensed firearms dealing or manufacturing.

Privacy

Shopify

Terms-of-service privacy grade E (very poor) via ToS;DR (tosdr.org), CC BY-SA 3.0 — transformed to TruNorth's scale.

Spree

Via parent company Nestlé: Nestlé operates a mandatory Global Privacy Program aligned with GDPR Binding Corporate Rules (updated January 2025) and employs a worldwide Nestlé Privacy Network. However, the company experienced two publicly claimed data incidents: in March 2022, hacktivist group Anonymous claimed to have leaked 10 GB of Nestlé data (emails, passwords, client data), which Nestlé denied; and in April 2024, threat actor group R00TK1T claimed responsibility for infiltrating Nestlé's systems and leaking confidential internal data—Nestlé had not issued a formal public confirmation of the 2024 breach as of reporting. No regulatory fines against Nestlé specifically for privacy violations have been found in public records.

Executive pay

Shopify

No public record found.

Spree

No public record found.

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