How to win a CO Leadership Award: Webinar and slides

For full details on criteria and how to apply, visit the CO Awards pages.  

About the CO Awards

The CO Leadership awards are open to all businesses operating in the fashion industry - in any capacity, regardless of size or location. The awards celebrate commitment to great business practices that transform lives - and solve environmental challenges. Winners gain recognition and a higher search ranking on CO - increasing the profile of your business to fashion industry press, buyers, and influencers. 

CO reaches over 47k members, including representatives from leading brands and retailers such as Farfetch, Net-a-porter, Selfridges, ASOS, Kering, H&M, Nike and M&S, alongside thousands of SMEs.

To enter the awards, simply create or complete your business profile on CO by 31st October 2021. 

Click here to find out more about the CO Awards criteria.

PDS Innovation Award

This year we partner with PDS Multinational to support innovative solutions to supply chain challenges. As part of the CO Awards, we will reward 3 scalable and innovation-led businesses that have a game-changing impact on the fashion industry. The application process is the same as the CO Awards - simply create or complete a business profile on CO.  The winners will get the opportunity to pitch for investment from PDS Ventures and their partners. 

PDS Innovation Award criteria:

1.Innovation led business models

• Leveraging emerging technologies to create environment-friendly products or services
• A unique value proposition that has game-changing advantages over any alternatives
• Commercial viability and Economic desirability of the business

2. Scalability 

• Innovations that not only address a need and solve a problem but also seize an opportunity and create a new market or industry
• Targeting a large addressable market or the potential to add value through multiple use cases across industries
• The immediate and longer-term impact on the environment and society as a whole

Apply for the CO Leadership Awards to be shortlisted for the Innovation Award. 

PDS invests in pioneers: Visit the PDS Innovation hub on CO to browse the SME's they have already backed, along with PDS network members. 

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