You can prepare for your online application by reviewing the key questions asked in each category below. If you have any questions or require further help please contact awards@positiveluxury.com
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
1. Identify and describe the technological innovation within your environmental initiative/project you have adopted within your business
2. Identify the problem your innovation has overcome.
3. What is the quantifiable impact of this innovation on your stakeholders/or at an industry level through the lens of people and planet.
4. Please outline whether and how you communicated your sustainability efforts over the past 12 months to your key stakeholders? To what extent do you publicly disclose mid-targets and related environmental performance metrics? Please provide links to and upload examples
5. In the next five years, what further actions have you identified and what is the projected quantitative positive impact of your environmental initiative/project?
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SOCIAL INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
1. Describe your social strategy and innovation within this pillar of sustainability, including details of how this aligns within your overall business and sustainability strategy?
2. How has this innovation strategy delivered a quantifiable positive social impact?
3. Please outline whether and how you communicated your innovative social strategy over the past 12 months to your key stakeholders groups? To what extent do you publicly disclose mid-term targets and related performance metrics? Please provide links to and upload examples
4. What are your planned actions and future targets for social innovation in the next five years?
5. How has strong leadership influenced the evolution of the business’ social strategy and driven positive impact?
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MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURING INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
1. Describe your business and the material or manufacturing innovation you have created, outlining your commitment to sustainability and the industry challenge/s you are trying to overcome
2. Describe why you believe the initiative is innovative, the history behind its conception and development, and innovation’s specific contribution to sustainability: environmental, social and/or governance
3. How has the company and the innovation contributed to the luxury industry’s sustainability challenge to date? I.e., reduced wastewater, emission, circular business model, biodiversity protection etc.
4. What quantifiable direct impact has the innovation had on the luxury sector and/or luxury consumers?
5. Please outline whether and how you communicated the sustainability impact of this innovation over the past 12 months to your key stakeholder groups? To what extent do you publicly disclose ESG performance and mid-term targets? Please provide links to and upload examples
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PRODUCT INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
1. Describe your product, explain why you consider it innovative, the reasons behind its design and outline the product’s specific sustainability credentials
2. What quantifiable direct impact has your product had on the Luxury sector and/or luxury consumers?
3. How has your product inspired others to be better or do better?
4. Please outline how you communicated the product’s sustainability credentials to its target consumer. What claims did you make about the product’s impact? Please provide links to and upload examples
5. What will be the long-term impact of your product on the Luxury sector? Please upload supporting evidence
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BREAKTHROUGH BUSINESS OF THE YEAR
1. Describe your business, its commitment to sustainability and what industry challenge you are trying to overcome.
2. How has your company contributed to the luxury industry’s sustainability challenge to date? i.e. reduced wastewater, emissions, material or manufacturing innovation etc. Please upload supporting evidenceof actions and impact.
3. What quantitative targets do you have in place for the next 12 months to continue your sustainability journey?
4. Describe the impact of your product, service, operations or business model innovations beyond base-level holistic sustainability compliance
5. Please describe the company’s approach to public disclosure of your company’s ESG-led actions, impact and targets. Please provide links to and examples of sustainability communications to your stakeholders.
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RESPONSIBLE LUXURY BUSINESS OF THE YEAR
1. Please describe how you have embedded sustainability into your business model, highlighting the specific innovations or changes you have adopted within your business in the last 12 months.
2. Describe how your business’s sustainability efforts have had a positive impact on society, nature and your commercial performance (directly or indirectly).
3. What has been your measurable impact?
4. Please outline whether and how you communicated your sustainability efforts over the past 12 months to your key stakeholders? To what extent do you publicly disclose ESG performance metrics and mid-term targets? Please provide links to and upload examples
5. In the next five years, what are the sustainable actions you are committed to taking and the projected quantitative positive impact of those actions on your business, the environment and society?
6. How did you embed creativity and generate inspiration when integrating sustainability into your business model?
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