Fast Company Names TO THE MARKET’s ‘Ethical Supply Chain Software’ a 2023 Innovation by Design Honoree

Celebrating more than a decade of Innovation by Design, the 2023 honorees include nearly 500 projects, products, and services from Adobe, PepsiCo, Canva, and others.

Key Takeaways

TO THE MARKET was honored in Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards for 2023 in the Retail category.
The competition features a range of blue-chip companies, emerging startups, and hungry young talents. It is one of the most sought-after design awards in the industry.
TO THE MARKET (B-Corp, Women-Owned) is a software platform enabling responsible vendor compliance and management, digital procurement, and automated impact reporting.

[LEXINGTON, KY], August 22, 2023 - TO THE MARKET was honored in Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards for 2023 in the Retail category.

The Innovation by Design Awards, which can be found in the September 2023 issue of Fast Company, honor the designers and businesses solving the most crucial problems of today and anticipating the pressing issues of tomorrow. The competition, now in its 12th year, features a range of blue-chip companies, emerging startups, and hungry young talents. It is one of the most sought-after design awards in the industry.

“TO THE MARKET has been reimagining ethical sourcing and manufacturing technology for years. As we further externalize features on our platform, I am thrilled to see the market respond with such enthusiasm,” said Jane Mosbacher Morris, Founder and CEO of TO THE MARKET.

“So much innovation news these days is focused on AI,” said Brendan Vaughan, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. “This year’s Innovation by Design honorees are a reminder that it’s human ingenuity that drives invention.”

The judges include renowned designers from a variety of disciplines, business leaders from some of the most innovative companies in the world, and Fast Company’s own writers and editors. Entries are judged on the key ingredients of innovation: functionality, originality, beauty, sustainability, user insight, cultural impact, and business impact.

Winners, finalists, and honorable mentions are featured online, and winners and finalists are featured in the issue of Fast Company magazine, on newsstands August 29, 2023.

To see the complete list, go to https://www.fastcompany.com/innovation-by-design/list.

About Fast Company

Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with our sister publication Inc., and can be found online at www.fastcompany.com.

TO THE MARKET (B Corp, Women-Owned) is a software platform enabling responsible vendor compliance and management, digital procurement, and automated impact reporting. The company provides clients with metrics such as fair wages created, as well asKWh of Energy, L of Water, and kgCO2 avoided allowing clients to utilize procurement budgets for ESG initiatives. Additionally, TO THE MARKET provides clients with the ability to offset their carbon emissions, decarbonizing their production by producing less emissions and offsetting those that are produced. The company has also developed proprietary systems and technology to evaluate (T.R.A.C.E) and monitor (Vendor Scorecard) suppliers via their platform. This enables the company to provide a turn key solution, from sourcing to production to quantification of impact.

Key Takeaways

TO THE MARKET was honored in Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards for 2023 in the Retail category.
The competition features a range of blue-chip companies, emerging startups, and hungry young talents. It is one of the most sought-after design awards in the industry.
TO THE MARKET (B-Corp, Women-Owned) is a software platform enabling responsible vendor compliance and management, digital procurement, and automated impact reporting.

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Jane Mosbacher Morris

Founder and CEO

Jane Mosbacher Morris is the Founder and CEO of TO THE MARKET. She is also the author of Buy the Change You Want to See: Use Your Purchasing Power to Make the World a Better Place. The book has been featured on platforms like CNN, Bloomberg, Forbes, and Marie Claire. Buy the Change was a Target Non-Fiction Best-Seller, a #1 Consumer Guide on Amazon, and a #1 New Business Ethics Release on Amazon. A new bonus chapter of the book is forthcoming, and will cover conscious consumerism in the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2020, Jane was named one of Fortune Magazine’s 25 World’s Greatest Leaders because of her response to COVID-19. Her swift efforts to pivot TO THE MARKET to PPE production put more than a million masks, gowns, and other PPE into the hands of frontline healthcare workers in the US.

Jane previously served as the Director of Humanitarian Action for the McCain Institute for International Leadership and currently serves on the Institute’s Human Trafficking Advisory Council. Prior to joining the Institute, she worked in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism and in the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues. Morris is a member of VF Corporation’s Advisory Council on Responsible Sourcing, a member at large on CARE’s Board of Directors, and a term member at the Council of Foreign Relations. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a MBA from Columbia Business School.

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