Collingwood retains Gold EcoVadis rating for third consecutive year

Collingwood's EcoVadis Gold rating has been retained for another assessment cycle, keeping the business in the top 5% of companies evaluated worldwide. Retention matters more than a first award: it shows sustainability performance held to a standard, not reached once.

The company has served the UK and Republic of Ireland market throughout, specialising in landscape, functional and emergency lighting. Its defining moment came in 2002, when Collingwood became the first company to supply a purpose-built LED range to the UK electrical wholesale trade — an early bet on a technology that now defines the whole sector. The full company story sits on the About Collingwood page.

Today Collingwood is the founding brand of Inovara Group, and its Gold rating is the Group's strongest independent sustainability credential. It belongs to Collingwood — but it evidences the standard the wider platform is built to.

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The rating is not a marketing badge. EcoVadis draws on documented policies, actions and results — supplier standards, energy and emissions data, ethics governance — and scores against a global peer set. Retaining Gold means clearing that bar twice.

What Gold measures

An EcoVadis Gold rating is not a statement of intent. It rests on four independently assessed themes — the areas an evaluator scrutinises first.

The foundations that endure

• A single, focused market — the UK and Republic of Ireland, served continuously and known intimately.
• Three specialisms, deeply held — landscape, functional and emergency lighting, rather than a scattered catalogue.
• An early-mover instinct — first to bring a purpose-built LED range to UK wholesale, in 2002.
• A supply chain held to the same standard the business sets for itself.

“We were building lighting for the British trade long before LED existed. What's kept us here is a habit of moving early — and 2002 was the clearest example of it.”

Managing Director, Collingwood Lighting

Heritage as a credential

For a business being evaluated on its future, a 125-year record is more than a milestone — it is evidence of durability, of the ability to move ahead of a market and stay there. Collingwood's history is the clearest demonstration of the qualities the wider Group is built on.