COS Life June issue

COS Life JUNE 2020- EU COS JOKER AWARDS 2020 THE HEAT IS ON! TURKEY OFFICE IS NEW NORMAL IS THE NEW BLACK.. BACK! EUROPE IS READY FOR SUMMER

EDITOR'S NOTE Hello Everyone, Petek Akdogan   COS Life Editor [email protected]   I am so impressed by the great job done by all and how everyone solves and develops during challenging times! This situation puts high demands on all of us, to find new ways of working in our specific expertise areas, to learn, adapt and develop according to the situation. It is hard, a lot of work and energy is put into this by all of us every day. During Covid 19 period; We could see how much more we can collaborate with Buying team colleagues, and our colleagues in  other Production office’s, we could see where are the possibilities to do new things in new ways, how fast everyone adapted into this new situation and make things work in an amazing way, we could see how much we can digitalize in  everything we do, such as new supplier quality audit done through video, counter sample approvals done through digital platforms, bulk fabric approvals done through photos, videos, and so many more daily things has changed it’s way of doing.   I believe all COS team members have been super Heroes and did fantastic job and still showing the potential to be even more fantastic!!!   Well done everyone, super proud!!

NEW LEATHER SUPPLIER Digital Onboarding! We need a new leather supplier and COVID can not stop us! OLD NORMAL-We NEW NORMAL- We visit new supplier to arranged a digital audit together with make quality and quality ;CAM and sustainability audit sustainability team to physically. assess new potential supplier LIDER DERI Supplier filled each and every step of quality audit . They started from outside building , warehouse,cutting ,production,marketing . shipment so it is VIRTUAL visit for us . Supplier was super TRANSPARENT while sustainability audit. Onboarding is still under process but sustainability and quality teams have already approved supplier. Fulya Aktolgalilar-PQM Categories Eser Apaydin-QC Moonshot doing Emir Gencsoy-CAM Responsible The tech-leader Goker Kahraman-Sustainability Manager Basak Mustu-Sustainability Developer

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: SHOULD YOU CHOOSE/DECIDE TO ACCEPT IT It's kind of fun to do the impossible.\"  Walt Disney by COS jersey TRIS Team It was an ordinary autumn Friday- seemed nothing special and we were all looking forward to the weekend. While we were having our daily Turkish coffee routine my phone rang. Somehow I felt something bad was on the way. And unfortunately I was not wrong Cotton Dress with Pleated Pannel: 69Eu It was one of fabric mill’s owner calling – where we have placed the biggest program of casual jersey dept. The order was around 40 tonnes and covering 5 styles. We had carefully planned timing and each details – not to get late with TOD and everything was settled. However as they said- life has always it’s own plans. The owner said one of the knitting machines is out of order Dress with contrast hem: 59 Eu and due to decreased capacity he would not deliver half of the fabric order on time. We were extremely shocked , After discussing internally and devastated and left full of grief- but just for a while. By creating a few solutions we decided knowing our team has a magic we relaxed- as our team is to take the initiative and using specialized on solving biggest problems in a very creative another mill- where they have way. We have saved the day several times in the past- why exactly the same knitting machine. wouldn’t we do it this time as well? Why not? We immediately started an email loop with the other mill for collaboration and settled a meeting for the soonest date. We negotiated the price & dates on the desk face to face and everything was ready in a very short time. Draped Pannel Cotton Dress: 59 Eu When we look at the figures today- 100.000 pcs have been shipped and one of them even became best seller. As Walt Disney said- it was fun to do the impossible Pleated cotton top: 49 Eu Category: Moonshot doing

18 ATTIC   |   JANUARY 2016 ONE PATTERN TWO STYLES BY TRIS JERSEY TEAM- COS Sustainability is a core element in our business and Now the offer is under process and we are very excited to integrating it in everything we do requires a broader have marketing team's final decision. view of the context. Sustainability is not just using We have shown a great initiative by offering & chasing sustainable materials but also using our sources in the this idea. With the full commitment to our sustainability most efficient ways. goal- we have pushed the boundaries beyond our main For production office, one of the main sources is fabric responsibility area to avoid the excess fabric going to   waste. We had a fully sustainable style (organic cotton/tencel) from COS Men dept / T-shirt, and cutting efficiency was Category:Moonshot doing really low. Which means we would have too much fabric cutting wastage at the end from this style and these fabrics probably would be sent to re-cycling company for unknown end material Instead we offered to London Mens & Kids buyers to produce kids t-shirt for these remaining fabric from the Mens style. Everyone loved the idea and we produce 2 styles from same bulk fabric. When we tell this story to head of COS Production Manda offered to present this to COS marketing team Category: Moonshot doing