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News briefsAllbirds launches trade-in program
With a trade-in program that is offered in several Allbirds stores in the U.S., the shoe company takes its first steps into the pre-owned market. Within the newly launched ReRun program, customers can trade in their used Allbirds footwear for an in-store discount of $20. Used shoes will be offered ...
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Vans launches the eco-friendly Circle Vee
Vans has introduced the Circle Vee, a new silhouette that taps into renewable materials while aiming at reducing waste. The Circle Vee features a one-piece knitted natural upper designed to reduce waste in production compared to Vans’ traditional cut and sew uppers. The upper, which is stitched directly onto the ...
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News briefsSportsShoes.com wants to become world’s most sustainable running retailer
Part of SportsShoes.com’s “Leave No Footprints” environmental and sustainability strategy was the plan to become carbon neutral, which the U.K. online retailer achieved last April. Now the company aims to become the world’s most sustainable retailer of running gear. To achieve this ambitious goal, it has commissioned British Midlands-based sustainable ...
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News briefsHugo Boss invests in HeiQ Aeonic, Lycra opts for exclusive distribution rights
The German luxury fashion brand Hugo Boss AG has invested $5 million in HeiQ AeoniQ LLC (a wholly-owned subsidiary of London-listed HeiQ Plc) and an additional $4 million based on performance milestone agreements. Boss is the first company to acquire shares in the new continuous cellulosic yarn that is being ...
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News briefsKlarna and Good On You make sustainable products suggestions
Klarna, the Swedish retail banking, payment and shopping service, in collaboration with Good On You, has unveiled its first set of sustainable collections in the Klarna app that can be shopped on an ongoing basis. Good On You is a platform for rating the sustainability of fashion brands. Using more ...
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News briefsDalbello launches ski boots made from recycled plastics
Green Gaia Dalbello, part of the MDV group of companies (with Marker and Völkl), is launching the Green Menace and Green Gaia for the 2022/23 winter season, two new ranges of eco-friendly ski boots built from recycled plastics as part of the brand’s Reboot project. The material ...
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News briefsLululemon launches “mushroom bags”
Canadian athletic apparel and accessories brand Lululemon is launching two bags made from Mylo, a material made from renewable mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms, and created by a team of scientists and materials experts at Bolt Threads. Lululemon first revealed its plans to make mushrooms last July, as part ...
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News briefsCollapsed textile factory: Rana Plaza trial continues
For five years, the trial surrounding the collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh was suspended, but now it is to resume on Feb. 16. The eight-story Rana Plaza factory building collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing more than 1,100 people. It housed several textile and other companies, and clothes were ...
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News briefsElement Skateboards will be donating 1% of its global hardgood sales
Element Skateboards has announced it will donate one percent of all global hardgoods sales to 1% for the Planet. In a press release, the brand said, “At Element, we are not climate scientists. We are skateboarders, adventurers, creatives; a community of passionate people who care. We care about our planet, ...
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News briefsDecathlon Germany tests CO2-friendly same-day delivery
The sporting goods retailer and manufacturer Decathlon is testing the expansion of sustainable services in Germany. In Munich, a pilot project has been set up in collaboration with Glocally, a logistics company founded in 2021 by three students at the Technical University of Munich. The company focuses on a sustainable ...
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UA seeks to help youths engage in sport
Under Armour is making a “new, long-term commitment” to help more youths take part in sport. The company will be focusing on three areas: Pathways: Increasing opportunities for young people to engage in organized, structured, and competitive sports programming. People: Bringing together coaches, organizations, and community stakeholders to help ...
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Vulcabras gets top ratings for sustainability
Vulcabras has been certified by three Brazilian industry bodies, as a most sustainable shoe manufacturer in the country. The Brazilian parent of Olympikus, which manufactures 25 million pairs of shoes a year at its own factories in the country, It is the first one in the sector to be using ...
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FESI launches a sustainability network for winter sports companies
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) has launched a joint initiative, called the FESI Winter Sport Sustainability Network (FESI-WSN), to “increase the knowledge and cooperation on sustainability and circularity within the winter sports Industry.” The network will be holding four annual meetings, with roundtable discussions involving industry ...
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News briefsGore fabrics get Global Recycled Standard certification
The Gore fabrics division, part of W.L. Gore & Associates, has achieved full compliance with the Global Recycled Standard (GRS) certification for its production sites in Germany and China. GRS is an international, voluntary product standard (issued by the nonprofit organization Textile Exchange) that sets requirements for the certification of ...
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News briefsIcebug partners with POW
Icebug is the latest global partner of Protect Our Winters (POW). The Swedish shoe producer, known for its spiked after-ski boots, has a long-standing commitment to sustainability, whether it’s switching from petrochemical to algae foam, changing fabric dyeing processes, eliminating air freight or installing solar power in the factories that ...
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News briefsHummel raises funds for the LGBTI community
“We unite in our differences. We unite in sport,” says Hummel, announcing that it has raised £12,472 (€14,960-$16,890) for the Everton football club in the U.K. through the sale of a limited edition of Everton rainbow warm-up shirts. The amount will go to the club’s Community Youth Engagement Program, specifically ...
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A new sustainable collab between Adidas and Prada
Adidas has unveiled a new partnership with Prada with a sustainable twist. The new Adidas for Prada Re-Nylon collection consists of a wide range of Adidas Originals products made in Italy with the permanently recyclable Re-Nylon fabric introduced by Prada in 2019, which is made by recycling textile waste and ...
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Puma incentivizes suppliers for sustainability via liability insurance
Puma has set up new incentives for suppliers to abide by its Sustainability Handbooks and Code of Conduct. The German sportswear company, which has been auditing the social and environmental footprint of its manufacturing partners for many years, claims to have been the first to offer them better financing terms ...
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Anta’s family shareholders transfer shares to a foundation
The Ding family, which controls the Anta Sports group, had transferred 84.5 million shares in the company, representing about 3.16 percent of the equity, to a new charity, the Hemin Foundation. Based on the group’s recent stock price, the endowment is worth around $1.2 billion. The foundation intends to “collaborate ...
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Alibaba pledges to reduce emissions
Alibaba Group has pledged to make its in-house operations carbon-neutral (Scope 1 and Scope 21 emissions) and to cut its carbon-intensity emissions (Scope 32) by 2030. It has also pledged to cut 1.5 gigatons in carbon emissions from its “business ecosystem” (Scope 3+) by 2035. To accomplish this, the Chinese-based ...
