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Puma partners with Women Win to empower girls through sports
Puma has signed a long-term agreement with Women Win, an organization that uses sports to empower girls and women around the world. With the projects that will be supported directly by the German sports brand, Women Win will reach 5,000 girls and women, said Puma. In addition, as a core ...
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News briefsNew Zealand Merino launches 100% regenerative wool platform with Icebreaker, Allbirds and Smartwool
The New Zealand Merino Company (NZM) will work with Icebreaker, Smartwool and Allbirds and 167 sheep growers in New Zealand to create ZQRX, the world’s first regenerative wool platform. “ZQRX is an important and necessary evolution of our ethical wool program, ZQ,” said John Brakenridge, NZM’s CEO. “Through the adoption ...
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News briefsVF Corp. allocates the proceeds from its Green Bond
VF Corp. has released its Green Bond Impact Report, in which it shows that the net proceeds of around €493 million from its inaugural Green Bond have been fully allocated to 13 of VF’s eligible sustainability projects worldwide, including 2 million trees planted, around 16,000 metric tons of CO² emissions ...
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Schöffel Foundation plants 30,000 trees
Peter Schöffel, CEO Schöffel The reduction of the VAT in Germany in the second half of 2020 was intended to support the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic. But it also made possible a sustainability project by the Schöffel Foundation, which was established in 2011 to promote and ...
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News briefsSympatex’ membranes will be over 25% bio-based
Sympatex announced at ISPO Munich Online that ,as early as this year, more than 25 percent of the raw materials required for its membranes will be switched to bio-based sources derived from various organic waste streams, based on mass balancing. At the same time, the ingredient brand says it aims ...
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Asics recognized for actions on supply chain to mitigate climate change
For the second year in a row, Asics Corp. has been awarded a high position on the Supplier Engagement Leaderboard by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for its relations with suppliers on climate change. CDP is a not-for-profit environmental charity that runs the global disclosure system adopted for the management ...
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FESI webinar about sustainability governance on March 3
FESI is inviting anyone in the sporting goods industry to register for a webinar on “How to ensure a fair and effective EU framework on due diligence,” as related to the European Green Deal. It will take place on March 3 from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm CET. The European ...
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News briefsTecnica launches a ski boot recycling project
Tecnica has introduced Recycle Your Boots, a project that aims to promote the circular economy by transforming old, used boots into second-generation materials. A ski boot is made of up to 120 components, which typically end up in the landfill, the company explains. Any skier who plans to buy a ...
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News briefsVF launches “Sustainable Solutions” digital media series
VF Corp. Is partnering with Pattrn, a sister brand of IBM’s Weather Channel, to launch a new digital media series that highlights its solutions to address climate change. The five-part series showcases the work happening across VF and its family of brands, including Vans, The North Face and Icebreaker, and ...
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Decathlon participates in EU “green consumption” project
Decathlon is participating in the EU’s Green Consumption Pledge Initiative, a voluntary cooperation with businesses to complement regulatory actions aimed at increasing sustainability in production and consumption. It is the first initiative to be launched in the framework of EU’s New Consumer Agenda, announced in November 2020, which intends to ...
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News briefsZalando joins the Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Zalando has joined a circular economy network by becoming a member of the U.K.-based Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The German online retailer said that the collaboration is in line with its commitment to apply the principles of circularity and extend the life of at least 50 million fashion products by 2023. ...
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Head launches a collection of tennis bags made from recycled bottles
Head has worked with Alexander “Sascha” Zverev, the German tennis player and brand ambassador who is also an environmentally conscious athlete, on the development of Head’s first tennis bags made from recycled PET bottles. The collaborative collection comprises the Gravity R-Pet Duffle Bag and Gravity R-Pet Sport Bag. While 47 ...
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Adidas among top 100 most sustainable firms, although down in the ranking
Adidas has been named among the most sustainable companies in the world in the global Corporate Knights 2021 ranking, an annually updated index of the Global 100 most sustainable corporations in the world. Adidas took the 76th spot with an overall score of 59.6 percent, down from the 55th spot ...
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Endura has planted 1.3 million trees in a year to offset emissions
Endura, a Scottish cycling apparel brand founded in 1993 and part of Pentland Brands since 2018, says it has now planted more than 1.3 million trees in Maputo Bay, Mozambique. That is 30 percent more than the original goal of the “One Million Trees” initiative announced in early 2020. With ...
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Pentland names a “positive business director”
Creating a new position, Pentland Brands has appointed Sara Brennan as its “positive business director.” The group said her task will be to “accelerate its positive business strategy to deliver on its commitment to take action for people and our planet” across its portfolio of brands, which includes big names ...
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VF releases "product traceability maps"
VF Corp. has made single files available for download to trace the supply chain for certain products through the last four of its five tiers. Each file goes from the finished product assembly stage (tier one) back through material production, raw material processing and raw material conversion (tier four), with ...
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Nike invests in crowdfunding platform for minorities
Nike is investing $500,000 in Black Girl Ventures, a crowdfunding platform headquartered in Washington, D.C. that describes itself as funding and scaling “tech-enabled, revenue-generating businesses (under $1M) founded by people who identify as Black/Brown and women.” According to its founder and chief executive, Shelly Bell, Black Girl Ventures will be ...
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Jeff Bezos and Phil Knight made the largest donations in the U.S. in 2020
According to the annual list of top donations in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Jeff Bezos made the single-largest charitable donation in 2020. The $10 billion gift by the Amazon founder and CEO, which was announced in February, contributed to launch the Bezos Earth Fund, an initiative that is designed to ...
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Hestra donates gloves to refugees, starts fund-raiser with UNHCR
Hestra, the Swedish brand of sports gloves founded in 1936, has donated 10,000 children’s gloves to refugee children in winter camps around the world through the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). UNHCR is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees who ...
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TÜV Süd introduces vegan product certification
TÜV Süd, the globally active auditing and testing company headquartered in southern Germany, has introduced vegan product certification to ensure that apparel, footwear and textiles are neither made of nor finished with animal-derived materials – such as leather, fur, fibers (wool, silk), glue, dyes and chemical substances (beeswax, carmine dye ...
