This is how the sporting goods industry deals with CSR & Sustainability – Page 41
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News briefsCallaway Golf Company publishes 2021 sustainability report
Callaway Golf Company, the owner of the Callaway, Odyssey, Ogio, Topgolf, Jack Wolfskin and TravisMathew brands, has published its sustainability report 2021 to summarize the group’s global sustainability program across all brands’ corporate offices, facilities and global operations. As part of its ambition to drive improvement throughout operations and supply ...
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News briefsCharity platform Sport4ukraine calls for donations and doubles them
On the newly formed charity platform Sport4ukraine, founded by Siegbert Müller, managing director of Outtra, donations to help people in need in the wake of the war in Ukraine are collected. The project is supported by the organizations BSI, VDS, SAZsport, Sport 2000, and companies Alpenstrand, Chillaz, Ortlieb, Bergfreunde, Devold, ...
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News briefsAustrian Post, Intersport and other retailers launch pilot project for reusable packaging
In a joint pilot project supervised by the University of Upper Austria and organized and managed with Austrian Post, five retail companies in Austria are using new types of reusable shipping packaging. Among the online retailers in the project is Intersport Austria. Four different types of packaging made of cardboard, ...
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News briefsPuma is looking for 500 testers for the next phase of the Re:Suede project
Puma is looking for 500 people in Germany to join brand ambassadors such as Cara Delevingne and Raphaël Varane to test the Re:Suede sneaker and become part of the company’s experiment to find out if it is possible to produce a biodegradable version of the classic Suede, one of the ...
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News briefsOrthoLite introduces fully compostable midsole foam
Insole specialist OrthoLite and Vietnam-based material solutions company Cirql have introduced a plant-based biopolymer foam that is EVA plastic-free, recyclable, compostable and comes with an end-of-life solution. The new OrthoLite Cirql sole offerings have their own website and claim to be the critical solution for true circularity within the footwear ...
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News briefsPangaia commits to reach net zero operations by 2040
Pangaia, a London-based materials science company, has released its official commitment to its carbon reduction goals and its progress in adopting an earth-positive business model. The announcement was shared together with a short film that illustrates Pangaia’s ethos of “high-tech naturalism.” Pangaia is positioned as a ”Nature-As-A-Solution” (NAAS) company, with ...
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News briefsFESI demands harmonized standards in EU due diligence
Regarding the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence initiative proposal presented by the European Commission on Feb. 23, 2022, the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) took the opportunity to call again for a fully harmonized approach of the due diligence topic at the EU level that is harmonized with ...
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News briefsPiping Hot partners with University of Technology Sydney on textile made from seaweed
Australian surf brand Piping Hot and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have announced a research partnership to develop a sustainable textile made from seaweed. Starting in February 2022, scientists at the UTS Climate Change Cluster will be building a prototype fiber. Piping Hot commissioned this research to UTS as ...
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Panteres Grogues get support from Barça, and Puma
Puma has signed a cooperation agreement with the Spanish LGTBIQ+ multisport association Panteres Grogues in Barcelona as part of #Reform, the brand’s global initiative to defend universal equality. On the occasion of the International Day to Combat LGTBI-Phobia in Sport, celebrated on February 19, FC Barcelona also signed a cooperation ...
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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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ArticleDecathlon Germany reports best year in history
Decathlon Germany has reported the most successful financial year in the company’s 35-year history. Since the first German store opened in Dortmund in 1986, the sporting goods manufacturer and retailer has expanded to 84 stores, two logistics centers and four campus locations for central services with a total of 4,833 ...
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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 ...
