This is how the sporting goods industry deals with CSR & Sustainability – Page 77
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Puma and H&M have teamed up with Worn Again, a...
Puma and H&M have teamed up with Worn Again, a U.K.-based recycling start-up, to test an innovative textile recycling technology, which Worn Again claims is the first of its kind. One of the issues in textile recycling is how to separate blended fiber garments and how to separate dyes and ...
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Greenpeace has labeled Nike and Li Ning as “greenwashers” for...
Greenpeace has labeled Nike and Li Ning as “greenwashers” for not fully keeping their promises regarding the ecological sustainability of their supply chains. Greenpeace's Detox campaign, launched in 2011, calls on companies to commit to an individual “Detox solution” to eliminate the use and release of all hazardous chemicals from ...
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Patagonia wants to give its contribution to the completion of...
Patagonia wants to give its contribution to the completion of the Patagonia National Park, located in the Patagonian region, shared by Argentina and Chile. The outdoor brand has presented Mile for Mile, a 15-minute film celebrating the Patagonian landscape through the sport of trail running, in an effort to attract ...
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Adidas says that more than 30 percent of the cotton...
Adidas says that more than 30 percent of the cotton it sourced in 2014 was sustainable cotton, or Better Cotton, exceeding a target of 25 percent. It came mainly from farmers in India, Pakistan and Brazil. As a founding member of the Better Cotton Initiative, Adidas has pledged to use ...
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Ykk is working on the development of an “Eco-Dye” technology...
Ykk is working on the development of an “Eco-Dye” technology that aims to reduce to nearly zero the quantity of water used for dyeing zippers. The company is currently working on the application of the Sfd technology, a method which uses carbon dioxide (CO2) as a dyeing medium that makes ...
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Forum Sport, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain, is supplying...
Forum Sport, the Spanish sporting goods retail chain, is supplying clothing and equipment to the Red Cross to help disadvantaged people, while continuing to raise funds for the fight against multiple sclerosis
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Adidas ranks third among the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations...
Adidas ranks third among the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World. Corporate Knights, a Toronto-based media and investment advisory company, announced its tenth-annual list of the world's most sustainable companies, also known as the Global 100, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21. The ...
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Bluesign has reminded bluesign-certified manufacturers and brands that they are...
Bluesign has reminded bluesign-certified manufacturers and brands that they are to have no long-chain C8 durable water repellents (DWR) in their products or supply chains as from Jan. 1. However, the Swiss certification company also mentioned that the positive list of bluesign-approved chemical products (bluesign bluefinder) includes several short-chain DWR ...
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Haglöfs has won the Sustainability Brand of the Year award,...
Haglöfs has won the Sustainability Brand of the Year award, from the Swedish trade magazine Sportfack. It was presented at Swesport, the Swedish outdoor and sports trade show, which ran in Stockholm on Jan. 11-12. In 2013, Haglöfs defined an array of ambitious sustainability goals that would be achieved in ...
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Primaloft has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC). It will...
Primaloft has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC). It will contribute data and resources to support the Higg Index. More than 140 companies are already members of SAC, incluing global members and retailers such as Adidas, Nike, VF Corp., C&A, Gap and H&M.
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Fjällräven has made a “Down Promise” that all its new...
Fjällräven has made a “Down Promise” that all its new products will only use ethically produced down feathers of the highest quality. After several years of work on this increasingly sensitive issue, the Swedish company says it is now working with one supplier who shares its views on animal welfare, ...
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VF Corporation and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the...
VF Corporation and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, have announced they have distributed loans to three garment factories in Bangladesh - Arunima Sportswear, Olio Apparels, and Radisson Apparel – totaling $1.3 million, under a new program for funding fire and building safety improvements. Through the ...
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Releasing its first Sustainability and Responsibility Report, VF Corp. says...
Releasing its first Sustainability and Responsibility Report, VF Corp. says it will expand its CHEM-IQ program, intended to identify and eliminate, by 2015, harmful chemicals before they reach the manufacturing process. The report states that 10 percent of VF's sales are made with eco-friendly products and that 3 percent of ...
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The Swedish outdoor and lifestyle brand Didriksons has completely eliminated...
The Swedish outdoor and lifestyle brand Didriksons has completely eliminated the use of fluorocarbons in all its products for its spring 2015 collection. According to an article published in Sportfack, Didriksons has been phasing out fluorocarbon base treatments for water repellency for years, and has now found a material that ...
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Kering has announced a five-year partnership with the London College...
Kering has announced a five-year partnership with the London College of Fashion's Centre for Sustainable Fashion. The collaboration will include a series of annual talks, an annual fashion prize and academic modules focused on green fashion issues. The Kering Talks will take place in October each year, with leaders and visionaries ...
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Lululemon has announced a partnership with the Dalai Lama. The...
Lululemon has announced a partnership with the Dalai Lama. The yogawear retailer said it will donate $750,000 over the next three years to the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education, the Tibetan spiritual leader's nonprofit organization, in a “mind-body-heart” project.
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Skechers hosted the sixth Skechers Friendship Walk on Oct. 26,...
Skechers hosted the sixth Skechers Friendship Walk on Oct. 26, and raised more than $1 million at the event. The initiative, which takes place every year in Manhattan Beach, California – where Skechers is headquartered - aims to raise money for children with disabilities and educational projects through the Skechers ...
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Décathlon is the world's fifth largest consumer of organic cotton....
Décathlon is the world's fifth largest consumer of organic cotton. According to the global ranking published each year by TextileExchange, the non-profit organization committed to the responsible expansion of textile sustainability across the global textile value chain, Décathlon has made its first ever appearance in the ranking, coming in behind ...
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Sympatex Technologies is the title sponsor of “Trail of Change”...
Sympatex Technologies is the title sponsor of “Trail of Change” for the second consecutive year, a scientific expedition project led by geomorphologist Hannes Künkel to investigate climate change in the Himalayas. This year, it will take place in Annapurna Himal, widely regarded as the wildest high mountain region in the ...
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Keen footwear and its partner Respect The Mountains have announced...
Keen footwear and its partner Respect The Mountains have announced that this summers' eight events for the Envirotrek Clean Up Series yielded the campaigns' greatest ever returns with 5,120kg of rubbish being collected, almost double that collected during the 2013 campaign. The 2014 series, in its sixth year, visited six ...
