This is how the sporting goods industry deals with CSR & Sustainability – Page 84
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Houdini Sportswear is opening an eco-sustainable store in Gothenburg this...
Houdini Sportswear is opening an eco-sustainable store in Gothenburg this month. The Swedish company claims it will be Sweden's greenest store. This has been made possible through the collaboration with Vasakronan, a major real estate firm managing 192 properties in the country with a total area of around 2,600,000 square ...
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Anta has sent money and materials worth $800,000 to communities...
Anta has sent money and materials worth $800,000 to communities in China's Ludian County, Yunnan province, after the area was hit by an earthquake on Aug. 3. The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 6.1, resulted in the deaths of more than 600 people. The Chinese sports footwear group said ...
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Houdini Sportswear will open an eco-sustainable store in Gothenburg in...
Houdini Sportswear will open an eco-sustainable store in Gothenburg in September. The Swedish company claims it will be Sweden's greenest store. This will be made possible through the collaboration with Vasakronan, a major real estate firm managing 192 properties in the country with a total area of around 2,600,000 square ...
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Amer Sports' Winter Sports Operations have received the Austrian Phoenix...
Amer Sports' Winter Sports Operations have received the Austrian Phoenix 2014 waste management award for their production site in Altenmarkt, Austria. The Austrian Water and Waste Management Association (ÖWAV) presented the annual award for the 13th time to companies that are particularly innovative in the area of environmental protection and ...
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Sport 2000 International is to launch a new sustainability initiative...
Sport 2000 International is to launch a new sustainability initiative named “Green&Fair,” which will aim at making sustainability visible for outdoor product consumers. The initiative will be launched together with a group of outdoor brands and Bluesign Technologies, the Swiss-based environmental certification company. The campaign, whose slogan will be “Please ...
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Kering has been recognized as one of the “greenest” company's...
Kering has been recognized as one of the “greenest” company's worldwide by Newsweek Magazine's Green Rankings, coming in fourth position in the overall Global 500 in Newsweek Green Rankings list and as top-ranked in consumer discretionary companies within the Global 500. Kering's inclusion in the 2014 Newsweek Green Rankings is ...
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Uvex will be changing to 100 percent renewable energies for...
Uvex will be changing to 100 percent renewable energies for all of its locations in Germany. The company has signed a contract with Infra Fürth, a supplier of green energy that is certified by German Technical Control Board (TÜV), in order to secure a more sustainable production. The contract runs ...
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Crocs reduced volatile organic compounds by 16.5 percent per pair...
Crocs reduced volatile organic compounds by 16.5 percent per pair in 2013 and is aiming for another 10 percent reduction this year. The footwear brand, which has just released its 2013 sustainability report, said it also completed its first greenhouse gas inventory, which included manufacturing facilities and headquarters. The company ...
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Kering, the parent company of Puma and other sports and...
Kering, the parent company of Puma and other sports and luxury brands, won this year's Global Leadership Award in Sustainable Apparel at a ceremony in Copenhagen a few days ago. It deserved the honor because the group has adopted the pioneering Environmental Profit & Loss Account developed by the former ...
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IC Companys, parent company of Peak Performance, is joining the...
IC Companys, parent company of Peak Performance, is joining the Leather Working Group, whose members include companies such as Ecco, H&M and Timberland. The groups has an internet-based grading system that measures the level of compliance by tanners with specific guidelines for the level of harmful substances in leather and ...
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More than 100 workers in Cambodian factories supplying Adidas and...
More than 100 workers in Cambodian factories supplying Adidas and Puma fainted at work at the end of March after being overcome by fumes, possibly related to poor or absent ventilation systems. The episode, as reported by police and workers to Reuters, involved 118 employees at the Shen Zhou and ...
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Timberland said in its annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report...
Timberland said in its annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report that it has exceeded its targets for the sustainabillity of the manufacturing processes used by its suppliers. In 2013, around 70 percent of its apparel and footwear was made in factories meeting its “Level 3” criteria, against a previously set ...
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Columbia Sportswear said that by raising over $123,000 in 2013...
Columbia Sportswear said that by raising over $123,000 in 2013 alone, its overall donation from its Tested Tough in Pink Collection exceeded $1 million. Since 2007 the U.S.-based outdoor company, in collaboration with participating retailers, has helped the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) provide thousands of free mammograms and early ...
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Keen supplied 200 pairs of boots, shoes and socks...
Keen supplied 200 pairs of boots, shoes and socks for the victims of the floods in the Somerset region of the U.K.
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A Vietnamese factory, Saitex, will make shoes for Puma with...
A Vietnamese factory, Saitex, will make shoes for Puma with recycled denim, cut from used jeans, using solar power and responsible water collection and waste treatment in the manufacturing process. The profits from this Re-Cut Project will be donated to the Bo Tho orphanage near Ho Chi Minh City, close ...
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Jack Wolfskin says that half of its winter collection will...
Jack Wolfskin says that half of its winter collection will be made without the use of perfluorinated and polyfluorinated compounds (PFCs) as from 2014, two years ahead of schedule. In 2013, Jack Wolfskin made a commitment, under the motto “Going the extra mile,” to completely ban harmful chemicals from the ...
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Blake Mycoskie, the American social entrepreneur and author who funded...
Blake Mycoskie, the American social entrepreneur and author who funded Toms Shoes, is joining the B Team, the not-for-profit initiative of Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin, and Jochen Zeitz, the former chief executive of Puma International who initiated the environmental profit and loss accounting system adopted by Kering. The ...
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Adidas has defended itself against claims by Greenpeace International that...
Adidas has defended itself against claims by Greenpeace International that it has failed to fulfill commitments to reduce releases of toxic chemicals from its facilities. In its newly-launched Detox Catwalk initiative, Greenpeace included sportswear companies like Adidas, Nike and Li Ning in a list of “greenwashers.” The Detox campaign wants ...
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The Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, Germany has developed some new...
The Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, Germany has developed some new tests to determine the so-called “g-value,” a measure for the energy transmittance of materials. Textile manufacturers can use the results of these tests to optimize their products with specific regard to low energy transmission. The g-value is composed of the ...
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VF Corp. is currently developing a list of chemicals whose...
VF Corp. is currently developing a list of chemicals whose use will be banned in the production processes of its suppliers. The company also intends to control the finished products to ensure compliance. This is what Peter Higgins, senior manager, product and supply chain sustainability for the group, announced at ...
