LATEST News and Analysis – Page 53
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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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Adidas announces further progress on recycled materials
In 2021, more than 60 percent of Adidas’ products will be made with sustainable materials such as recycled polyester or sustainable cotton, according to the company. By 2024, the brand will only use recycled polyester. All of the cotton it uses, the company adds, has been of the sustainable variety ...
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Zalando hires a “circularity director” away from H&M
Laura Coppen, who has been a major contributor to H&M’s sustainability efforts for almost five years, is joining Zalando to serve as “circularity director,” charged with implementing a program to promote greater transparency among its partner brands in the area of environmental protection. Her appointment follows a number of initiatives ...
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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 ...
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CSR & SUSTAINABILITY
+++ The International Surfing Association (ISA) has joined the United Nations Sports for Climate Action Framework, the program co-created by UN Climate Change and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in December 2018 to help sports lessen their impact on the environment +++ Inov-8 has donated £9,600 (€10,500-$12,900) to the Cumbria ...
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WFSGI joins the Centre for Sport and Human Rights
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) has joined the Advisory Council of the Centre for Sport and Human Rights (CSHR), based in Geneva. The CSHR is chaired by Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Centre is exclusively ...
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Many seek to ‘Make Amazon Pay’
Some 401 parliamentarians and public officials – among them Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of the U.K.’s Labour Party; Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former minister of finance; and Ilhan Omar and Rachida Tlaib, two members of the so-called “Squad” in the U.S. House of Representatives – have signed an open letter to ...
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Pentland reports on modern slavery
Pentland Brands has produced a report on labor practices in its supply chain. Called Modern Slavery, the report reviews such criteria as geography, political stability and worker demographics to gauge the likelihood of slavery’s use in various parts of the world. Homeworkers appear to be of particular concern for the ...
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Odlo is POW’s latest partner
The environmental NGO Protect our Winters (POW) has entered into a long-term partnership with Odlo, effective immediately. The cooperation is embedded in a long-term sustainability strategy by Odlo that is intended to redesign the brand’s presence in the market and in society, according to Knut Are Høgberg, chief executive of ...
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Pentland Brands publishes its first Positive Business report
Pentland Brands has released a new report in which it outlines its new three-pillar “Positive Business” strategy. It is based on: 1) building purpose-led brands; 2) reducing its environmental footprint; and 3) promoting circularity and collaboration. Pentland Brands owns Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury of New Zealand, Endura, Mitre, Ellesse, SeaVees, Kangaroos ...
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Deckers Brands highlights CSR goals and achievements in a new report
Deckers Brands has released its Creating Change FY20 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report, in which the group highlights its achievements toward its sustainable development goals during the reporting year from Apr. 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020. Deckers owns a portfolio of footwear, apparel and accessories brands for casual lifestyle ...
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ArticleBurton’s Chill Foundation launches a European chapter
The Chill Foundation, founded 25 years ago by Donna Carpenter and her late husband Jake Burton Carpenter, owners of Burton Snowboards, has set up a European office in Europe. The new Chill Europe is based in Zurich, where Donna Carpenter, joint chief executive of Burton, moved in 2019 to get ...
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Decathlon strikes a green-energy deal
Decathlon France has signed a long-term deal with Voltalia to purchase renewable electricity from a dedicated solar farm. The farm will be funded and built by the international green-energy specialist company in southeastern France and should commence operation by 2023. Decathlon will be taking some 16 megawatts of a total ...
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Vans donates $1 million to tackle mental health concerns through creativity
Vans will donate a total of $1 million to 10 charities from around the world that work on programs focused on creativity as a way of coping with the stress factors that impact mental health and well-being. Each charity will receive $100,000 from The Vans Checkerboard Fund at Tides Foundation ...
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Speedo names Cullen Jones as philanthropic sales manager
Speedo has announced the appointment of Cullen Jones, four-time Olympic medalist, to its North America team as the brand’s ”philanthropic sales manager.” He will be responsible for fund-raising initiatives and activities to build relationships with grassroots teams and community support strategies. Most recently, he was a development manager, responsible for ...
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Arc’teryx promotes second-hand gear for Black Friday
To shift the focus away from the mass consumption usually associated with Black Friday, Arc’teryx will be rewarding consumers in the U.S. and Canada who trade in their used equipment with a gift card worth 30 percent of an item’s original retail value, a 10 percent increase in the ...
