LATEST News and Analysis – Page 55
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Speedo aids black people in the U.K. to swim
Speedo is partnering with the Black Swimming Association of the U.K. to help remove barriers that cause 95% of black adults and 80% of black children not to be engaged in swimming, providing swimwear and equipment for BSA’s projects. Speedo and the BSA had previously collaborated to produce a film ...
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News briefsKeen donates up to $20,000 for wildfire relief efforts
As devastating wildfires in the states of Oregon, Washington and California have been destroying or threatening lives, property and nature, Keen Footwear has announced that he will donate 1 percent of its U.S. sales from keenfootwear.com, up to a total of $20,000, to relief programs. The money will go to ...
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ArticleMore firms switch to rail to send goods to and from China, but….
A train loaded with Lenzing fibers, which left Vienna, Austria, on Aug. 20, reached its destination, the Xinzhu station in Xi’an, China, after only 16 days. The train, which carried 41 containers of Tencel™ Lyocell and Modal fibers with a total value of €1.8 million, covered a total of 10,460 ...
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Nike and 11teamsports support intercultural football in Berlin
11teamsports, which claims to be the largest internet retailer for teams sports in the German-speaking area, collected over €8,000 for Champions without Borders, a non-profit organization in Berlin that promoted intercultural football projects for refugees. The sum will be donated to the association in the form of team equipment. 11teamsports ...
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Vivobarefoot obtains B Corp certification
Vivobarefoot has obtained B Corporation certification, which is granted to businesses that “meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose,” according to B Lab, the non-profit organization that manages the certification scheme. It was given a high ranking, ...
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News briefsAlpkit receives B Corp certificate
The British outdoor and bike brand Alpkit was able to raise £1.5 million (€1.6m-$1.9m) in an investment campaign launched on the CrowdCube funding platform in July. Part of the news was that Alpkit wanted to achieve B Corporation Certification by 2022. Well, it happened much faster as the company announced ...
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PrimaLoft Bio styles available from 16 brands in the autumn
Primaloft is partnering with more than 15 outdoor sports, fashion, lifestyle and home furnishing brands to introduce PrimaLoft® Bio™ to consumers in the autumn. According to the company, PrimaLoft Bio is the first biodegradable synthetic insulation and performance fabric made from 100 percent recycled materials, primarily plastic bottles. Specifically, 93.8 ...
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Salomon to release a shoe model designed for recycling
Next February, Salomon will be introducing a running shoe for the circular economy, using recycled polyester that can subsequently be re-purposed for the brand’s ski boots, in time for release in winter 2022. The fruit of a purported three years’ research at the brand’s Annecy Design Center in the French ...
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CSR & SUSTAINABILITY
+++ Icebreaker, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, has vowed to become 100% plastic-free by 2023/24 +++
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News briefsLöffler is climate-neutral
In contrast to many other companies for whom the relocation of many production steps to the Far East has become the norm, the Austrian sports clothing manufacturer Löffler is proud to have responsibly produced in Austria and Europe since the company was founded in 1947. For many years, the company ...
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The fashion industry will likely miss key climate change goal
According to a new report from the Global Fashion Agenda and McKinsey & Co., entitled Fashion on Climate, the global fashion industry will miss its 2030 emissions reduction targets by 50 percent if it continues on its current path. In 2018, the apparel and footwear industry was responsible for around ...
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ArticleEcco and others donate bicycles in developing countries
As part of the company’s corporate responsibility program, the Danish shoe brand is donating bicycles to children in Vietnam. While this is just one of Ecco's aid projects - others include donating school supplies to schools in Thailand or funding mobile libraries in Indonesia - it is a great example ...
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ArticleIntersport Germany publishes 2018-19 CSR report
With the publication of its third CSR report, Intersport Deutschland has confirmed its long-term sustainability orientation. The first report in 2014/15 was the result of the so-called “Heilbronn Declaration,” in which Intersport, together with other companies from the Heilbronn-Franken region where the company headquarters are located, agreed on responsible and ...
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Globe International is going solar at its HQ
Globe International is installing solar power arrays at its headquarters in Port Melbourne, Australia, effectively switching away from coal as an energy source. The system – designed and to be installed by Solpod, an Australian company specializing in solar – will consist of about 650 commercial solar panels and should ...
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Toray to introduce a bio-based nylon
Toray, the Japanese chemical and materials company, has developed a nylon 60 percent of whose contents are drawn from a biological source – specifically, the sebacic acid in castor beans. Given the trade name Ecodear Nylon, the fiber can be spun in the same manner as conventional nylons, is both ...
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Lanxess sells organic leather chemicals business, launches Adiprene Green
The German specialty chemicals company Lanxess is selling its organic leather chemicals business to TFL Ledertechnik. The purchase price is made up from a fixed component of €80 million and a performance-related component of up to €115 million. In addition, TFL will assume certain liabilities associated with the business. Lanxess ...
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Anta and the WWF agree to international partnership
The Anta Group has announced a new agreement with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) that commits both parties to jointly invest more resources on sustainable environmental development, to drive the sustainability transformation of the textile industry and enhance biodiversity conservation. Based on a three-year collaboration framework, the two ...
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Burton receives labor and environmental accreditation
The social compliance program at Burton Snowboards has been accredited by the Fair Labor Association (FLA). According to the FLA’s president and chief executive, Sharon Waxman, the American snowboarding and mountaineering company has undergone multiple years of scrutiny and set up suitable systems to detect and remedy unfair labor practices ...
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Internetstores seeks to join the circular economy
Internetstores, the Germany bike and outdoor retailer, has hired the consulting firm EPEA, headquartered in the same city of Stuttgart, to overhaul environmental policy for its full value chain. EPEA began a three-month review of operations in June, after which it will draft a comprehensive proposal – with its “Cradle ...
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Nike joins Time to Vote
Nike is celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act by becoming a member of an association called Time to Vote. Passed in 1965 and since amended many times, the Voting Rights Act serves essentially to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was ratified in 1870 ...
