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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 ...
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Nike pledges tens of millions for social justice
On behalf of its Nike, Jordan and Converse brands, Nike has pledged to invest $40 million over the next four years in organizations working in social justice, education and economic empowerment. The company announced on June 5, for starters, that it would be conferring three grants of $1 million to ...
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Nike backs Transform to Net Zero initiative
Nike is among the companies and organizations that have launched Transform to Net Zero, a new coalition to help all businesses reduce their carbon emissions in line with a 1.5°C global warming target. Besides Nike, the founding members are A.P. Moller - Maersk, BSR, Danone, Environmental Defense Fund, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, ...
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UA makes new diversity pledges
On its website Under Armour has published new objectives in its quest to “advance diversity and inclusion” in its ranks. In addition to filling 30 percent of its executive posts above the grade of director with “Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)” by 2023, as it has already pledged ...
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Ecco joins Facebook boycott
Ecco said it is continuously reviewing advertising efforts on social media platforms “to be in alignment with company values” after its U.S. arm earlier this month joined a growing list of firms boycotting Facebook and Instagram to protest policies for handling online hate speech and misinformation. Ecco USA is pausing ...
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Nike joins consortium pushing for a net-zero economy
Nike has joined eight other corporations outside the sporting goods industry and a U.S. non-profit organization, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), in forming a consortium to urge the world toward a net-zero economy by 2050 and help keep the earth’s overall warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. BSR, a sustainability non-profit ...
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Fesi is promoting European School Sport Day
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) and the Moving Schools Alliance are working together to promote the European School Sport Day (ESSD), the main event of the #BeActive European Week of Sport. This year’s ESSD is scheduled for a requisite 120 minutes of activity (in several sessions, ...
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Napapijri’s Circular Series obtains Cradle to Cradle Gold certification
Napapijri’s Circular Series of fully recyclable jackets has been recognized as Cradle to Cradle Certified Gold, the standard for safe, circular and responsible materials and products. In order to receive certification, products are assessed for environmental and social performance across five sustainability categories: material health, material re-use (achieved via either ...
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Macron posts 15.6% sales growth and moves to a new green HQ.
Macron, the Italian specialist in team sports jerseys, posted consolidated revenues of €113.1 million in 2019, which represented a 15.6 percent increase as compared to the previous year and the third consecutive year of double-digit sales growth. Ebitda rose by 16 percent to €15 million. The Italian sportswear company, based ...
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Covid-19 cases at a JD Sports warehouse
A local track-and-trace system has identified a few Covid-19 infections among the employees at JD Sports Fashion’s main warehouse at the Kingsway Business Park in Rochdale, near Manchester. These employees are now self-quarantined at home. Working with the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS), the company has set up a mobile ...
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Five years of Adidas with Parley for the Oceans
Adidas presented a new limited-edition sneaker for the fifth anniversary of its collaboration with Parley for the Oceans. The company said it would donate €30 to the NGO for each pair of the model sold in the first three days of the promotion. The partnership between Adidas and Parley for ...
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Focusing on core brands, Pentland invests on sustainability and digitalization
Having completed a “strategic review,” Pentland Brands will be refocusing on its core brands: Speedo, Berghaus, Endura, Canterbury, Mitre, Ellesse, Kickers and SeaVees. To this end, it will “hibernate” the Boxfresh brand of men’s shoes and lay off about 350 employees from its headquarters in the U.K. According to Pentland ...
