News briefs – Page 24
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News briefsFoot Locker wants to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
Foot Locker has announced its ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 or sooner, answering the call to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5°C as well as feedback from stakeholders. This target was described by the specialty athletic retailer as “an important milestone in the company’s ...
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News briefsNew Nike Athlete Think Tank worth $1.3 million
Nike has launched the Nike Athlete Think Tank. A platform designed to support women and girls in sports. “Because women and girls don’t have equal access to play and sport, we teamed up to share our experiences and turn insights into action and fight for gender equality,” tennis player and ...
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News briefsPuma turns old football jerseys into new ones
Re:Jersey is the name of Puma’s pilot project for the recycling of football jerseys. The aim is to turn old jerseys into new ones. Manchester City is already scheduled to receive its warm-up jerseys for league matches from the clothing recycling project by the end of April. The main component ...
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News briefsArchroma offers metal-free black and navy dyeing solutions for polyamide
Source: Archroma Archroma launches long-awaited metal-free* and halogen-free* Nylosan® S navy and black colors for sportswear Swiss specialty chemicals provider Archroma, based in Pratteln, has added two new metal-free and acid-free acid dyes into its Nylosan S range. Nylosan Navy S-3R and Black S-3N were specially developed ...
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News briefsJob portal for refugees from Ukraine
Thousands of refugees from the war zone in Ukraine are currently forced to settle in new places and are looking for a way to earn a living. To help with this, www.jobaidukraine.com, an initiative for Ukrainian refugees, was launched by the German initiative “Händler helfen Händlern” (“retailers support retailers”) as ...
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News briefsBeckham hands over Instagram account to doctor in Kharkiv
This week, David Beckham gives the term “influencer” a whole new meaning by handing over control of his Instagram account to a Ukrainian doctor. Iryna, a pediatric anesthesiologist and head of the regional perinatal center, shows the soccer star’s 71.8 million followers the conditions at her clinic in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s ...
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News briefsAdidas to release English-language children’s book with U.S. soccer star Trinity Rodman
U.S. professional soccer player Trinity Rodman has collaborated with Adidas to release a children’s book about the resilience, perseverance and optimism that have helped her achieve the unprecedented success she has had in her career to date. As “Wake Up and Kick It” shows, there were many early mornings and ...
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News briefsABG suspends all branded retail and e-com operations in Russia
Authentic Brands Group (ABG), the owner of a wide range of lifestyle and fashion brands including Airwalk, Eddie Bauer, Greg Norman, Muhammad Ali, Nautica, Prince, Reebok, Shaquille O’Neal, Spyder, Tretorn, Vision Street Wear and Volcom, announced that it has ceased all its branded retail and e-commerce operations in Russia effective ...
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Decathlon signs agreement with ADESP
According to CMDsport, Decathlon has signed an agreement on inclusivity, equality and sustainability with the Spanish Sports Association (ADESP). One of its programs is to mentor female managers in sports federations, another is to promote the employment of handicapped athletes, and yet others aim to have athletes test Decathlon products ...
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News briefsReal Madrid will donate €1 million for Ukraine aid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol has announced that it will donate €1 million within the framework of “Everyone with Ukraine,” a campaign that was launched by the Real Madrid Foundation on March 5 to help alleviate the humanitarian needs of the displaced population in Ukraine. Some of the funds raised ...
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VF suspends commercial activities in Russia and supports refugees
VF Corp. has joined those companies temporarily suspending commercial operations in Russia. Accordingly, VF has closed Vans-operated retail stores across the country and suspended processing e-commerce orders through the Vans and The North Face brand websites, the company said. The VF Foundation has donated $250,000 to UNHCR, the United Nations ...
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News briefsNike releases 20th impact report
Nike has published Breaking Barriers - FY21 Nike Inc. Impact Report, which marks the company’s 20th year of reporting its corporate social responsibility (CSR) progress. According to the new report, Nike is on track with the majority of its 29 targets for 2025 and expects to keep all targets on ...
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News briefsDecathlon partners with GIZ on sustainability efforts in Vietnam
Decathlon and the German Development Agency (GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) will be collaborating this year on two joint initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of Vietnam’s garment and textile factories. The two joint projects are “Climate Protection through Sustainable Bioenergy Markets in Vietnam” (GIZ BEM) and “Fostering ...
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News briefsTrusTrace starts new software solution for real-time traceability from fiber to product
Software service supplier TrusTrace, based in Stockholm and Coimbatore, India, has launched its new TrusTrace Certified Material Compliance platform, a software solution that aims to link all purchase orders to production steps, certificates, supplier declarations and quality reports for real-time traceability. The new TrusTrace Certified Material Compliance service wants to ...
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News briefsCallaway Golf Company publishes 2021 sustainability report
Callaway Golf Company, the owner of the Callaway, Odyssey, Ogio, Topgolf, Jack Wolfskin and TravisMathew brands, has published its sustainability report 2021 to summarize the group’s global sustainability program across all brands’ corporate offices, facilities and global operations. As part of its ambition to drive improvement throughout operations and supply ...
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News briefsCharity platform Sport4ukraine calls for donations and doubles them
On the newly formed charity platform Sport4ukraine, founded by Siegbert Müller, managing director of Outtra, donations to help people in need in the wake of the war in Ukraine are collected. The project is supported by the organizations BSI, VDS, SAZsport, Sport 2000, and companies Alpenstrand, Chillaz, Ortlieb, Bergfreunde, Devold, ...
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News briefsAustrian Post, Intersport and other retailers launch pilot project for reusable packaging
In a joint pilot project supervised by the University of Upper Austria and organized and managed with Austrian Post, five retail companies in Austria are using new types of reusable shipping packaging. Among the online retailers in the project is Intersport Austria. Four different types of packaging made of cardboard, ...
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News briefsPuma is looking for 500 testers for the next phase of the Re:Suede project
Puma is looking for 500 people in Germany to join brand ambassadors such as Cara Delevingne and Raphaël Varane to test the Re:Suede sneaker and become part of the company’s experiment to find out if it is possible to produce a biodegradable version of the classic Suede, one of the ...
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News briefsOrthoLite introduces fully compostable midsole foam
Insole specialist OrthoLite and Vietnam-based material solutions company Cirql have introduced a plant-based biopolymer foam that is EVA plastic-free, recyclable, compostable and comes with an end-of-life solution. The new OrthoLite Cirql sole offerings have their own website and claim to be the critical solution for true circularity within the footwear ...
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News briefsPangaia commits to reach net zero operations by 2040
Pangaia, a London-based materials science company, has released its official commitment to its carbon reduction goals and its progress in adopting an earth-positive business model. The announcement was shared together with a short film that illustrates Pangaia’s ethos of “high-tech naturalism.” Pangaia is positioned as a ”Nature-As-A-Solution” (NAAS) company, with ...
