All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 19
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Nilson Group invests in sustainability
Nilson Group, the leading shoe retailer in Sweden, undertook a number of initiatives last year to make its shoe production more sustainable. In addition to introducing the “A Better Choice” collection, made in part from recycled or organic materials, the group increased its support for Human Bridge, which takes used ...
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ID Factory offers free platform access to leathergoods companies
According to the online portal Footwearbiz, the ID Factory of Arzignano, Italy, is offering a six-month access, free of charge, to a basic version of its platform to companies in leather industry. The company provides cloud-based data-sharing systems for businesses in the fashion supply chain, and its service should therefore ...
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LVMH donates ventilators, makes masks
LVMH, the luxury giant controlled by Bernard Arnault, is donating 261 ventilators to French hospitals to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Twenty of these devices have already been delivered to hospitals, according to Bloomberg. LVMH has also reopened 12 of its 16 Louis Vuitton handbag factories to sew non-surgical face ...
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Tod’s owners help healthcare workers’ families
In an appropriate gesture of solidarity, the family of Diego and Andrea Della Valle, which controls Tod’s, has reportedly allocated €5 million to support the families of healthcare workers who have lost their lives in the fight against Covid-19. The funds will be managed by Protezione Civile, a department of ...
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Sanita donation
Sanita, the brand specializing in professional clogs, has announced that it will be donating a part of every purchase from April 3 through the end of the month to support medical providers and hospitality workers, in connection with the ongoing coronavirus crisis. These professional categories also happen to ...
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Havaianas for healthcare workers
Alpargatas, the Brazilian group that owns the Havaianas brand, has converted its production lines to produce clogs for the medical sector. The company will donate 18,000 pairs of shoes designed for use by healthcare professionals in São Paulo hospitals, made in the Havaianas factories in place of flip-flop sandals. Through ...
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Portuguese footwear factories are producing masks
Several footwear companies in Portugal’s northern towns of Felgueiras, Oliveira da Azemeis and São João da Madeira are temporarily replacing the production of footwear with the manufacturing of medical masks, according to the website of the country’s footwear association, Apiccaps. The equipment will be donated to healthcare professionals and nursing ...
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Ferragamo contributes to renovation of Florentine hospital
In a move intended to alleviate the healthcare problems caused by Covid-19, Salvatore Ferragamo and a Florentine foundation have financed the renovation of two wards of a disused hospital in Florence, I Fraticini, which now has 60 beds for patients recovering from the novel coronavirus or who need to be ...
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European Social Innovation Competition
The European Commission is seeking sustainable fashion ideas. This year’s European Social Innovation Competition has the theme “Reimagine Fashion: Changing behaviors for sustainable fashion,” and is seeking early-stage initiatives to reduce fashion’s environmental footprint and improve its societal effects. Solutions must be scalable at the local, national or European levels. ...
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Bally unveils phase two of Peak Outlook
Bally – one of several footwear brands to have signed the Fashion Pact, an initiative conceived by the Macron administration in France and entrusted to François-Henri Pinault, chairman and chief executive of Kering – has unveiled the second phase of its Bally Peak Outlook, launched in 2019. Bally has now ...
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Bata Italy supports anti-violence campaign
Bata Italy has supported the “Indifesa” campaign, an initiative by Terre des Hommes to protect girls from violence and discrimination. The footwear retailer donated €2 for each pair of shoes sold from Feb. 25 to March 8, International Women’s Day. The donation will be used to set up a new ...
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Etnies expands tree-planting program
Etnies is expanding its “Buy a Shoe, Plant a Tree” project, which calls for the donation of one tree to Trees for the Future for every purchase of a pair of shoes from this year’s collection. The program has already enabled the skate shoe brand to reach its goal of ...
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New anti-waste bill in France
France has announced an anti-waste bill that will forbid companies from destroying unsold fashion items, such as clothes, cosmetics and other items. Under the new law, the unsold or returned items on the list will have to be reused, redistributed or recycled. Previously, another law in the same spirit had ...
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Bluesign revises criteria
Bluesign has released revised criteria as part of its mission to help the fashion and textile industry reduce its environmental impact. Among its changes, the latest update brings increased consideration of definitions and terminology as well as the implementation of new sections, such as the criteria for fiber manufactures. This ...
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Texon seeking "zerofootprint"
Texon, the producer of materials for the footwear industry, is seeking to achieve what it calls a “zerofootprint” by 2025. It is pledging over the next five years to reduce its carbon footprint and use of virgin raw materials – particularly cellulose – by 50 percent, to increase the portion ...
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Consumers want sustainability on the cheap
A Business Conditions Survey released by World Footwear indicates that 56 percent of the experts consulted on the topic of sustainability believe that consumers prefer shoes with a less negative environmental impact than other shoes. However, only 29 percent of the 183 respondents felt that consumers are willing to pay ...
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LVMH producing hand gel
LVMH is backing the fight against the novel coronavirus disease in France by using its production facilities for fragrances to make large quantities of hydro-alcoholic gel, which are in scarce supply in the country. They will be donated to French authorities free of charge.
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Keen to donate shoes for coronavirus crisis
Keen Footwear has pledged to donate up to 100,000 pairs of shoes, worth about $10 million, to the workers on the front lines and the families at home fighting through the coronavirus crisis. The program is called “Together We Can Help.” As reported on snewsnet. com, within 24 hours of ...
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The 11th edition of the annual Skechers Pier to Pier...
The 11th edition of the annual Skechers Pier to Pier Friendship Walk, for children with special needs and students, has raised more than $2 million. The event drew Kodi Lee, winner of this season's America's Got Talent; the retired boxer Sugar Ray Leonard; the retired baseball player and coach Tommy ...
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An Italian charity initiative, “Anche con i Piedi si Può...
An Italian charity initiative, “Anche con i Piedi si Può Dare una Mano” (You can also lend a hand with your feet) has collected 21,500 pairs of shoes from five footwear manufacturers for children in Malawi. A further 26 companies have made financial contributions, funding the construction of 10 kindergartens ...
