All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 9

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    ​CCC Group plans to triple sales by 2025

    2021-11-29T08:37:00Z

    The Polish footwear and apparel retailer CCC Group plans to triple revenues to over 20 billion zloty (€4.2bn-$4.8bn) in 2025 largely thanks to the development of its online business and of its newly launched off-price banner HalfPrice, as well as an increased presence in apparel and accessories. The share of ...

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    Erem launches a new hiking boot

    2021-11-22T09:55:00Z

    Erem, a Nevada-based company founded in 2021, has unveiled a new hiking boot that is ”high on performance and low on environmental impact.” The collection launches with the men’s and women’s Xerocole and Xerocole Expedition boots, named after animals that thrive in desert environments. The uppers of the Xerocole collection ...

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    OrthoLite launches new sustainable insole technologies

    2021-11-22T09:43:00Z

    The U.S. brand OrthoLite is introducing two new sole technologies that elevate the total eco content of the insoles to 57 percent and 50 percent, respectively. The new soles, called HybridPlus-Bio and HybridPlus-Recycled, have been developed in the framework of Ortholite’s zero-waste initiative. While the “recycled” soles are made with ...

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    EU proposes new rules to fight deforestation, promote circular economy

    2021-11-17T17:11:00Z

    The European Commission has adopted three new initiatives proposing rules to curb deforestation, to facilitate intra-EU waste shipments to promote circular economy and tackle the export of waste to third countries. From 1990 to 2020 the world has lost 420 million hectares of forest, an area larger than the European ...

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    Expo Riva Schuh releases online events calendar

    2021-11-16T17:42:00Z

    Riva del Garda Fierecongressi, the organizers of Expo Riva Schuh and Gardabags, confirmed that the trade shows will be held Jan. 15-18 at the exhibition center of the Italian town of Riva del Garda to present collections for the autumn/winter 2022-2023 season. They also released a calendar of online events ...

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    Nike under suspicion of greenwashing in German media

    2021-11-15T14:36:00Z

    In a broad investigative joint journalistic effort, several German media have chased down returned Nike footwear (used and new) that had been tagged with GPS trackers and went into a recycling plant in Herenthout, Belgium, to be destroyed and recycled into the “Grind” material that Nike uses for gym floors, ...

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    Crocs to provide resale-as-a-service with ThredUp

    2021-11-09T16:56:00Z

    Crocs is launching a resale program with ThredUp’s Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform. The program is called “Clean Out” and is likewise intended to help the brand achieve net-zero carbon emissions – in this case by 2030 – and establish a circular economy. Customers in the U.S. can go online and print ...

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    VF makes new CSR pledges

    2021-11-02T16:08:00Z

    VF Corp’s fourth sustainability and responsibility report says the group will achieve zero waste verification at all its warehouses and distribution centers by the end of this year, compared with 72 percent at present. This would mean that at least 95 percent of their waste will be diverted from landfills. ...

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    ​Most U.S. footwear companies plan to increase the use of sustainable materials

    2021-11-02T07:52:00Z

    Sustainability continues to be a hot topic for U.S. footwear companies with 69 percent planning to use more bio-materials or recycled content in their upcoming collections while 49 percent of them are already asking material suppliers for certifications or life cycle assessments to verify claims, according to the 2021 Shoe ...

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    China to increase coal production by nearly 6%

    2021-10-19T11:27:00Z

    China is due to increase coal production by nearly 6 percent to address power shortages affecting the country, the news agency AFP reported citing the country’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). China is the world’s main coal producer and polluter, as well as the largest manufacturer of footwear, and ...

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    SBTi approves eBay’s ambitious climate action goal

    2021-10-17T08:49:00Z

    eBay’s ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets were approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The U.S. e-commerce company commits to cut its own (scope 1 and scope 2) emissions by 90 percent by 2030 from a 2019 base year, in line with limiting global temperature warming to 1.5°C ...

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    VF and WaterAid partner to vaccinate Cambodians

    2021-10-14T15:13:00Z

    In an effort to protect workers’ health and keep the supply chain steady, VF is supporting the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in Cambodia. VF’s Worker and Community Development program, partnering with the nonprofit WaterAid to support the rollout of the Cambodian government’s Covid-19 response plan. More than 20,000 factory workers ...

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    Allbirds revises IPO terms

    2021-10-12T08:41:00Z

    Allbirds has revised its proposals for an initial public offering (IPO). When the California-based B Corp producer of sustainable sneakers, filed its IPO application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission it announced that it was planning to go for the first “Sustainable Public Offering,” or SPO, pledging to ...

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    Tamaris tops sustainability ranking

    2021-10-10T14:48:00Z

    Tamaris, the leading brand of the German footwear company Wortmann Group, topped the ranking as the most sustainable footwear brand carried out by the German magazine Focus Money. In the magazine’s ”Deutschlands Beste – Nachhaltigkeit“ (Germany’s Best - Sustainability), Sioux finished second in the footwear category, followed by Ecco and ...

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    Adidas inaugurates a circular-fashion program with ThredUp

    2021-10-10T08:44:00Z

    Adidas has inaugurated a circular-fashion program, called “Choose to Give Back.” The German brand is inviting customers to earn rewards from its Creator’s Club by returning used apparel and accessories from any brand for resale or re-use. It works through a combination of Adidas’ Creator’s Club app and ThredUp’s Reseale-as-a-Service ...

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    Vibram’s “Repair if you care” campaign continues

    2021-10-05T09:08:00Z

    Vibram’s “Repair if you care” campaign, which focuses on the concept of reuse and repair as a sustainable approach, is entering a second round. The company, for which repair has played a central role for the past 80 years, underlines in it once again the importance of reprocessing shoes and ...

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    Keen launches sneakers made from agricultural waste

    2021-10-05T09:04:00Z

    Keen Footwear has unveiled a proprietary manufacturing process that uses agricultural waste to create what it claims to be the industry’s first sneakers with plant-based soles made without chemical solvents. The “Field to Foot” (F2F) sneakers are part of the Detox The Planet initiative and were developed by the Keen ...

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    Higg starts traceability program for supply chain sustainability

    2021-09-28T15:10:00Z

    Technology platform Higg has launched a new traceability program developed in collaboration with software, cloud and data processing specialists atma.io, FibreTrace and TrusTrace. The new technical solution aims to offer comprehensive transparency across the global supply chain – enabling brands to highlight and disclose sustainability information on their own and ...

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    Boohoo publishes global supply chain list as part of transparency drive

    2021-09-28T08:27:00Z

    The British fast fashion retailer Boohoo has published details of the 1,100 factories it uses worldwide, as it looks to boost transparency within its supply chain after a scandal last year over working conditions. Reports first emerged in September 2020 of unacceptable working conditions and pay at factories supplying Boohoo ...

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    Crocs is changing the material contents of its Classic Clog

    2021-09-21T07:53:00Z

    In a quest to halve its carbon footprint and achieve net zero emissions by 2030, Crocs has begun using a bio-based material that it has trademarked under the name Croslite. The brand’s idea is to change not the design but the composition of its signature product, the Classic Clog. This ...