All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 132
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ArticleRab and Lowe Alpine join Fair Wear Foundation
The British outdoor brands Rab and Lowe Alpine, subsidiaries of Equip Outdoor Technologies UK Ltd, have joined the Fair Wear Foundation. For Rab and Lowe Alpine, this is an important milestone in their sustainability strategy and underlines their efforts to improve their ethical, social and environmental standards and to take ...
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Ortovox launches new online appearance with stationary retail integration
With the “Support Your Local Dealer” campaign, 25 percent of the sales of the Ortovox online shop went to local retailers during the Covid-19 store closures, which was only made technically possible by the recent relaunch of the Ortovox website and online shop. The decision to relaunch was made last ...
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Timberland continues to invest in regenerative agriculture
Timberland has partnered with the Savory Institute, a non-profit focused on the large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands, to build a regenerative leather supply chain. This new initiative builds on the brand’s announcement, in November 2019, of a collaboration with Other Half Processing to build a leather supply chain sourced ...
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ArticleWGSN sees three major consumer groups emerging from the crisis
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated societal changes and is forcing industries worldwide to adapt to the resulting changes in consumption. Thus, WGSN has set out to predict what consumers will be looking for in the next couple of years. In its annual Future Consumer white paper, the trend forecasting company ...
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News briefsOberalp releases handbook for consumers
Source: Oberalp Group The Oberalp Handbook Italian Oberalp Group has just released its annual sustainability report, sharing the initiatives and main achievements of the group as well of its brands Salewa, Dynafit, Wild Country, Pomoca and Evolv. In addition to the report, the company has also published ...
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News briefsHoudini endorses the 1.5°C Business Playbook
The 1.5°C Business Playbook was first presented at the World Economic Forum 2020 in Davos as a spin-off of the world’s leading Exponential Roadmap co-founded by Johan Falk of the Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC). The Playbook is based on four different pillars. Each of the pillars is designed to help ...
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Arc’teryx urges politics to include climate among post-Covid 19 priorities
Arc’teryx Equipment has joined 155 multinational companies in a statement jointly issued by the Science Based Targets Initiative, the UN Global Compact and the We Mean Business coalition that urges governments to include climate action in their strategies to rebuild the economy after the coronavirus epidemic. The other signatories include ...
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News briefsAntje von Dewitz’ book now available
Antje von Dewitz’ German-language book “Mut steht uns gut” (“Courage suits us well”), about which we reported earlier, will finally be available as of May 20 in the Vaude webshop and assorted bookshops in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Von Dewitz, managing director of Vaude, explains: “In my book, I am ...
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News briefsSIA, OIA and NSAA join call for climate action in the U.S.
The U.S. Outdoor Business Climate Partnership (OBCP) – an alliance between Snowsports Industries America (SIA), the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) and the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) – joined “Lead On Climate 2020,” the largest ever call-to-action in the U.S. from the business community to the Congress to protect America’s ...
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ArticleHoudini releases whitepaper for a sustainable post-Covid-19 world
A year ago, when Swedish brand Houdini Sportswear launched the project to explore regenerative lifestyles that could support the goals of the Half-Earth Project, no one was expecting a coronavirus pandemic with all its consequences. With Covid-19, the world has changed in profound ways and in just a few weeks; ...
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ArticleDigital presentation of Oberalp’s summer 2021 highlights and sustainability report 2019
The Oberalp Group will present the summer 2021 highlights of its Salewa, Dynafit, Wild Country, Evolv and Pomoca brands live and internationally with simultaneous translations on the Internet on May 20 at 17:00 CET. The mountain sports company with headquarters in South Tyrol, Italy, is reacting to the current restrictions ...
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News briefsTNF opens Covid-19 Explore Fund in the UK, Germany, France and Italy
The North Face (TNF) has opened the application process for its Covid-19 Explore Fund. With the new fund worth €1 million, the outdoor brand wants to provide critical financial support to people and organizations that make adventure possible, such as mountain guides and climbing coaches, or urban climbing gyms and ...
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Canada Goose wants 90% bluesign-approved fabrics by 2025
Canada Goose has announced its commitment to reach 90 percent bluesign®-approved fabrics by 2025. The pledge is part of Canada Goose’s Sustainable Impact Strategy. The brands who commit to being a bluesign® System Partner have their supply chain thoroughly assessed to ensure that their products and processes meet the stringent ...
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News briefsTimberland releases 2019 CSR report
In 2019, Timberland, a VF Corp. brand, continued to push forward with its sustainability goals. For all cotton sourced by Timberland, including licenced apparel and accessories, Timberland increased its use of sustainably sourced cotton by 3 percent over the previous year to reach 77.5 percent. As for leather, 99.7 percent ...
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Eurosima and OSV launch their 2020 call for innovative projects
Eurosima and Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV) maintain and renew their call for innovative projects in outdoor action sports. Projects should focus on the development of products or services, the start-up of businesses or the diversification of existing projects towards innovation or eco-design. All current and future members of the two ...
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Vasque Footwear supports Children & Nature Network
Vasque, the American children’s outdoor shoe brand, is partnering with the Children & Nature Network to increase access to nature for children and families. Headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Children & Nature Network is a non-profit organization that supports people and organizations working to reconnect children with nature. ...
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Garmont donates footwear
The U.S. division of Garmont is donating 1,000 pairs of tactical boots to first responders in the state of New York. The donation is part of the Italian footwear brand’s #StayWild #HopeWild social good initiative, which itself began with the donation of a special Tikal Tricolore shoe to the Protezione ...
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ArticleStadium starts second-hand online store, rents outdoor gear
Stadium, the largest sports retail chain in Sweden with a strong presence in Finland, revealed its partnership with eBay (operated in Sweden by eBay’s subsidiary Tradera) to launch a second-hand online shop for sports and outdoor products as a new business segment. Like most others, Stadium has been hit hard ...
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Canada Goose publishes first sustainability report
Canada Goose has launched its ”Sustainable Impact Strategy,” which is set out in the company’s very first sustainability report. The strategy includes “tangible commitments” that support some of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs). These commitments include: climate neutrality with direct and indirect (Scope 1 and 2) net zero ...
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LifeStraw publishes 2019 Responsibility Report
LifeStraw, a specialist in water filtration and purification for outdoor sports and recreation, has published its 2019 responsibility report. Among the most important results is the provision for 1.19 million school children in low-income communities to access clean water for one year through the brand’s retail Give Back Program. In ...
