All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 138
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News briefsPicture Organic Clothing bans single plastic packaging
The French brand Picture Organic Clothing is saying goodbye to individual plastic packaging in its streetwear collection for spring/summer 2021. Previously, all garments were packed in individual polybags, but now only the cartons in which the merchandise is shipped are to be provided with a protective plastic lining. Each garment ...
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Standard launches sustainable wintersports sock made in Portugal
Standard, the Australian sock company, has launched a sustainable technical sock for skiing and snowboarding. These socks use a yarn that is produced in Spain by Hilaturas Ferre, specialized in the production of colored yarns and threads from recycled cotton fibers. The socks are made in Portugal. The Woods sock ...
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ArticleLiv Cycling campaign underlines commitment to parity for women in cycling (Video)
Liv Cycling, a company founded in 2008 by Giant executive Bonnie Tu as part of the Giant Group company and dedicated to getting more women on bikes, has introduced Liv Committed, a global brand campaign reaffirming its commitment to women in cycling. The campaign highlights the ways Liv Cycling is ...
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ArticleRetail trends and sustainability: What outdoor retailers can do
In an article on the European Outdoor Group’s website, EOG Head of Retail Peter Ottervanger shared his thoughts on some of the key issues relating to emerging retail trends around sustainability, and how they link to the accelerating digital age.
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News briefsGoogle and WWF Sweden partner on platform for responsible sourcing
Google and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Sweden are teaming up on the development of a new environmental data platform that is meant to help drive more responsible sourcing decisions in the fashion industry. The new tool will combine Google Cloud’s big-data analysis and machine learning with WWF’s knowledge ...
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ArticleJack Wolfskin provides insight into supply chain and factory salaries
Jack Wolfskin recently published its annual social responsibility report for 2018/19. The German outdoor brand owned by the U.S. Callaway Golf Company currently works with 68 production partners in 12 different countries. Most of the production volume is sourced from Vietnam, Bangladesh, Cambodia and China. In the latest 68-page report, ...
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Isbjörn launches American webshop with artificial intelligence
Isbjörn of Sweden, the Swedish brand for sustainable outdoor kidswear, has opened its webshop in the U.S. and Canada. It features Isbjorn’s AI chatbot named Bernard, who has managed to reduce the brand’s European web returns by more than 50 percent since October 2019. Bernard will guide American customers through ...
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ArticleNew laundry habits could reduce ocean microfiber pollution
The thousands of microfibers that are released by fabrics during domestic textile washing end up in rivers, the sea and the ocean, causing marine microplastic pollution. A new study from Northumbria University, conducted in partnership with Procter & Gamble, has revealed that nearly 13,000 tons of microfibers are being released ...
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News briefsJack Wolfskin continues cooperation with Seaqual Ocean Project
Jack Wolfskin will continue to place a special focus on products made from recycled materials in the new summer season. The German outdoor company, which belongs to Callaway Golf, is continuing its cooperation with Seaqual from Spain, which started in early 2019, and is expanding the corresponding collection. Under the ...
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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 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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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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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 ...
