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Ecco joins effort to recycle polyurethane

1 October 2020

RePURpose, a consortium made up of the Danish Technological Institute and several Danish companies, among them Ecco, might have taken the first steps towards a recycling method for the ubiquitous plastic known as polyurethane (PU) that results in no loss of quality. For the moment, says Ecco’s chief executive, Steen ...

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Ecco wins German Design Award for two products

7 September 2020

Ecco has won the German Design Council’s annual German Design Award in the “Excellent Product Design” category for its Biom 2.0 trail shoe and its Exowrap all-terrain sandal. The overall competition for the awards consisted of more than 5,400 projects from 63 countries. The Biom 2.0 is a hybrid urban ...

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​Bicycle donations make a difference in developing countries

27 August 2020

As part of the company’s corporate responsibility program, the Danish shoe brand Ecco is donating bicycles to children in Vietnam. While this is just one of the aid projects - others include donating school supplies to schools in Thailand or funding mobile libraries in Indonesia - it is a great ...

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Ecco wins long-term tax dispute

7 August 2020

A long-standing dispute between the Danish footwear company Ecco and the Danish Tax Agency has finally been settled. The transfer pricing case was related to the company’s taxable income for 2005. The Danish Western High Court has ruled that Ecco did not break the rules for so-called transfer pricing. In ...

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Ecco next to boycott Facebook and Instagram

22 July 2020

Ecco said it is continuously reviewing advertising efforts on social media platforms “to be in alignment with company values” after its U.S. arm earlier this month joined a growing list of firms boycotting Facebook and Instagram to protest policies for handling online hate speech and misinformation. Ecco USA is pausing ...

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Ecco restructuring its European sales

26 March 2020

In an effort to get closer to consumers, Ecco has decided to restructure its European sales organization, decentralizing the management of its wholesale operations. They will be led by a dedicated general manager in each of the three European regions. In the framework of this reorganization, Erik Heldoorn, sales director ...