All Keen Footwear articles

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    IGOT has a new President

    28 June 2024

    Source: IGOT Perry Laukens Perry Laukens, Sales Director for Distributors EMEA at Keen Footwear, is the new President of the It’s Great Out There Coalition (IGOT). Laukens has spent over a decade at Keen and has a background in marketing and sales with Puma. Based in the ...

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    Keen lowers prices to “fight inflation”

    13 June 2023

    Hiking sandal and walking boot brand Keen has taken the unusual step of lowering its prices, even as prices across the industry continue to rise. Under a “price relief” URL tail on its website, Keen now displays the message, “We’ve lowered prices on nearly every Keen shoe on our site! ...

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    Keen releases new women’s crossover hiking shoe

    31 August 2022

    Source: Keen Footwear For autumn/winter 2022, Keen is introducing the Terradora Flex, a women’s hiking shoe designed the shoe for a sort of athleisure use, on the trail and in town. It combines the Terradora model’s fit with the Keen brand’s Bellows.Flex air-cushioning system, located at the ...

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    Over 70 guests join Equip Sustainability Summit in the Netherlands

    6 April 2022

    British outdoor brands Rab and Lowe Alpine (owned by Equip Outdoor Technologies Ltd.) have hosted the first Equip Sustainability Summit, on April 5 in the Netherlands. The event brought together more than 70 industry experts, retailers, stakeholders and outdoor enthusiasts to discuss options for a more sustainable outdoor industry. During ...

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    Keen launches sneakers made from agricultural waste

    1 October 2021

    Footwear brand Keen has unveiled a proprietary manufacturing process that uses agricultural waste to create 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 Advanced Concepts team. The ...

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    EOCA partners with Business for Nature global coalition

    29 September 2021

    By joining Business for Nature, a global coalition bringing together forward-thinking companies and conservation organizations, the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) wants to encourage businesses to act now to reverse nature loss and advocate for greater policy ambition. The coalition is aiming to amplify business voices calling for governments during ...

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    Keen launches recycled content certification program

    3 September 2021

    Portland-based footwear company Keen is starting a new sustainability initiative based on its growing Harvest line partly made from recycled materials. The new Harvest certification program is part of Keen’s “Detox the Planet” Initiative and is primarily a communication tool that offers transparency on how much industrial waste is recycled ...

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    Keen turns its process for PFC-free footwear open-source

    22 March 2021

    Portland, Oregon-based footwear brand Keen has developed an open-source model for manufacturing PFC-free footwear. To support this initiative, the brand has also challenged the entire outdoor footwear industry to be PFC-free by 2025. Product developers can visit www.keenfootwear.com/Detox to view details about the detoxification process Keen has followed since 2014 ...

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    Keen donates up to $20,000 to wildfire relief efforts

    16 September 2020

    While devastating fires in the states of Oregon, Washington and California on the U.S. west coast threaten and destroy lives, property and nature, the footwear brand Keen has decided to donate 1 percent of its U.S. sales from keenfootwear.com, up to a total of $20,000, to relief programs. The money ...

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    Keen and Garcia Family team up for limited edition and good cause

    14 August 2020

    Much to the chagrin of all “deadheads” – the nickname for fans of the band The Grateful Dead – on this side of the Atlantic, it probably won’t be available in Europe, but it’s worth noting that Keen has teamed up with the Jerry Garcia Family to present a new ...