All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 21
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VF Corp. is making available to consumers the « sourcing maps »...
VF Corp. is making available to consumers the « sourcing maps » for ten of its brands' most iconic products. The sourcing maps, which can be viewed on VF's sustainability website, are meant to ensure transparency about every step in the production of VF's apparel and footwear. The interactive maps show the ...
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Skechers has donated 15,000 pairs of new shoes to children...
Skechers has donated 15,000 pairs of new shoes to children affected by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico as part of the company's Bobs from Skechers philanthropic shoe program. Hurricane Maria hit the island in the second half of September and early October 2017, but many people in Puerto Rico are ...
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Skechers has helped 583,000 pets in shelters in the U.S.,...
Skechers has helped 583,000 pets in shelters in the U.S., including saving the lives of around 241,000 animals, through its $3 million donation to Best Friends Animal Society, an American non-profit organization dedicated to ending the killing of dogs and cats in shelters. Best Friends has also used Skechers' contributions ...
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Inescop, the Spanish Technological Institute for Footwear and Related Industries,...
Inescop, the Spanish Technological Institute for Footwear and Related Industries, has announced a new research project to find safer and more sustainable materials for use in children's shoes. The financial support for the project, which amounts to €2 million, is provided by the Valencian Institute for Business Competitiveness (IVACE), with ...
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Melawear has started to sell what it claims to be...
Melawear has started to sell what it claims to be the first line of sneakers certified by Fairtrade Cotton and the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), after two years of research and development in collaboration with Indian producers, international laboratories and certifying agencies. Using a unique composition of organically produced ...
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Toms Shoes, the American brand famous for its policy of...
Toms Shoes, the American brand famous for its policy of giving away a free pair of shoes or helping someone in need of a prescription for his eyesight, for each pair of shoes or glasses sold, presented new figures at this month's Premium trade show in Berlin to highlight the ...
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Deichmann has launched a new charity project, offering its trainees...
Deichmann has launched a new charity project, offering its trainees the opportunity to help primary school pupils to learn to read and write. The trainees are exempt from work in order to attend the Dürer-School in Essen-Borbeck in the morning on two days of the week during the Easter and ...
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Two German companies, Soex and I:Collect, have announced the development...
Two German companies, Soex and I:Collect, have announced the development of a breakthrough recycling system for all types of footwear. Soex, which specializes in used textile trading and recycling, receives tens of thousands of used shoes every day. Around 83 percent of these shoes are still be in good condition ...
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The European Union (EU) has voted to clarify regulations on...
The European Union (EU) has voted to clarify regulations on nanomaterials, a move that is expected to reinforce the action against the presence of hazardous chemicals in clothing, textiles and footwear. At the Reach (Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) Committee meeting in Helsinki on April 26, ...
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Kyaia, the largest Portuguese footwear group and the parent company...
Kyaia, the largest Portuguese footwear group and the parent company of Foreva and Fly London, is supporting Satisfibre, a national project working on a bioengineered material that mimics the qualities of leather. Satisfibre is a spin-off of the Center for Biological Engineering at the Universidade do Minho, in northern Portugal. ...
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Kavat received its second EU Ecolabel for continued commitment to...
Kavat received its second EU Ecolabel for continued commitment to high quality and sustainable production, despite tougher requirements. In 2008, the Swedish company was recognized with the European award for a first model using eco-performance leather, a substrate free from 200 banned chemicals. Since 1992, the European Commission grants the ...
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Assomac, the Italian association of footwear manufacturers, has announced the...
Assomac, the Italian association of footwear manufacturers, has announced the launch of a new green label for shoes that the trade body is making available to its member companies. The announcement was made by Gabriella Marchioni Bocca, Assomac's president, at the opening event of the 2018 edition of Simac-Tanning Tech, ...
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Ricosta says it is using 100% recycled Sympatex membranes for...
Ricosta says it is using 100% recycled Sympatex membranes for the linings of its latest children's shoe collection
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Dune has joined Nike and Steiner Outdoor to donate overstocked...
Dune has joined Nike and Steiner Outdoor to donate overstocked shoes and boots to Goods For Good for refugee camps in Kurdistan and the Ukraine, and families in the Philippines. Goods For Good is a U.K.-based charity that sends goods donated by businesses and individuals in the U.K. to pre-identified, ...
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Kering has been recognized as the world's most sustainable textile,...
Kering has been recognized as the world's most sustainable textile, apparel and luxury goods corporation, according to the Corporate Knights' Global 100 index, which was unveiled at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 23. It is the third consecutive year that the luxury conglomerate has been included in ...
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Slowwalk, the specialist in vegan footwear, has announced the development...
Slowwalk, the specialist in vegan footwear, has announced the development of a line of Teemo Rinnova sneakers made with the husk of corn. The shoes of this capsule collection are said to be made with a new material that is 100 percent vegetal and organic, obtained from the non-edible part of ...
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The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) has selected ten...
The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA) has selected ten factories for their commitment to improving factory conditions and standards, which will be included in the list of “FDRA Recognized Responsible Footwear Manufacturers” for 2017. The ten factories include three former honorees - Remington Products Company (U.S.), Wenzhou Taiyangshen Shoe ...
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A Spanish footwear brand, Sixtyseven, has made a donation of...
A Spanish footwear brand, Sixtyseven, has made a donation of €5,087 to finance a study into the benefits of physical exercise to prevent breast cancer. The donation represented 5 percent of the proceeds from the sale of two models from the firm's autumn/winter 2017/18 collection.
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Assocalzaturifici, the Italian shoe industry association, has persuaded its members...
Assocalzaturifici, the Italian shoe industry association, has persuaded its members and a laboratory, Cimac, to collect 2,500 pairs of shoes that have been sold in Africa or through charity shops to help finance a primary school project in Malawi. Conducted in partnership with a non-profit organization, Humana People to People, ...
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A petition calling for improved conditions for workers and transparency...
A petition calling for improved conditions for workers and transparency in the global shoe and clothing industries has gathered 13,606 signatures. The petition, with the title “Tell us who made our shoes,” was delivered to the European Parliament on Nov. 20 by Change your Shoes, an NGO coalition supported by ...
