All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 23
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Kering is the first luxury group, and first French company,...
Kering is the first luxury group, and first French company, with certified science-based targets. The group has been approved by the Science Based Target (SBT) initiative as the first luxury group to create science-based goals for the reduction of its carbon footprint. The SBT initiative was formed by the Carbon ...
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Bernd Hummel, managing partner of Bernd Hummel Holding, the biggest...
Bernd Hummel, managing partner of Bernd Hummel Holding, the biggest licensee of the Kangaroos brand in Europe, has been honored with the Order of Merit of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, where the company is based. The prime minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer, underlined the company's economic, social and cultural ...
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CTCR (Centro Tecnologico del Calzado de la Rioja) has announced...
CTCR (Centro Tecnologico del Calzado de la Rioja) has announced the successful completion of a project to use recycled polyurethane (PU) foam materials to make new soles for footwear. The project, which started in 2013, has been carried out in cooperation with Valladolid-based Cartif, another Spanish research body. Garmaryga, a ...
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With effect from Jan. 1, 2017, Kering will introduce a...
With effect from Jan. 1, 2017, Kering will introduce a minimum length of time for maternity and adoption leave of 14 weeks on full pay, and a minimum of five days on full pay for paternity or partner leave, for any Kering employee with more than a year's seniority. The ...
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In cooperation with the Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschland (CJD), one of...
In cooperation with the Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschland (CJD), one of Germany's largest social and educational organizations, Deichmann is investing €200,000 in an educational project for the professional integration of refugees. Deichmann has financed projects for refugees since 2015 with donations of more than €1 million. The recently presented project, running ...
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Kering has been recognized as one of the world's top...
Kering has been recognized as one of the world's top 25 most diverse and inclusive publicly listed companies, according to the Thomson Reuters' Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Index. The French holding company reached the 22nd place out of 4,255 publicly traded companies, and is the highest ranking luxury company to ...
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The existence of fair labor conditions at the final assembly...
The existence of fair labor conditions at the final assembly site has become a new requirement to obtain the European Ecolabel for shoes, in addition to the origin of the materials, the lack of hazardous substances, reduced water consumption, durability and the packaging. The new criteria are valid for six ...
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Timberland is partnering with Pur Projet, a Paris-based organization which...
Timberland is partnering with Pur Projet, a Paris-based organization which designs and operates community ecosystems management projects, on a tree planting initiative for children. Through the “Buy One. Plant One” initiative, Timberland and Pur Projet will plant a tree for every pair of Timberland kids shoes sold. Every child will ...
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Step to Sustainability, the European Union's program to expand jobs...
Step to Sustainability, the European Union's program to expand jobs and training while developing environmentally sound and economically viable footwear industries in Europe, presented the findings of its “Green Shoes” project during the GDS show in Düsseldorf on July 28. Conference participants, including dozens of industry experts from several countries, ...
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Peta Germany, the animal rights organization whose headquarters are in...
Peta Germany, the animal rights organization whose headquarters are in Norfolk, U.S., accused Gabor in its current campaign of using leather from India for its shoe production, causing animal suffering. Gabor rejects the accusation as misleading, causing harm to its reputation. In an online petition, Peta writes that Gabor is ...
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Ten Points has increased its collection of shoe models with...
Ten Points has increased its collection of shoe models with chrome-free leather, which are placed in a higher price segment than the rest of the collection. While 30 percent of the Swedish brand's autumn/winter 2016/17 collection was made with chrome-free leather, about 50 percent of the current spring/summer 2017 collection ...
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Timberland, a brand of VF Corp., has announced a program...
Timberland, a brand of VF Corp., has announced a program to restore and create green spaces in five U.S. cities by 2020. Each year for the next five years, the brand will choose a different city with a Timberland store, beginning with New York City, and will match its retail ...
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Global Destination for Shoes & Accessories (GDS) in Düsseldorf will...
Global Destination for Shoes & Accessories (GDS) in Düsseldorf will be hosting an international footwear workshop on sustainability entitled “Green Shoes for a Sustainable Life.” The workshop will be held on July 28. The European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC), together with the other European partners of the “Step ...
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Pikolinos has launched a footwear and handbag collection inspired by...
Pikolinos has launched a footwear and handbag collection inspired by social responsibility. The products in the new Pikolinos Solidarity collection are the result of the collaboration of the Pikolinos team, which provides its resources and experience, with the young people of the Defora Foundation, who contribute their work and willingness ...
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Calzados Zels has won the prize for best eco-design project...
Calzados Zels has won the prize for best eco-design project in the 2016 contest run by the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Madrid. The footwear company, based in the Spanish region of La Rioja, won for its Fabiolas No Trace sandals, which the brand developed with CTCR, the footwear ...
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The phase that contributes most to the shoe's carbon footprint...
The phase that contributes most to the shoe's carbon footprint is the manufacture of the components. According to the first results of the European project CO2Shoe, funded by the European Commission, this phase represents 58 percent of the overall carbon footprint of a shoe, followed by packaging manufacture with 16 ...
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The Kering group, parent company of Puma, Gucci and many...
The Kering group, parent company of Puma, Gucci and many other brands has joined the Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) Foundation, which aims to eliminate such substances from textile and footwear products by 2020. Other current members are Adidas, C&A, Esprit, G-Star Raw, H&M, Inditex, Jack Wolfskin, Levi's, Li-Ning, ...
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Prada has announced it will issue its first sustainability report...
Prada has announced it will issue its first sustainability report next year. Meanwhile, the luxury group has launched a corporate social responsibility (CSR) website at http://csr.pradagroup.com.
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Geox and Gabor Shoes have reacted to a documentary on...
Geox and Gabor Shoes have reacted to a documentary on Plusminus, a program on the ARD television network, that showed very poor environmental and labor conditions at an Indian tannery, Skywalk Shoe Industries & Arasababu Associates at Ranipet, near Chennai. Both brands said that the tannery was not among their ...
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Kering and BSR (Business for Social Responsibility), a global non-profit...
Kering and BSR (Business for Social Responsibility), a global non-profit business network, have released a new report on the risks and opportunities posed by climate change for the luxury fashion industry. The report, entitled “Climate change: implications and strategies for the luxury fashion sector,” looks at carbon emissions from the ...
