All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 73
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News briefsRab and Lowe Alpine continue to move towards FC-free collections
Rab and Lowe Alpine (owned by Equip Outdoor Technologies Ltd.) have pledged to eradicate “all unnecessary” fluorocarbons from their products by autumn/winter 2024. Some of the more technical styles from the AW22 collections that are currently introduced to retail partners are already free of fluorocarbon or feature FC-free DWRs. As ...
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ArticleRacoon Events CEO introduces Net Zero plan at COP26
At a panel discussion at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Raccoon Events Ltd’s CEO Mike Seaman introduced the company’s roadmap to reach Net Zero by 2025. The plan visible on the Raccoon website is set out in five areas, all of which will have quarterly and annual targets ...
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News briefsHoudini launches new circular softshell series made from Teijin Octa fabrics
Swedish brand Houdini has launched a new series of wind and water-resistant softshell jackets and pants for men and women called Pace, which is made in Portugal, utilizing Octa C9, a new lightweight softshell material made by Teijin in Japan. The Octa fiber technology is based on ...
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News briefsSchwan-Stabilo calls on employees worldwide to become socially involved through sport
The Schwan-Stabilo Group, which owns the brands Deuter, Maier Sports, Ortovox and Gonso, has called on all its employees worldwide to cover a distance of 60,000 km – the distance between all company locations added together, and a total of 1.5 times around the world – virtually together in sports. ...
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News briefsGerman retailer Bergzeit donates €15,000 from special sales to social projects
Following the recent adoption of its climate targets for the next few years, German retailer Bergzeit has held its yearly special sale of returned and sample goods in October 2021 at its store in Gmund, Germany. With the commercialization of otherwise unsellable merchandise, Bergzeit supports three social organizations in the ...
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News briefsEndura’s tree planting project passes two-million mark in Africa, plants new forest in Scotland
Claiming to be still ahead of target, Endura has just reported new numbers of its One Million Trees project. By now, there were two million trees planted in a degraded mangrove forest in Mozambique, which is providing employment for the local community and helps offset the company’s carbon footprint. Additionally, ...
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News briefsFirst Arc’teryx ReBird Service Center opens in New York
Arc’teryx has opened the first ReBird™ Service Center in its brand-new New York City store location on Broadway. As the brand’s sixth store in New York, the Broadway location is the first of its kind to offer Arc’teryx retail sales as well as free product evaluation, on-site care and training, ...
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News briefsBerghaus Adapts aims to make the outdoors more accessible to all
British outdoor brand Berghaus has announced details of a new initiative that supports the company’s vision that the outdoors should be accessible to all. Working closely with paraplegic Ed Jackson, a former professional rugby player who fractured multiple vertebrae in his spine in 2017, the brand has launched Berghaus Adapts ...
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ArticleCOP26: Fashion industry boosts climate ambitions with renewed charter
A group of companies from the broader fashion industry has released a new Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action with updated science-based emissions reduction targets at the Glasgow Climate Conference (COP26). The new commitment includes a decarbonization plan that is consistent with the Paris Agreement targets to limit global temperature ...
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ArticleGerman bicycle companies develop charter for a sustainable industry
For more than a year, a committee of six German bicycle companies developed an action plan for resource conservation, sustainability and climate protection around the products and services of the bicycle industry. At the end of October, 23 decision-makers adopted the “Bike Charta for Sustainable Business” at a meeting of ...
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News briefsGlobetrotter expands second-hand sales ahead of Black Friday, now also available online
German outdoor retail chain Globetrotter, part of Frilufts Retail Europe, a subsidiary of Fenix Outdoor International, is once again hosting its ”Greener Week” from Nov. 22-27. For the fourth year in a row, the outdoor retailer is thus offering a range of sustainable alternatives to Black Friday’s unsustainable low-price sales ...
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ArticleOn to make running shoes from carbon waste
Swiss sports brand On, following its IPO in New York in mid-September, has announced a shift away from petroleum-based resources with the development of a new foam material called CleanCloud™. CleanCloud is made from carbon emissions as a raw material. On is the first company in the footwear industry to ...
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News briefsKeen launches “You Buy, We Donate” for Cyber Week in partnership with EOCA
Keen will donate €5 (up to €10,000 total) from every purchase made on www.keenfootwear.com during Cyber Week (Nov. 19-29) to a European conservation organization working to improve the health of our planet. The initiative is being carried out with the support of Keen’s longtime partner, the European Outdoor Conservation Association ...
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News briefsNew life for old climbing ropes
With a creative upcycling concept, Newseed from Rosenheim, Germany, transforms discarded climbing ropes into lovingly designed accessories for climbing and everyday life. The production of the handcrafted one-of-a-kind items, including chalk bags, belts and shopping bags, supports social projects in Germany and involves local climbing communities as well as rope ...
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News briefsVF named one of the top female-friendly companies in the world
VF Corp. was ranked 12th out of 300 companies on Forbes’ list of “World’s Top Female Friendly Companies 2021,” a ranking compiled by Forbes and market research firm Statista Inc. For the list, 85,000 women in 40 countries were surveyed and asked to rate their employers on criteria such as ...
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News briefsPolartec uses peppermint oil as an eco-friendly odor inhibitor
As part of its growing EcoEngineering initiative, Polartec has announced a switch to peppermint for metal-free odor control across its line of functional fabrics, including Polartec® Power Dry®, Polartec® Power Grid™ and Polartec® Delta™. The bluesign-certified peppermint oil odor treatment – Polartec Fresh Face – is an easily renewable, highly ...
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News briefsPentland launches new sustainability strategy
Pentland Brands, owner of the Berghaus, ellesse, Canterbury, Speedo and Mitre brands, has unveiled its new positive business strategy, “100-1-0.” It sets out three major goals to be achieved by 2032, the year that marks the company’s 100th anniversary: to help 100 million consumers lead positive, active and sustainable lifestyles; ...
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ArticleSBTi launches new Net-Zero corporate standard
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has launched a new standard for companies to certify their net-zero targets. SBTi sees a lack in robust certification, while companies are currently self-defining net-zero targets without a credible and independent assessment of their ambition and integrity. The new SBTi Net-Zero ...
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News briefsHigg reports 70 percent growth in platform use and better assessment scores for users
In its 2021 impact report, technology platform Higg takes a look at its progress towards expanding into new industries and helping companies develop a holistic view of their environmental and social impact to decide smarter. Within the last two years, Higg started with tools to measure manufacturing ...
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News briefsLenzing gets confirmation of its fibers‘ biodegradability by marine institute
Source: Scripps Lenzing Group, the Austria-based provider of branded ingredients Tencel, Lenzing Ecovero and Veocel, has just received new scientific proof of its product’s biodegradability. Results of experiments conducted by the University of California’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) in San Diego published in October confirmed that ...
