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Berchmans

BY: Alejandro Quiroz, Tomas Obando and Federico

Montero

Sustainable development programs.

 1 Brand:
Adidas is a company that manufactures shoes and clothes mainly for
sports, they also are sponsors of many soccer teams and certainly every
sport in the world, day by day they launch new campaigns that tell us that
they care about the environment and that they worry about it and that is
in part true but they also daily work for the money, but I said it is in part
true and they explain that they care a lot about the environment in the
manufacturing process to be sustainable, so, concluding they mainly focus
on the environmental pillar, in which they develop in a good way.

Plans
From around 1998 adidas has developed many sustainability programs
taking advantage of their sponsors and publicity, year by year they
released many campaigns that guarantee the sustainability in their
company. Many campaigns or strategies such as: sport needs a space,
product sustainability is king, it is all about saving resources among
others. They guarantee sustainability by taking care of the resources
mainly and at the same time make their product less harmful to humans
and to the environment, taking care of the environment and society. In
this way they assure that the sustainability in this company never ends up,
furthermore, they also take care about their economy by reducing their
manufacturing product and by the way reducing their cost.

Sustainability pillars.
2 Social pillar:
Adidas workplace standards a code for employees based on labor and
human rights, for obligations and manufacturing agreements
Is the only company on sport gear industry to give an annual report
of sustainability progress and programs, because is important to the
consumer know the companys name
In 1998, we also adopted a comprehensive and detailed Restricted
Substances Policy for product materials, prohibiting the use of
chemicals considered as harmful or toxic. This was the first policy in
the industry that clearly indicated test and pre-treatment methods
for restricted substances.
Adidas for worldwide events Adidas offers not on a global factory, it
gives employee to local workers.
Adidas produced more than 200 houses for poor people in world.
Adidas moved its principal chain of factories to Indonesia in order to
give work to this poor country.
Gives to all its factory workers the proper rights of work, medical
service and more in order to ensure human rights.

Environmental pillar:
Chlorofluorocarbons are
banned by adidas on all their
production and manufacturing
process, with the other
components that damage
ozone layer, for future
environment problems
Was the first company on
clothes industry to ban
harmful components with environment and find new alternatives in
order to reuse and produce volatile organic compounds innovating in
various types of technologies?
 Their principal manufacturing facility in Germany was the first in
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world to receive environmental management system certification.
Being a green factory.
First company in our industry to introduce a ban the six more risky
and hazardous chemicals used in our manufacturing facilities or
production process.
Environmental, Health & Safety Guidelines, as well as the Guide to
Best Environmental Practice were launched by Adidas tag/label of
clothes which promote the correct management of disposal of same
product itself, and handling of disposal as daily stuff
The campaign of grow free pesticide and local cotton, because its
farming its environment nosive.
With virtualization process resources and money are saved by
reducing material waste, transportation and distribution costs and on
that way carbon emissions are reduced.
Reduce the quantity of resources used in a product, take more
advantage of resource and reduce waste at the same time they save
some money.
For worldwide events adidas produces only degradable and
sustainable products.
Adidas was one of the founders of discharge of hazardous chemicals
initiative which stands for the responsible use of chemicals
Adidas created the technology drydye which eliminates the need of
using water on production of gear
Launched a collection made 95% ocean reused plastic.
Dont buys adhesive products, just uses heat to paste the products.
Adidas with the UN Company has the policy of sport needs a space,
which closes over 50 spaces need sport officially, and for
contamination is really hard to find them now.

Economic pillar:
With virtualization process resources and money are saved by
reducing material waste, transportation and distribution costs and on
that way carbon emissions are reduced
 Reduce the quantity of resources used in a product, take more
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advantage of resource and reduce waste at the same time they save
some money
Have a sustainable model of leather supply by raising cows