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p : 45 | c : 3 <strong>PUMA</strong>.SAfe<br />

puma ends fairTrade fooTBall<br />

producTion and sTarTs<br />

fairTrade apparel range<br />

In our Sustainability Report 2007/2008 we<br />

had proudly announced the introduction of<br />

a <strong>PUMA</strong> Fairtrade football. What started as<br />

a joint project with the Bavarian Ministry for<br />

Education and the German non-governmental<br />

organizations Missio and One World Network<br />

Bavaria, led to the production and sale<br />

of approximately 10,000 <strong>PUMA</strong> Fairtrade<br />

footballs over the past four years.<br />

However, an analysis of the football’s sales<br />

performance along the way demonstrates<br />

that we were not successful in introducing<br />

the Fairtrade concept to the football market.<br />

we identified several internal and external<br />

reasons:<br />

> The majority of football production was<br />

moved to automated technology and China<br />

as sourcing country. This limited our options<br />

for Fairtrade certification, which typically<br />

applies to hand-stitched balls and excludes<br />

China.<br />

> Contractual restrictions disallowed a<br />

combination of a FIFA-approved logo with a<br />

Fairtrade logo. Consequently, we could not<br />

offer any <strong>PUMA</strong> top performance Fairtrade<br />

balls.<br />

<strong>PUMA</strong> BUSineSS And SUStAinABility RePoRt 2012<br />

> A Fairtrade premium as well as certification<br />

and license fees made the Fairtrade<br />

football more expensive than non-Fairtrade<br />

ones.<br />

There was low demand from <strong>PUMA</strong> Retail<br />

and wholesalers as stores had experienced<br />

low interest from consumers.<br />

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At <strong>PUMA</strong>, we are still committed to the concept<br />

of Fairtrade. In light of the minor success<br />

of our Fairtrade football, we introduced<br />

Fairtrade cotton certified apparel products<br />

within our <strong>PUMA</strong> Wilderness Range.<br />

Since the launch in mid-2012, we sold more<br />

Fairtrade apparel items by the end of 2012<br />

than footballs within the past four years.<br />

2009 2010 2011<br />

2012<br />

Figure 7: <strong>PUMA</strong> Fairtrade products sold per year<br />

The wilderness fairTrade<br />

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Despite the limitation that cotton items only<br />

can be Fairtrade certified, we hope we<br />

will be able to expand our sales of <strong>PUMA</strong><br />

Fairtrade certified apparel products over the<br />

next years, as part of our S-Index targets.

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