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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 />
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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.