Sustainable Business

SB June 2013

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Innovation Adidas 1/4 Creating space for a Better Place at Adidas Sportswear giant Adidas is taking great strides in its green ambition to rethink product design and manufacture and challenge itself through innovation, as Maxine Perella finds out. Think of any major active lifestyle brand, and you tend to think performance. How a product performs, whether it's a trainer or running vest, is critical – that ability to engineer in speed, durability, comfort and functionality. If you throw into that mix sustainability metrics around material optimisation and lifecycle impact, it becomes a heady combination. It also becomes a race towards constant innovation. One brand accelerating the agenda on this front is Adidas, one of the world's leading sportswear manufacturers. Through its Better Place programme,

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