History
New Balance HQ
Massachusetts
Name the first area of existing or emerging issues with high potential to affect New Balance
Human and labour rights issues in the supply chain
How many internal and external stakeholders were interviewed?
29
New Balance wasn't started as a footwear company, in fact, it first sold arch supports.
True
Founding Father
William J Riley
Name the second area of existing or emerging issues with high potential to affect New Balance
Increasing demands for transperancy
Name the 4 key categories of the New Balance Assessment?
Overall governance
Community support
Operations
Products and services
The name "New Balance" actually comes from founder William Riley observing goats in his backyard, and how a three-toed foot best supported a body.
FALSE, observing chickens.
1772 purchase price by James Davis
$100,000
Name the final two areas of existing or emerging issues with high potential to affect New Balance
How much recycled material did New balance use in 2008?
20%
New Balance is the last major American athletic footwear company that still makes its sneakers in America, producing roughly 20 percent of its pairs in New England.
TRUE
New Balance World Wide Sales Growth in 1991
$210 Million
European Union proposal imposing greater responsibility on companies in 2006
REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical substances
New balance was the last company to eliminate PVCs from all footwear.
FALSE
Are goats three-toed?
They have a cloven hoof, cleft hoof, divided hoof or split hoof is a hoof split into two toes.