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COMPANIES | 10/11/2021

BEIRA RIO of Brazil set a date for sustainability

​In a meeting with its suppliers, it defined that in 2025 its production must be 100% sustainable.


BEIRA RIO. Industrial plant in Novo Hamburgo/RS.

One of the largest footwear industries in Brazil, BEIRA RIO, with an annual production of 25 million pairs, and more than 500 suppliers of components and supplies, redoubled its commitment to create a sustainable production chain.

Already at the beginning of October 2021, the company received the maximum Diamond certification from the Sustainable Origin Program, the only one for the footwear chain.

In November, it brought together more than 50 of its main suppliers and requested that half of them comply with the Sustainability Program by 2023, and the rest by 2025. Thus, from that year, BEIRA RIO will achieve that its productions are 100% sustainable.

One of the entities that created Sustainable Origin, together with the Brazilian Association of Footwear Industries -ABICALÇADOS- is the Brazilian Association of Companies of Components for Leather, Footwear and Manufactures -ASSINTECAL- which was invited to give the specific guidelines for certification of suppliers of BEIRA RIO.

On that occasion, the entity's Relationship and Marketing manager, Aline Santos, highlighted the importance of sustainability not only in the environmental dimension, but also social, economic and cultural. “More and more the consumer, Brazilian and global, is looking for products from sustainable companies. And the fact is reflected throughout the chain. Today, BEIRA RIO's decision is not isolated, but rather meets a desire of society”, she said.

Source: ABICALÇADOS/Brazil


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