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Sportswear Giants Adidas, Puma Consider Job Cuts Amidst Industry Challenges

by Destiny Eseaga
January 24, 2025
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Sportswear Giants Adidas, Puma Consider Job Cuts Amidst Industry Challenges
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Adidas and Puma, both German sportswear giants, have announced their intentions to reduce costs, which may include job cuts, in order to improve profits.

Adidas said it wanted to ensure “long-term success” and had “begun examining how we can adapt our business’s structures to the reality of our work”.

This could impact the number of positions at the group’s headquarters in Herzogenaurach, southern Germany, a spokesman told AFP on Thursday, without giving further details.

Changes would be carried out “with the greatest respect and care for employees”, he added.

German news outlet Manager Magazin said the plans could affect up to 500 employees and reflected CEO Bjorn Gulden’s desire to simplify Adidas.

The news comes as the group is seeking to put a difficult few years behind it following the furore surrounding musician and entrepreneur Kanye West, now known formally as Ye.

Adidas had designed Yeezy trainers in collaboration with West but broke off the partnership after his anti-Semitic comments sparked outrage, leading the firm to write off a portion of the stock and sell the rest at a discount.

Preliminary results released this week showed that Adidas’s operating profits jumped five-fold last year, after earnings took a hit in 2023 from the fallout from the West crisis.

But Gulden said Adidas still needed to do better, and the company is targeting profit margins of 10 percent up from 5.6 percent last year.

Puma, Adidas’s smaller rival, said Wednesday that it was also aiming to cut costs including through “personnel expenses” — suggesting job cuts could be on the table — as it released disappointing results.

Its shares were down as much as 18 percent on Thursday morning after net profit for last year fell to 282 million euros ($293 million) from 305 million the year before.

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    My name is Destiny Eseaga, a communication strategist, journalist, and researcher, deeply intrigued by the political economy of Nigeria and the broader world context. My passion lies in the world of finance, particularly, capital markets, investment banking, market intelligence, etc

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My name is Destiny Eseaga, a communication strategist, journalist, and researcher, deeply intrigued by the political economy of Nigeria and the broader world context. My passion lies in the world of finance, particularly, capital markets, investment banking, market intelligence, etc

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