Daniel Hanssler
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adidas Innovation Challenge: behind the scenes, but right on stage.

adidas Innovation Challenge: behind the scenes, but right on stage.

Have you ever dreamed of taking part in the Olympic Games? I certainly have. Imagine you would have the chance to compete with and against some of the world’s best athletes…

At the adidas Innovation Challenge I was one of four lucky adidas employees who were selected to get a glimpse behind the scenes, but also taking actively part in this event. It was awesome!

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Martin Gebhardt
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Happy Birthday Adi Dassler!

Happy Birthday Adi Dassler!

Last year we celebrated Adi Dassler’s birthday with cup-cakes at our headquarters in Herzogenaurach. Today I’d like to give you some insights into the life story of the man who gave adidas its name. By the way: Adi Dassler and cup-cakes…this is closer related to each other than you might think. Why?

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Jan Runau
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adidas Brand Book wins German PR Award

adidas Brand Book wins German PR Award

Over the past few months we have covered the creating progress of our adidas Brand Book here on our blog. In four different posts we talked about how a Brand Book can have an impact on employees’ loyalty, how challenging it was to put adidas’ history in one book, what the creative direction to explain adidas’ identity was and what the creation of the Brand Book was like. We are very proud to announce that our adidas Brand Book was recently awarded the prestigious PR award in the category Corporate Media for the first time. The DPRG (“German Public Relations Association”) and F.A.Z.-Institute rewarded the best companies, institutions, agencies and future talents in 21 categories. Looking back, the reason for writing down the adidas story is described as follows:

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Vicki Ng
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A sneak peek into the adidas Group’s international employee population (Part II of III)

A sneak peek into the adidas Group’s international employee population (Part II of III)

Part 1 of this 3-part series covered the diversity of our international employee population within the adidas Group.

The adidas Group’s International Mobility Team oversees such movement and provides the needed support to move our employees around the world. We are here to support our international employees on various mobility topics, such as international compensation & benefits, relocation support, immigration, cross-cultural training, tax and social security briefings, health & welfare, risk & security, etc.

In this second part of our mobility series we will focus on the specific needs of different family units and how we cater our mobility benefits to them. Let’s start with some basic stats.

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Soeren Schmidt
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Living IT Innovation

Living IT Innovation

Innovation is part of the adidas Group DNA and an important element of our IT function. Let me give you some insights into what it is like to head a hungry IT innovation team. When I started this job at the beginning of 2011, a dream came true. Does it now mean I can take all these cool technologies and turn them into exciting solutions for our great company? Yes, this is what it means, but it is only half of the story.

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