In summer 2022, we collected discarded sportswear together with our partner clubs in Germany and Switzerland. In a pilot project, the textiles were shredded and processed into granulate, yarn and fabric. Using the thermo-mechanical process, we were able to produce our first jersey from recycled JAKO textiles.

Workshop at the JAKO Days
In October 2023, we presented this process to our sports retailers and exchanged ideas intensively. Together, we want to focus on recycling in the future and give our textiles a second life.

Since september 2023 we are part of the HRDD Academy pilot project from Fair Wear.

There, we deal intensively with topics such as corporate responsability, minmum living wages, gender equality and responsible purchasing practices. To build up our knowledge and implement guidelines we use training courses and learning modules.

You can find more information about the project on the Fair Wear website, here.

The aim of the fund is to promote sport, football and youth aid

Kick- off for the Rudi Sprügel Foundation: Named after the founder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of JAKO AG, the foundation primarily supports projects in sport, especially football and youth aid.

This includes the promotion of sport exercises and offers movement oriented youth (social) work, the promotion of athletes and the organisation of sports oriented events. The foundation also supports the training and further education of trainers and the establishment, construction, operation and expansion of sports facilities. It also cooperates with educational institutions and youth and youth social work organisations.

JAKO is supporting a research project with children suffering from cancer in Mainz and Heidelberg.

JAKO donated 100 jerseys to the FORTEe research project in Mainz and Heidelberg. Children suffering from cancer are taking part in a study that is researching the topic of sport and digital health in children and adolescents.
The participating patients receive a sports therapy programme that is individually adjusted to their state of health. What was missing, however, was suitable and standardised equipment for the kids. A situation that JAKO was happy to change: 100 jerseys made their way to the clinics in Mainz and Heidelberg and made the children's eyes light up.

The VfB Stuttgart, JAKO and SPSR.STUDIO are launching a collection whose profits will benefit aid projects.

Greece, Lebanon, Nepal, Ukraine. And Stuttgart. Five projects, one common language. VfB Stuttgart, JAKO and SPSR.STUDIO support the Stuttgart-based aid organisation STELP e.V. in helping children and young people in their home countries. At the heart of it all: Football. It provides joy of life, team spirit and distraction from a hard everyday life. Five tournaments organised by and with enthusiastic children and young people show that football, in all its diversity, can help people in need. A special collection has been created from these projects - and for them. The profits will benefit the aid projects of STELP e.V.

In order to protect natural resources, the supplier cartons in which the goods arrive at us are reused for shipping. This means that some of your orders will now be shipped in recycled packaging rather than new packaging. When these are used depends on the size of the order or the existing supplier cartons.

To let you know why the carton may no longer look brand new, an extra label is applied to it. It says "This carton has been reused".

In line with our motto "Our Team for a better World", this measure saves raw materials and reduces packaging waste.