POLOLO Press Review:
Nürnberger Nachrichten 12.02.2011
Franziska Kuntze, who is also a member of the board of the Internationaler Verband für Naturtextilien (International Association of the Natural Textile Industry) (IVN) will also report at BioFach on "Eco-leather and how to make it green" on 18 February between 12:00 and 14:00. (download [PDF])
Nürnberger Nachrichten 25.09.2010
Dieter Janecek, chair of the Bavarian Greens, and Vice-Landrat Manfred Bachmayer expressed enthusiasm for the company strategy of the shoe manufacturer POLOLO based in Oberreichenbach.
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23 February 2010: POLOLO is the winner of the 2009 Founders' Prize! [...] [...] On 23 February 2010, the New Business Founder Prize was presented by the Minister of Trade and Industry Rainer Brüderle [...]. This honour, awarded for the last ten years by Superillu and the KfW banking group, acknowledges courage and creativity [...] 392 candidates were competing. Watch a video of the four winners! (Link: www.superillu.de / download [PDF])
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Berliner Tagesspiegel 9 September 2009
Heik Afheldt meets Franziska Kuntze: [...] "It's a shame that my feet are no longer small enough to fit in these really cute, soft leather children's shoes! Otherwise, cats, ducks or WWF pandas could run about with me and tell the interesting story of the successful founding of a company. (download [PDF])
Petra, August 2009
"With their POLOLO brand, the two women advanced into major entrepreneuses – because they surefootedly discovered a market niche. And because they know exactly what their target audience needs. After all, they were their first customers."
Stiftung Warentest, February 2008, issue 2/2008
[…] Stiftung Warentest examined 79 leather products carefully. Stiftung Warentest’s test results: Each fourth child’s shoe was loaded with chromate. […] The more chromate the leather contains, the larger the allergy risk […] an alternative can be vegetably tanned leather. Just two of the children’s shoes in our test are provided by the manufacturers with a reference along these lines: POLOLO and id natur […]
Berliner Zeitung, No. 39, January 15th, 2008
Learn to Walk Naturally
[…] The shoe designer Verena Carney and the business administrator Franziska Kuntze have been mothers for five years […]. They were looking for soft leather moccasins that are beautiful and at the same time healthy and ecologically acceptable. In vain. Together […] they created their own collection of soft leather stockings under the name Pololo. […]
Natürlich Natur, January 2008 „Best Quality and Exciting Design“
[…] The upcoming collection will be presented in spring at the German child fashion and natural textile goods fairs in Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt. In addition, we’ll see the POLOLO team at European trade shows at Kleine Fabriek in Amsterdam, or at the CIFF in Copenhagen and the Natural Products show in London. And in 2008, POLOLO is celebrating its fifth anniversary. The young company is preparing to surprise POLOLO fans with many new models and interesting co-operations. […]
Schuhkurier November 2007 „Firm Friends for the Feet “
Lifestyle Objects for the Feet
[…] Just as gladly ‚the large' customers slip into the new Pantalos - a new interpretation of the slipper in fresh colors. „The demand within the adult range is especially great in France and Belgium “, reports the managing director. The happily colorful, pliant Pololos obviously appeal to the Francophone sense of fashion. […]
Natürlich Natur April 2007 „Winners and Jury of„ Vision20“
POLOLO wins Vision20’s 2. Place
[…] for the exhibition, the classical heel-free cut of the slipper was interpreted anew with inserts of recycled magazine pages. These designs thereby did away with the stodgy house-slipper image and truly represented a metamorphosis to a cult and lifestyle object.
Handelsblatt 12.März 2007, „Start up: Sewing in Deutschland“
New ideas, new business models, new enterprises: Pololo, Berlin
[…] The large sports article manufacturers Adidas and Puma relocated their production long ago, from Germany to low-wage locations. Leaving behind many well-trained seamstresses and numerous empty buildings in the central Franconian region of Herzogenaurach. Creative young enterprises put this potential to work: Pololo […]
Schrot + Korn, 6/2006, “Minis on Big Soles - Eco Shoes instead of Puma”
[…] From Herzogenaurach, known for the companies Adidas and Puma, hails a new company with a lot of momentum. With ecologically safe children’s shoes and slippers, which are nice and above all colorful. […]
ELTERN 3/2005, February 2005, “light shoes for the first steps”
They do not only look super-comfortable, they are. This comes as no surprise: Pololo shoes are designed and marketed by two mothers - and their children test all models. The shoes are made from vegetably tanned Nappa leather, dyed and waterproofed with environmentally friendly materials and even are biodegradable. They are so light that learn-to-walk toddlers hardly feel them and that they can keep that “barefoot feeling.” […]
Öko Test, January 2005, “Test POLOLO Kitty blue”
[…] Whatever you stick your naked feet into, pollutants should not be part of it. Which is what our laboratory results confirm for the Pololo shoes Kitty in blue in size 18/19. They are, as the manufacturer promises, vegetably tanned. Therefore no unsafe quantities of chrome were provable. […] Overall rating: „good “
greenpeace.de, December 16th, 2004, „Greenpeace label for Pololo Learn-to-Walk Shoe“
[…] On Thursday, Greenpeace awarded the Greenpeace product label to the learn-to-walk shoe Wal Moby, made by the manufacturer Pololo. The children’s shoe by the Berlin company is produced with particular attention to ecological and social concerns. The environmental organization assigns this label of quality only to products that fulfill the highest standards of environmental and health safety. […] Harald Garzke, representative of Greenpeace Media, explains: With an inspection of the workshop and the tannery, we reassured ourselves of the fact that the work of Pololo corresponds to our high ecological and social requirements for the assignment of the Greenpeace label. In addition, the purchase of a Wal Moby supports environmental action directly: 4.5 per cent of the selling price goes to Greenpeace.
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