Jochen Zeitz
Jochen Zeitz
Born on April 6, 1963 in Mannheim, Germany, Jochen Zeitz is the Director and Chairman of the board’s sustainable development committee of Kering after having been the CEO of the Sport & Lifestyle division and Chief Sustainability Officerof Kering since 2010. Prior to this, Zeitz served 18 years as Chairman and CEO at Puma...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth6 April 1963
CountryGermany
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I picked up the phone and called Herbert Hainer, the CEO of Adidas, and said, 'Well, it's Peace Day coming up. I think it's about time after 60 years to end this feud. How about doing something together?'
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Being able to dedicate 100 per cent of my time to impacting more businesses without being operational, it just gives me a bigger platform.
In the long term, Greece is an important market for us.
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In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent.
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Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.
I'm building Segera to promote a different way of doing tourism.
I'm a virtual worker. I'm not tied to an office.
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If we bring together the right people, communities can flourish and wildlife can survive alongside them.
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If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.
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We're trying to find a tourism model that allows communities to thrive while business prospers.
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We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.
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Walking out into the bush still feels the same as when I first came to Kenya in 1989, on the day the Berlin Wall came down.
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We always try to reinterpret sport in an innovative, fashionable way, and when we do fashion, we're always trying to bring our sports heritage into the fashion world.
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When you are small, and you have to try and prove yourself, it is tough. When others are catching up and copy you, that's tough. We constantly need to change ourselves to stay ahead of the game.