On’s 2025 Impact Progress Report: On Shares Lessons in Impact from its 15-Year Journey

The report shares key wins while leaning into the brand’s toughest challenges — minimizing its environmental impact in harmony with rapid growth, scaling circularity, and advancing living wages and social conditions in its supply chain to strive toward leaving a better footprint behind.

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND –  The Swiss premium sportswear brand On has released its 2025 Impact Progress Report (28th April 2026), using the theme of its 15th anniversary to evaluate its mission and share insights for its next chapter. This report outlines On’s strategic focus: scaling with impact in mind across three key areas — Decarbonization, Circularity, and Social Impact.

To provide a comprehensive view of this journey, the report is divided into two parts: a storytelling section reflecting on 15 years of innovation, and a data-focused section prepared in accordance with the Swiss Code of Obligations that also reflects its progress toward future reporting requirements of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).

Decarbonisation: Addressing Growth vs. Intensity

With product creation representing roughly two-thirds of On’s emissions, the brand is tackling its carbon emissions on three fronts: empowering creation teams with real-time data, innovating lower-impact materials, and collaborating with its suppliers on renewable energy adoption.

A significant milestone was reached in material innovation in footwear: On has surpassed its 2027 target of using 20% recycled or renewable materials in midsole compounds, reaching 23% across all styles in 2025.

“While our rapid global expansion has led to an increase in absolute emissions, we have reduced our Scope 3 physical intensity by 2% in comparison to last year for every unit produced,” said Begüm Kürkçü, Senior Director of Sustainability at On. “Our focus is now on accelerating renewable energy adoption across our Tier 1 and 2 supply chain to pick up the pace we need to achieve our 2030 science based target.”

Circularity: Taking the Next Step

On is utilizing its 15 years of design experience to rethink materials and services. With the launch of the Cloudrise Cyclon 1.1, the brand has proven that the end of one shoe’s life can provide the raw material for another’s high-tech components. By transitioning the Cyclon subscription service to a brand-wide resale-donation-recycling ecosystem in 2026, the brand now aims to take responsibility for every product it sells beyond a specific collection.

Furthermore, the brand has investigated why products fail to stay in circulation. The insights have been translated into concrete guidelines that will support teams in designing with a clear set of circularity criteria: durability, repairability, recyclability and manufacturing efficiency.

Social and Community Impact: Scaling Standards

As the brand expands, On aims to ensure its social standards scale in tandem. This includes a commitment to advancing human rights and promoting fair labor standards across its global supply chain.

“We are nearing our goal of a 100% living wage across Tier 1 factories, with 80.9% of our partners already meeting global benchmarks” Kürkçü continued. “While we have extended our target to 2026 to ensure full coverage across all T1 partners, living wage compliance remains a core standard for doing business with us.”

Beyond the supply chain, On’s Community Impact initiatives reached over 195,000 members and supported 100 organizations globally in 2025, continuing the brand’s mission to move communities forward.

The full 2025 Impact Progress Report is available here.

Check out the On RIA Foundation Member profile here  . 

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