The town of Herzogenaurach was divided on the issue, leading to the nickname "the town of bent necks"-people looked down to see which shoes strangers wore. Puma and Adidas entered a fierce and bitter rivalry after the split. A few months later, Rudolf's company changed its name to Puma Schuhfabrik Rudolf Dassler. Rudolf created a new firm that he called "Ruda", from "Ru" in Rudolf and "Da" in Dassler. Adolf started his own company using a name he formed using his nickname-Adi-and the first three letters of his last name-Das-to establish Adidas. Rudolf moved to the other side of the Aurach River to start his own company. Split and creation of Puma Īfter increasingly different views of how to run the business, the brothers split the business in 1948. When Rudolf was later picked up by American soldiers and accused of being a member of the Waffen SS, he was convinced that his brother had turned him in. "Here are the bloody bastards again," Adi remarked, apparently referring to the Allied war planes, but Rudolf, due to his apparent insecurity, was convinced his brother meant him and his family. Adi and his wife climbed into a bomb shelter that Rudolf and his family were already in. A growing rift between the brothers reached a breaking point during a 1943 Allied bomb attack. īoth brothers joined the Nazi Party, but Rudolf was a keen Nazi, who applied to join, and was accepted into the Gestapo they produced boots for the Wehrmacht. Business boomed the Dasslers were selling 200,000 pairs of shoes annually before World War II. The brothers drove from Bavaria to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with a suitcase full of spikes and persuaded United States sprinter Jesse Owens to use them, the first sponsorship for an African American. In 1927, they moved into a separate building. At the time, electricity supplies in the town were unreliable, and the brothers sometimes had to use pedal power from a stationary bicycle to run their equipment. The pair started their venture in their mother's laundry. They named the new business "Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik" ( Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory) which was the only business at the time that manufactured sports shoes. In 1924, Rudolf and his younger brother, Adolf, nicknamed "Adi", founded a shoe factory. When he returned from fighting in World War I, Rudolf was trained as a salesman at a porcelain factory, and later in a leather trading business in Nuremberg. After leaving school, their son, Rudolf Dassler, joined his father at the shoe factory. History Background Ĭhristoph von Wilhelm Dassler was a worker in a shoe factory, while his wife Pauline ran a small laundry in the Franconian town of Herzogenaurach, 20 km (12.4 mi) from the city of Nuremberg. Puma's shoe and clothing designs feature the Puma logo and the distinctive "Formstrip" which was introduced in 1958. Puma's earliest logo consisted of a square and beast jumping through a D, which was registered, along with the company's name, in 1948. The relationship between the two brothers deteriorated until they agreed to split in 1948, forming two separate entities, Adidas and Puma.įollowing the split, Rudolf originally registered the newly established company as Ruda (derived from Rudolf Dassler, as Adidas was based on Adi Dassler), but later changed the name to Puma. In 1924, Rudolf and his brother Adolf "Adi" Dassler had jointly formed the company Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik ('Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory'). The company was founded in 1948 by Rudolf Dassler (1898–1974). Puma is the third largest sportswear manufacturer in the world. “They are going to help us deliver performance, not just by enabling our drivers and crew to train and compete with the latest gear, tailored to their needs, but also by pushing their research and development efforts to provide ever better equipment.Puma SE, branded as PUMA, is a German multinational corporation that designs and manufactures athletic and casual footwear, apparel and accessories, which is headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany. Like our team, their brand has a long and proud history in sports and has become synonymous with quality and innovation,” said Frédéric Vasseur, Team Principal Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN. ![]() “We welcome PUMA to the Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN family with open arms. ![]() To complete the full package, PUMA will provide Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN with footwear: the team will wear the brand’s sneakers trackside as part of their travel gear, as they move around the world during the 2022 season. In addition to racewear tailored to the driver’s needs in the cockpit, PUMA will also make sure the Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN crew operates at the highest level both on the track and while preparing for the race weekend, supporting the team with the latest training gear.
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