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PPR Plans Green Accounting Statements

The French firm, which owns a range of luxury and sporting brands including Stella McCartney, Gucci and PUMA, is to create a group-wide environmental profit and loss statement. PUMA became the first of PPR’s brands to undertake the sustainability initiative, with all remaining brands to be covered by 2015.

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