PUMAVision provides our company, our employees, and all of our stakeholders with the 4Keys—Fair, Honest, Positive, and Creative. These 4Keys act as a compass that always keeps us true to our vision of a better world—PUMAVision—guiding all of our decisions, actions, processes and practices.

We at PUMA use the 4Keys as a tool, which means always doing our best to be Fair, Honest, Positive and Creative in everything we do. These 4Keys represent, in the broadest possible sense, how PUMAVision works. We measure our thinking, our decisions, our actions, and our processes against these values by asking ourselves if what we are doing is Fair, Honest, Positive and Creative. Making PUMAVision work for us and for the world in which we operate—across our workplaces in so many countries—means using the 4Keys everyday and in all that we do. But what do these words really mean?

FAIR

At PUMA, fair means balanced. It means we see both sides, and resist the pressures that can push us into extreme ways of thinking, working or living. It also means we are open to all, and refuse to discriminate against people or make judgments based on gender, race, religion, political persuasion, sexual preference, or way of life. And being fair means listening as much as we talk, and giving back as much as we take.

HONEST

Honest means sincere. It means not faking it, walking the walk as much as we talk the talk. It means putting our money, our time and our energy where our mouth is. And being honest means admitting our mistakes, and owning up to our responsibilities—something that applies to companies as much as it does to individuals.

POSITIVE

Positive means constructive. It means building things—and people—up, not breaking them down. It means suggesting rather than criticizing, and working for solutions rather than just complaining. It means supporting others when they try, encouraging them when they fail, and celebrating with them when they succeed. It means “we can” more often than “we can’t.”

CREATIVE

Creative means imaginative. It means thinking outside the box, or thinking outside the shoebox, as the case may be. Being creative means finding a way around a problem, rather than stopping when the walls are too high. It means looking at new ways, listening to new ideas and trying new strategies. It means striving for the most innovative solution because just being good enough is never good enough. Being creative means having dreams, and then making those dreams real things, in our individual worlds, in the PUMA world, in the real world.

Greg David Roberts, activist and author of the book Shantaram, speaks about how he worked with PUMAVision to define the 4Keys:

The 4Keys apply as much to the decisions and actions of the CEO as they do to our retail team members who interact with our customers. In fact, it applies to everyone in our company. Eventually, PUMAVision and its guiding compass of the 4Keys will become an instinctive way of thinking for PUMA as we work towards making our contribution towards a better world.