Some background on Puma to counter the chav image accusation below...Ears are alight
05-09-2013, 01:48 PM
Puma is just as good as Adidas really, which it closely resembles as a company for good reason, since both brands were founded as a joint enterprise by the Dasler brothers in Bavaria during the Weimar Republic.
The brothers later fell out during World War 2, allegedly over politics, which was easy enough to do back then, and started up two separate sports shoe firms in the same town, only on opposite sides of the river that ran through it. There was a decades long them and us feud, eventually healed (suitably enough) with an armistice football match in the 1990s.
ADI DASler called his firm Adidas after himself. The other brother, Rudolf Dasler, wisely chose Puma rather than Rudolfdas and so there we are.
Puma is nowadays owned by PPR, which also owns luxury brands Gucci and Bottega Veneta, which is big news if you're into handbags (http://www.bottegaveneta.com/). So it's a decent brand staple.
Just so you know. :thumbup:
The brothers later fell out during World War 2, allegedly over politics, which was easy enough to do back then, and started up two separate sports shoe firms in the same town, only on opposite sides of the river that ran through it. There was a decades long them and us feud, eventually healed (suitably enough) with an armistice football match in the 1990s.
ADI DASler called his firm Adidas after himself. The other brother, Rudolf Dasler, wisely chose Puma rather than Rudolfdas and so there we are.
Puma is nowadays owned by PPR, which also owns luxury brands Gucci and Bottega Veneta, which is big news if you're into handbags (http://www.bottegaveneta.com/). So it's a decent brand staple.
Just so you know. :thumbup: