{"id":1758139,"date":"2022-12-01T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758139"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:49:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:49:25","slug":"adidas-exec-says-he-promoted-black-manager-as-a-contribution-to-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adidas-exec-says-he-promoted-black-manager-as-a-contribution-to-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Adidas Exec. Says He Promoted Black Manager as a \u201cContribution to Diversity\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fadidas-exec-says-he-promoted-black-manager-as-a-contribution-to-diversity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758139&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">According to reports, a 30-year executive at sportswear giant Adidas admitted that he promoted a black employee to a managerial position as a \u201ccontribution to diversity,\u201d a claim that launched an investigation into his actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Employees cried foul after Roland Auschel, the head of sales and a 30-year Adidas executive, reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/7b852f73-e463-4458-809a-c1ba80607295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> them during a meeting that he gave the black employee favor because of his skin color, the <i>Financial Times<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/id\/467623368\/photo\/roland-auschel-executive-board-member-of-global-sales-adidas-group-speaks-to-investors-on.jpg?s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;k=20&#038;c=bmcvTVIZLvcRNs5bTFNrjbumVJ7f0XW8ho53-llnZls=\" alt=\"Roland Auschel Executive Board Member of Global Sales adidas Group speaks to investors on March 26, 2015 in Herzogenaurach, Germany.\" width=\"612\" height=\"497\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Roland Auschel, Executive Board Member of Global Sales Adidas Group, speaks to investors on March 26, 2015, in Herzogenaurach, Germany. (Adam Pretty\/Getty Images for Adidas)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The \u201ccompletely inappropriate\u201d comment spurred Adidas to launch a two-year investigation into Auschel\u2019s actions at the company conducted by an outside law firm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The results of the investigation determined that \u201cThere have been no further indications of possible misconduct\u201d since he made the inappropriate promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Adidas added that the investigation \u201crevealed a training need for the executive in question in the areas of communication and diversity, equity and inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the determination, Auschel reportedly underwent \u201cseveral months\u201d of training in 2021. The errant exec did not lose any pay or benefits, <i>FT<\/i> found.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/id\/77908497\/photo\/ceo-of-adidas-europe-roland-auschel-hands-over-the-new-shirt-to-german-head-coach-jochim-loew.jpg?s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;k=20&#038;c=SLzK-9JKPZMiHAlbkeTJA4Q67hE5OTpHvg_EFyEgUt8=\" alt=\"Of adidas Europe Roland Auschel hands over the new shirt to German head coach Jochim Loew of the German national football team during a presentation...\" width=\"612\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>CEO of Adidas Europe Roland Auschel hands over the new shirt to German head coach Jochim Loew (R) of the German national football team during a presentation of the Euro2008 Shirt at the Carvallo theater on November 14, 2007, in Hanover, Germany. (Friedemann Vogel\/Bongarts\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Indeed, Adidas extended Auschel\u2019s contract this year and handed him a fat 26 percent raise to his bonus pay. As a result, he will now make close to $4 million a year, the paper noted.<\/p>\n<p>Adidas has been in the news recently for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/10\/25\/adidas-terminates-partnership-with-kanye-west-following-his-antisemitic-rants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ending<\/a> its association with rapper Kanye West who has come under fire over multiple instances of seeming antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>Since dumping its partnership with West, several Adidas employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/11\/27\/adidas-investigating-misconduct-allegations-against-kanye-west-after-staffers-accuse-him-of-watching-porn-showing-personal-sex-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> the rapper of showing them pornographic images during a meeting.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a>, or Truth Social <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@WarnerToddHuston\">@WarnerToddHuston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, a 30-year executive at sportswear giant Adidas admitted that he promoted a black employee to a managerial position as a \u201ccontribution to diversity,\u201d a claim that launched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1758142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1758142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}