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Puma SE is a German multinational corporation who design and manufacture athletic and casual footwear, apparel, and accessories, headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany. Puma is the third largest sportswear manufacturer in the world. [8] The company was founded in 1948 by Rudolf Dassler (1898–1974).
Rudolf "Rudi" Dassler (26 March 1898 – 27 October 1974) was a German cobbler, inventor, member of the Nazi Party, businessman and founder of the sportswear company Puma. He was the older brother of Adidas founder, Adolf "Adi" Dassler .
The Dassler brothers feud was a conflict between two brothers and their respective shoe manufacturers, Adolf ("Adi") and Rudolf ("Rudi") Dassler, in the latter half of the 20th century.
Four years later, at the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1500 metres runner Josy Barthel of Luxembourg won Puma's first Olympic gold in Helsinki, Finland. [23] At the 1960 Summer Olympics, Puma paid German sprinter Armin Hary to wear Pumas in the 100 meter sprint final. Hary had worn Adidas before and asked Adolf for payment, but Adidas rejected this ...
Puma (/ ˈ p j uː m ə / or / ˈ p uː m ə /) is a genus in the family Felidae whose only extant species is the cougar (also known as the puma, mountain lion, and panther, [2] among other names), and may also include several poorly known Old World fossil representatives (for example, Puma pardoides, or Owen's panther, a large, cougar-like cat of Eurasia's Pliocene).
Puma lost its most prominent soccer sponsorship deal, with Italy, in 2022 to rival sportswear brand Adidas. The company’s statement added that new sponsorship deals with two national teams ...
Mac OS X Puma or Mac OS X 10.1, an operating system; Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly, an industrial robot arm; Protected User Mode Audio (PUMA), a subset of Protected Media Path, a DRM technology; p53 upregulated modulator of apoptosis (PUMA), a pro-apoptotic protein; Paediatric-use marketing authorisation (PUMA), by the European ...
Kevin Plank, founder of Under Armour, in 2018. Under Armour was founded on September 25, 1996, by Kevin Plank, a then-24 year old former special teams captain of the University of Maryland football team.