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These Companies Are Manufacturing Products To Help Stop The Spread Of COVID-19
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on communities across the world, some international brands have announced plans to begin manufacturing products that will help prevent the infectious disease from spreading.
1. L’Oréal
L’Oréal leapt to humanity’s aid by also offering up its factories to produce hand sanitizer.
2. Zara
Inditex, the company that owns Zara, announced that it would be producing hospital gowns and masks for patients and medical workers alike.
3. Apple
Apple designed face shields and will ship out 1 million of them each additional week the virus spreads.
4. Uber
Uber is offering 10 million free rides and deliveries of food for frontline healthcare workers, seniors, and people in need.
5. H&M
The fashion retailer has offered to source masks, gowns, and gloves for hospitals in European countries amid shortages, and has donated 500,000 USD to the World Health Organization to help prevent the spread of this pandemic.
6. Mango
Mango has offered to distribute two million face masks among various Spanish hospitals using its own logistics system.
7. New Balance
New Balance made its first general-use face mask prototype and is now aiming to manufacture up to 100,000 units weekly at its factories in Maine and Massachusetts by mid-April.
8. Ford Motor Company
Ford is producing millions of face shields.
9 . Louis Vuitton
In order to provide protective gear to healthcare workers, Louis Vuitton has repurposed several of their ateliers across France to produce hundreds of thousands of non-surgical face masks. In partnership with the Mode Grande Ouest textile network, this initiative will donate the much-needed protective gear to frontline healthcare workers
10. Starbucks
Starbucks is giving a free tall hot or iced coffee to all health care workers through May 3 as well as police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other hospital or medical staffers.
11. Airbnb
Airbnb said it will also subsidize housing for 100,000 workers at the front lines of COVID-19 care.
1. L’Oréal
L’Oréal leapt to humanity’s aid by also offering up its factories to produce hand sanitizer.
2. Zara
Inditex fashion group, owner of Zara, announced it will make its factories and logistics teams available to the Spanish government in order to produce much needed hospital gowns and masks for patients and medical workers alike. https://t.co/kRKRvHolTw
— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) March 19, 2020
Inditex, the company that owns Zara, announced that it would be producing hospital gowns and masks for patients and medical workers alike.
3. Apple
Apple is dedicated to supporting the worldwide response to COVID-19. We’ve now sourced over 20M masks through our supply chain. Our design, engineering, operations and packaging teams are also working with suppliers to design, produce and ship face shields for medical workers. pic.twitter.com/3xRqNgMThX
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 5, 2020
Apple designed face shields and will ship out 1 million of them each additional week the virus spreads.
4. Uber
Uber is offering 10 million free rides and deliveries of food for frontline healthcare workers, seniors, and people in need.
5. H&M
The fashion retailer has offered to source masks, gowns, and gloves for hospitals in European countries amid shortages, and has donated 500,000 USD to the World Health Organization to help prevent the spread of this pandemic.
6. Mango
Mango has offered to distribute two million face masks among various Spanish hospitals using its own logistics system.
7. New Balance
New Balance made its first general-use face mask prototype and is now aiming to manufacture up to 100,000 units weekly at its factories in Maine and Massachusetts by mid-April.
8. Ford Motor Company
Two weeks of production = Over 1 million face shields delivered. #BuiltFordProud
— Ford Motor Company (@Ford) April 6, 2020
Thank you to the many #essentialworkers on the front lines. We hope these shields help keep you protected as you continue helping others in the fight against #COVID19. pic.twitter.com/nMBQEXcMQF
Ford is producing millions of face shields.
9 . Louis Vuitton
In order to provide protective gear to healthcare workers, Louis Vuitton has repurposed several of their ateliers across France to produce hundreds of thousands of non-surgical face masks. In partnership with the Mode Grande Ouest textile network, this initiative will donate the much-needed protective gear to frontline healthcare workers
10. Starbucks
Starbucks is giving a free tall hot or iced coffee to all health care workers through May 3 as well as police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other hospital or medical staffers.
11. Airbnb
Airbnb said it will also subsidize housing for 100,000 workers at the front lines of COVID-19 care.