{
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
 "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "cite_as": "Nozzle4, https://nozzle4.com/data/",
 "note": "Compiled by Nozzle4 from the sources linked on each row. The facts belong to their sources; the compilation is licensed CC BY 4.0, so use it with a credit and a link.",
 "slug": "adidas",
 "name": "adidas",
 "status": "listed",
 "status_label": "Listed",
 "segment": "Automotive, consumer and medical buyers",
 "page": "https://nozzle4.com/companies/adidas/",
 "listing": {
  "exchange": "XETR",
  "ticker": "ADS",
  "tradingview_symbol": "XETR:ADS"
 },
 "headquarters": "Herzogenaurach, Germany",
 "founded": 1949,
 "ownership": "Listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ADS)",
 "technologies": [
  "Carbon DLS",
  "lattice midsoles"
 ],
 "description": "Turned 3D printing into a shoe line through Carbon: the 4D midsole is a printed lattice rather than moulded foam, and the line has grown from a 300-pair friends-and-family drop in 2017 to broader releases such as the Alphaedge 4D and the 4DFWD.",
 "last_checked": "2026-10-23",
 "timeline": [
  {
   "date": "Apr 2017",
   "title": "Unveils Futurecraft 4D, the first performance shoe with a midsole made by Carbon Digital Light Synthesis",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://www.carbon3d.com/news/press-releases/adidas-unveils-industrys-first-application-of-digital-light-synthesis-with-futurecraft-4d"
  },
  {
   "date": "Jan 2018",
   "title": "Executive board member Eric Liedtke joins Carbon board after adidas Hydra Ventures helped close its 200 million dollar Series D",
   "detail": "Futurecraft went on sale in New York at about 300 dollars a pair; Carbon said production would grow from 5,000 pairs.",
   "source": "https://techcrunch.com/?p=1588153"
  },
  {
   "date": "2018",
   "title": "Alphaedge 4D becomes the first widely available 4D model",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://www.adidas.com.my/en/blog/737899-from-futurecraft-to-4dfwd-and-beyond-the-history-of-adidas-4d"
  },
  {
   "date": "2021",
   "title": "Launches 4DFWD with a Carbon lattice midsole, the result of four years of work with Carbon",
   "detail": "adidas claims three times the forward motion of earlier 4D midsoles in mechanical testing.",
   "source": "https://www.tctmagazine.com/adidas-launches-4dfwd-shoe-carbon-3d-printed-midsole/"
  }
 ]
}