on is a rapidly growing sports company based in zurich, switzerland, yokohama, japan and portland, oregon that develops and markets a ground-breaking running shoe technology and has a simple mission: elevating running to a fun sport. on has been awarded the gold award for the best performance shoe 2013 at the international ispo sports fair and continues to win technology and design prizes all over the globe. on’s cloudtec® system has received worldwide patents and the young company can look back at the probably fastest launch of a new running brand: five years after launch, on is already available at over 1800 running specialists in 30 countries across europe, asia-pacific and americas. on has been featured on bloomberg and fox business news, in forbes, wall street journal, espn magazine, the independent, the guardian, wallpaper magazine, monocle, wired, gq, men’s health, runner’s world and many others. more than 80 elite athletes run the on, amongst them olympic gold medallist nicola