All Action Sports articles – Page 16
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Dakine has announced the launch of its first-ever surf apparel...
Dakine has announced the launch of its first-ever surf apparel collection for spring 2015. The 35-year-old American outdoor brand is known for its backpacks, bags, gloves and accessories for surf, skate, snowboard, ski, mountain bike, windsurf and kite. The new line of surf apparel focuses on men's board shorts and ...
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Brunotti Sportswear is sponsoring Dorian van Rijsselberghe, a Dutch windsurfing...
Brunotti Sportswear is sponsoring Dorian van Rijsselberghe, a Dutch windsurfing champion who became world champion in 2011
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Eurosima, the European surf industry association, has decided to spice...
Eurosima, the European surf industry association, has decided to spice up the program for this year's Surf Summit and Waterman's Ball, which will be held on Oct. 2-3 at Seignosse on the Basque Coast of France. It will introduce a new exhibit, the Surfing Lounge, to showcase the expertise, creativity ...
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Reef signs up a 24-year-old Australian surfer, Mitch Crews, who...
Reef signs up a 24-year-old Australian surfer, Mitch Crews, who won the Quiksilver Japan Open last year, although he suffered a rare form of chronic arthritis four years ago
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Burton Snowboards has promoted Mike Rees to the role of...
Burton Snowboards has promoted Mike Rees to the role of chief executive. Rees joined the Vermont-based company in 2009 and was most recently the company's chief operating officer. With Rees now running day-to-day operations, Jake Burton will once again become the company's chairman. As chief executive, Rees will head up ...
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Billabong is sponsoring a particularly skilled 11-year-old surfer and skateboarder,...
Billabong is sponsoring a particularly skilled 11-year-old surfer and skateboarder, Jay Occhilupo. Based at Coolangatta, on the Australian Goldcoast, he is the son of Mark Occhilupo, alias Occy, a long-time endorser of the Australian brand.
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Body Glove signs up Maz Quinn, a four-time national surfing...
Body Glove signs up Maz Quinn, a four-time national surfing champion from New Zealand
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A group of snowboard industry agents who have organized snowboard...
A group of snowboard industry agents who have organized snowboard contests and the Action Sports Summit at Ispo Munich has set up a new recruitment agency for the action sports sector in Munich. Called actionsportsjobs.com, it collects postings for all kinds of jobs, including internships and freelance design, from all ...
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Mormaii, the Brazilian brand of surfwear and related products, is...
Mormaii, the Brazilian brand of surfwear and related products, is being distributed in France by Sunset Sport
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Another international surf brand, Rip Curl, has licensed its eyewear...
Another international surf brand, Rip Curl, has licensed its eyewear to the recently formed Swiss Eyewear Group (SEG) for Europe and some other parts of the world, starting in spring/summer 2015, with ADSL of France acting as a distributor. The Australian surfwear brand had been previously made only in-house. Formed ...
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Nikita Clothing and Bonfire Snowboarding have announced the addition of...
Nikita Clothing and Bonfire Snowboarding have announced the addition of Vicki Vasil as brand manager for both brands. Vasil will be based in Portland, Oregon, where the two brands are headquartered, and work closely with the design teams, including Heida Birgisdottir, Nikita's founder, who is based in Reykjavík, Iceland. Vasil's ...
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Billabong signs up Jack Robinson, a very promising 16-year-old surfer...
Billabong signs up Jack Robinson, a very promising 16-year-old surfer from West Australia, for a minimum duration of five years
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Dynamite Distribution is the new distributor of Jones Snowboards in...
Dynamite Distribution is the new distributor of Jones Snowboards in Sweden
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Deeluxe has launched a completely waterproof snowboard boot with a...
Deeluxe has launched a completely waterproof snowboard boot with a breathable lining in partnership with Sympatex. Other new partners of Sympatex, which is launching a new logo, are Elkline, Kangaroos, Rockfall, Sherpa Outdoor, Stadium and Zajo
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APO, the French snowboard company run by Régis Rolland, is...
APO, the French snowboard company run by Régis Rolland, is coming up with a special dual binding for splitboards, developed together with Plum, a French manufacturer of touring skis
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Jones Snowboards, the company founded by Jeremy Jones and run...
Jones Snowboards, the company founded by Jeremy Jones and run by Xavier Nidecker, has announced an increase in its warranty on its splitboards from three to five years, starting with the autumn/winter 2014/15 model year. The company has been producing solid snowboards for back-country terrain for four years. They are ...
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APO, the French supplier of snowboards, has signed up as...
APO, the French supplier of snowboards, has signed up as exclusive partner of a snowpark at La Clusaz, in the French Alps, for two winter seasons
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The 2013 Vans Triple Crown of Surfing (VCTS) set a...
The 2013 Vans Triple Crown of Surfing (VCTS) set a record for the largest audience to witness an action sports event, with more than 3.5 million people in a total of two million hours of webcast viewing. In addition, the Billabong Pipe Masters, the final stop of the specialty series ...
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After completing the previously reported sale of its snowboard subsidiary,...
After completing the previously reported sale of its snowboard subsidiary, Mervin Manufacturing, for $58 million, Quiksilver has used a portion of the proceeds to acquire the minority interests in its high-growth operations in Brazil and Mexico. It has also arranged a three-year, €60 million European credit facility with Eurofactor. ...
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Cate Campbell, the 21-year-old freestyle swimming champion from Australia, is...
Cate Campbell, the 21-year-old freestyle swimming champion from Australia, is joining Arena's Elite Team
