All Action Sports articles – Page 9
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News briefsBlue Tomato opens its 70th store
The Austrian board sports and lifestyle retail chain Blue Tomato has just opened its 70th shop. Currently, the company is running physical stores in Germany, Austria, Finland, Switzerland, the Netherlands and – since the end of 2021 – Norway. The newly opened 230 sqm Blue Tomato store is next to ...
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News briefsLondon Ski & Snowboard Festival returns in October
Starting over with its new organizing event company Smart Group, the London Ski & Snowboard Festival is scheduled for Oct. 27 to 30, 2022, at Battersea Park. The four-day festival features a 42-meter ski jump, parkour arena, practice slope and a marketplace with over 200 brands and snowsports destinations. Among ...
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WSL expands partnership with Rip Curl
The World Surf League (WSL) and Rip Curl announced an extended partnership, with the Australian surf brand coming on board as the presenting partner of the MEO Pro Portugal, the third stop on the 2022 Championship Tour (CT), along with the Boost Mobile Gold Coast Pro and the Sydney Surf ...
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News briefsAction Sports Career Fair in Hossegor is back this week
After two years of absence due to the pandemic and following the two very successful first editions, EUROSIMA, the MACS District Council and the City of Hossegor, together with the Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse Employment Agency, are organizing the third edition of the Action Sports Career Fair on Friday, March 25, 2022, from ...
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News briefsElement Skateboards will be donating 1% of its global hardgood sales
Element Skateboards has announced it will donate one percent of all global hardgoods sales to 1% for the Planet. In a press release, the brand said, “At Element, we are not climate scientists. We are skateboarders, adventurers, creatives; a community of passionate people who care. We care about our planet, ...
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ArticleGoPro is back in the black, as subscriptions gain traction
The first year of GoPro’s Direct-To-Consumer subscription strategy was a wild success by any measure for the American producer of action cameras. Revenues in 2021 grew 30 percent year-over-year to $1.16 billion as subscriptions rose by 107 percent. The company currently has approximately 1.6 million total subscribers paying $49.99 monthly ...
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French pioneer in snowboard bindings has passed away
Robert Emery, a French pioneer in the development and manufacturing of snowboard bindings, has passed away at the age of 68. He inherited a factory that was making camping accessories and other products from his father Roger in 1948. The eponymous firm, Emery; then developed a series of ski bindings ...
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EuroSIMA launches surf podcast
EuroSIMA, the European surf industry association, is launching a podcast on the surfing business. Produced with Impact Zone Surf Podcast, Inside Eurosima, as the podcast is called, will be taking listeners “behind the scenes into the heart of the Actions Sports industry” and the artists, entrepreneurs and executives behind it. ...
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Karakoram to make snowboard bindings at a new U.S. factory
While continuing to get them made in the U.S., Karakoram, the American supplier of splitboard bindings founded by Bryce and Tyler Kloster in 2008, will move into a new factory in North Bend, Washington state, close to the mountain region around Snoqualmie Pass. The company has just come out with ...
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Burton releases an Ak snowboarding apparel line with Gore-Tex
Burton’s new snowboarding apparel incorporates Gore-Tex fabrics and is named after the postal abbreviation for Alaska. The Ak line has received Bluesign approval and purports to combine waterproofing and breathability with style. The first items are the Ak 457 Gore JP Jacket and JP Bib, made with a three-layer 70D ...
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ArticleA bullish European surf industry honors Frederic Basse
Surfboards, wetsuits and other hardware items in the surf sector have recorded growth rates of between 20 and 40 percent during the current post-Covid year, according to the European Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (EuroSIMA). Speaking at the annual EuroSIMA Surf Summit in Hossegor, on the French Basque coast, Jean-Louis Rodrigues, ...
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News briefsPorsche gets involved in kitesurfing
In addition to its long-standing sponsorship activities in the sports of tennis and golf, Porsche will also support the further development of kitesurfing in the future. The first event sponsored by the automotive brand will be the Red Bull King of the Air in Cape Town in November 2021. In ...
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Brazilian surf brand incorporates Polygiene treatment
Oceano Surfwear has incorporated Polygiene’s Stay Fresh anti-odor treatment into a shirt collection, called Legends, developed in cooperation with a Brazilian surfing champion, Everaldo “Pato” Teixeira. The shirts, says Polygiene, “come with a guarantee that you can wear more and wash less – lightening the load on our planet and ...
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June 25 Short Stops: Canada Goose - CSGA – HeiQ – Hestra - Jones Snowboards - Klarna – London Ski & Snowboard Festival - Parley For The Oceans - Shopify
Corporate: +++ HeiQ has acquired 100% of the equity and voting rights in a Hong Kong-based materials technology company, Life Material Technologies, which develops bio-based antimicrobial additives and treatments used by manufacturers of plastics, coatings, textiles, ceramics and paper, for $6.45 million, plus a potential earn-out ...
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News briefsThe Munich region is set to host Europe’s largest surf park
Following the official approval of the project, the ground-breaking ceremony for Surftown MUC is scheduled for the autumn of 2021, and its completion is planned for the summer of 2023. Located near Munich, the new complex will comprise a 20,000-square-meter surf pool as well as a 29,000-square-meter multifunctional hybrid building ...
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June 10 Short Stops: Accell - Archroma – Callaway - Football Association – Jack Wolfskin - Joop!- Kappa - Onefootball – Pinarello - Puma – Rusty – Shimano - Surftech – Titleist – VF - Wilson
Corporate: +++ VF Corp. is planning to discontinue the Eagle Creek brand of backpacks and luggage by the end of this year due to strategic and financial concerns, according to the Outside Business Journal +++ According to Bloomberg, the Sequential Brands Group is working on a deal with ...
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Burton calls on snowboarders to clean up their mountains
Burton Snowboards is calling for the annual Burton Clean Up Days, which started years ago with a crew of company employees picking up trash on their local mountain. Over the years, the event has grown into a movement of like-minded snowboarders cleaning up their personal playgrounds around the world. This ...
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Surfrider Europe launches Green Sport program
The Surfrider Foundation is launching its Green Sports Hub Europe program. Over the past few years, the NGO has actively participated in sports-related projects to protect the ocean and its users. The launch of Green Sport represents the next step in Surfrider Europe’s mission to promote healthier environmental sporting practices. ...
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Decathlon introduces inflatable surf board
Olaian, Decathlon’s surfing and bodyboarding brand, is launching a surfboard that can be inflated in only two minutes with a high-pressure pump, the company claims. The surfboard has been developed in France’s Basque coast, where Olaian has its global design center. The new surfboard weighs 5.8kg and can fit into ...
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Rip Curl to sponsor the World Surf League
Rip Curl will be sponsoring the World Surf League (WSL) Finals for the next three years. The single-day, winner-take-all tournament – taking place at Lower Trestles, in San Clemente, California – pits against one another the top five surfers from the Championship Tour (CT) rankings, in male and female divisions. ...
