Adidas is expected to put an end to its involvement in table-tennis equipment by the end of this year. Greenmaster, which has been its licensee for this product category, has reportedly agreed to stop it by then. Frank Koch, the former executive of Kettler who started the project at Greenmaster, left the Taiwanese group in 2012 to run Sportart 3, a company that licensed other types of Adidas branded products for the German-speaking markets and Luxembourg.