News and insights about brands in the sporting goods industry – Page 264
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Puma has signed up Julian Weigl, a 21-year-old midfield player...
Puma has signed up Julian Weigl, a 21-year-old midfield player for the German Borussia Dortmund football team who also competes in the national German team
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Adidas has promoted Arthur Hoeld to the position of senior...
Adidas has promoted Arthur Hoeld to the position of senior vice president of brand strategy and business development. The manager, who has been with the group since 1998, is getting rewarded for his successful work as general manager of its fast-growing Adidas Originals segment since 2011, first as senior vice ...
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Adidas has filed a lawsuit against Puma in the federal...
Adidas has filed a lawsuit against Puma in the federal court of Portland, Oregon, charging that the four stripes on the Empower Vigor 1 Camo FG cleated shoe create confusion in the market with its own three-stride trademark. The stripes on Puma's shoe appear as extensions of the lacing system, ...
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Adidas will replace Nike as the official supplier of Rutgers...
Adidas will replace Nike as the official supplier of Rutgers University and its Scarlet Knights team from next July
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Adidas and Burberry won a “Gold Class” award in the...
Adidas and Burberry won a “Gold Class” award in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) carried out by RobecoSAM among 840 companies that are included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Both companies got a score of 60 points or more. Kering, parent company of Puma, qualified for Silver Class with ...
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Xabi Alonso, the Spanish football player of the Bayern München...
Xabi Alonso, the Spanish football player of the Bayern München team, and his wife Nagore Aranburu are Adidas' ambassadors in a campaign for its spring/summer 2017 Porsche Design Sport collection
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The Scandinavian Outdoor Group named Devold, which also got an...
The Scandinavian Outdoor Group named Devold, which also got an Ispo Gold Award, as the overall winner of the SOG Awards for the autumn/winter 2017/18 season at Ispo. Picture Organic, which uses mostly recycled materials in its technical garments, came out as the winner of the French Outdoor Award ...
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Amer Sports is on track despite short-term delays
The Amer Sports group achieved record sales and profits last year despite a weak fourth quarter, caused by lackluster market conditions as well as delays in product launches.The owner of Salomon, Atomic, Wilson and many other brands saw its sales decline by 1 percent to €772.4 million for the last ...
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Amer Sports has decided to repurchase up to ten million...
Amer Sports has decided to repurchase up to ten million of its own shares between Feb. 13 and Sept. 7, based on the authorization given by its annual general meeting last March 6
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Victorinox has decided to stop marketing a collection of apparel...
Victorinox has decided to stop marketing a collection of apparel by the end of this year. It will still sell a line for autumn/winter 2017/18 in Japan, but its involvement in the segment will end elsewhere after the spring/summer 2017 line. The Swiss company has been marketing its quite functional ...
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Reebok gathered athletes, brand partners and volunteers in four cities...
Reebok gathered athletes, brand partners and volunteers in four cities around the world on Feb. 8, to try to break some of the fitness-based titles featured in the Guinness World Record in 24 hours using Reebok's Nano 7 training footwear. The attempts took place in New York City, Los Angeles, ...
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Wintersteiger came out as the overall Ispo Gold Award winner...
Wintersteiger came out as the overall Ispo Gold Award winner with a foot scanner that it is proposing for the fitting of ski boots. It developed a specific software for the very quick process in cooperation with a Swedish specialist in 3D scanning, Volumental.
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New Balance and New Era Cap are collaborating on a...
New Balance and New Era Cap are collaborating on a limited edition of coordinated baseball cleats and caps that are already available on their websites
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Roger Spatz, who has been the president of Eagle Creek...
Roger Spatz, who has been the president of Eagle Creek since 2011, will also serve as president of Reef, another brand of VF Corp. He had already been the chief financial officer of Reef for a brief period during his 12-year tenure at VF.
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Michelin Technical Soles unveiled collaborations at the Ispo Munich show...
Michelin Technical Soles unveiled collaborations at the Ispo Munich show earlier this month with four more companies - Columbia, Hanwag, Mammut and Nordica – starting with the next autumn/winter season. It has also developed new projects with Etnies in the area of skate shoes and Chaud Devant for chefs' shoes.
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Columbia has little growth
The late start of the winter led to weaker than anticipated sales for Columbia Sportswear in the fourth quarter but sales were still up by 3 percent to $717.4 million, which was a rise of 2 percent in constant currencies. The U.S. outdoor group's turnover for the full year reached ...
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Compressport has signed up as a sponsor of the Ironman...
Compressport has signed up as a sponsor of the Ironman Europe series and the Harmony Marathon for Unicef scheduled for May 7-8 in Geneva
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Rip Curl says it has extended its contract with Oney...
Rip Curl says it has extended its contract with Oney Anwar, the Indonesian surfer whom it has been sponsoring for 14 years, since he was only nine years old
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Look Cycle and SRAM have decided to cooperate in the...
Look Cycle and SRAM have decided to cooperate in the design, development and marketing of innovative products and services in the areas of composites and electronics
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Leki replaced its usual corporate red with pink for the...
Leki replaced its usual corporate red with pink for the first time on its women's race poles for the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in St Moritz, which was held on Feb. 6-19. The color change is the first for the company since it introduced race poles back in the ...
