News and insights about brands in the sporting goods industry – Page 305
-
News briefs
New Balance continues to invest in sports marketing, this time...
New Balance continues to invest in sports marketing, this time by signing up a popular baseball player, Robinson Cano of the Seattle Mariners, and adding another nation in global football. Costa Rica's national football teams, which were previously sponsored by Lotto, will don New Balance jerseys, starting immediately, including the ...
-
News briefs
Asics has been picked as the tenth Gold Partner of...
Asics has been picked as the tenth Gold Partner of the organizing committee for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Asics is to supply the uniforms for the Japanese national Olympic and Paralympic teams, as well as the volunteers for the Games. The 2020 Olympics will take place in the ...
-
News briefs
Arena has signed a sponsorship deal with Bruno Fratus, the...
Arena has signed a sponsorship deal with Bruno Fratus, the 25-year-old Brazilian swimmer who is the current Pan Pacific 50-meter freestyle champion and record holder. Fratus is expected to be a major contender at the 2016 Olympics in his home country. He has regularly been one of the top contenders ...
-
News briefs
The Arsenal Football Club pulled a nice April Fool's Day...
The Arsenal Football Club pulled a nice April Fool's Day prank by announced to its fans that it has developed the world's first “left-footed football” with its sponsor, Puma, accompanying the revelation with a convincing video featuring some of its star players - Santi Cazorla, Mesut Ozil, Nacho Monreal and ...
-
News briefs
Glenmuir, the Scottish golf brand, has become the official apparel...
Glenmuir, the Scottish golf brand, has become the official apparel sponsor of the Icons Cup, a two-day team competition that is held this year for the first time at the Jumeirah Golf Estates' Earth Course in Dubai on April 22-24. The competition will pit Team USA against Team Rest of ...
-
News briefs
Swix will be the official apparel supplier to Cross Country...
Swix will be the official apparel supplier to Cross Country Canada (CCC) through 2018 and will supply all training and racing apparel. CCC has also announced that Canadians will have an opportunity to design the first Swix National Ski Team race suit through a contest being launched on April 13 ...
-
Short stops
Inosport, the European sports innovation platform, will hold its annual...
Inosport, the European sports innovation platform, will hold its annual convention in the French city of Voiron on June 11
-
News briefs
Saucony has announced the launch of Seeker, a new multimedia...
Saucony has announced the launch of Seeker, a new multimedia global brand campaign, which revolves around the idea that people have to seek their uniquely personal strength to discover it. This new campaign is a continuation of the brand's Find Your Strong initiative, to which it adds a further call ...
-
News briefs
Jack Nicklaus, the famous American golf player who was nicknamed...
Jack Nicklaus, the famous American golf player who was nicknamed the Golden Bear, received a Congressional Gold Medal in the U.S. Capitol's Rotunda in Washington on March 24. Meanwhile, Allen Edmonds, a leading American manufacturer of goodyear-welted men's shoes, has put out a Jack Nicklaus Signature Collection of four styles ...
-
News briefs
Maui Jim, the American brand of sunglasses, has signed an...
Maui Jim, the American brand of sunglasses, has signed an endorsement contract with Meb Keflezighi, the refugee from Eritrea who has won the New York Marathon, the Boston Marathon and an Olympic medal. He will act as an ambassador of the brand along with David Ferrer and several other tennis ...
-
News briefs
American Golf, the big British golf retailer, is launching a...
American Golf, the big British golf retailer, is launching a spate of initiatives to support This Girl Can, the campaign initiated by Sport England aiming to stimulate sports activity among women aged 14 to 40. American Golf particularly wants to make it less intimidating for girls and women to try ...
-
Article
Adidas wants to run faster in two-horse race against Nike
While unveiling its latest five-year strategic plan at an investor day three weeks ago, the Adidas Group implicitly admitted that it could not catch up with its bigger American rival in the next few years – but the plan and the new management that will implement it could infuse ...
-
Article
Duo takes the lead at Adidas Group
The investor day held in Herzogenaurach three weeks ago enabled the company to push forward two new executive board members. Herbert Hainer, the Adidas Group's chief executive, who has been under some pressure since the company's profit warning last year, made it clear a few weeks ago that he will ...
-
News briefs
Adidas has sued Marc Jacobs in an Oregon court for...
Adidas has sued Marc Jacobs in an Oregon court for the designer's use of four parallel stripes along the sleeves of some knitted garments. Adidas claims that they are confusingly similar to the three stripes used in two garments designed in cooperation with Yohji Yamamoto for its own Y-3 line.
-
News briefs
Adidas Golf is launching what it describes as the first...
Adidas Golf is launching what it describes as the first fully asymmetrical golf shoe, the Asym Energy Boost. The distinctive right and left shoes are meant to guide weight transfer, stability and power through the swing. Adidas used heat map and force plate pressure studies to measure the different vertical ...
-
News briefs
Adidas has teamed up with Yohji Yamamoto for the release...
Adidas has teamed up with Yohji Yamamoto for the release of a capsule Roland Garros collection for the impending French Open. The clothing and accessories feature Yamamoto's black-and-white color scheme while the shoes, predominantly black, are characterized by the presence of the Hawaiian floral prints of the Y-3 spring-summer 2015 ...
-
News briefs
Asics engaged its own team of 30 women in last...
Asics engaged its own team of 30 women in last Sunday's Schneider Electric Marathon of Paris, after coaching them for four months. Meanwhile, the Japanese brand is recruiting 15 amateur runners from all over the world to participate in its annual “Beat the Sun” relay running race around the Mont ...
-
News briefs
The North Face has launched “Power In Me,” its...
The North Face has launched “Power In Me,” its multi-channel campaign for spring/summer 2015, all over Europe. The campaign is based on three short films - “Untouched Ground,” “Always Moving,” and “From Five To Nine” - featuring the alpinist David Goettler, the ultra trail runner Lizzy Hawker, and the ...
-
Article
Columbia rejigs its top management
Columbia Sportswear has announced a reorganization of its top management, describing it as a move to drive continued profitable growth. The group expects the company's sales to expand at double-digit rates for apparel in constant currencies this year, compared with $1.7 billion in 2014, while footwear sales are predicted ...
