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Decathlon, Lululemon and Puma rank high as good places to work
Decathlon, Lululemon and Puma scored high in Glassdoor’s latest annual Employees’ Choice Awards for the best places to work in certain countries. Lululemon has come in seventh place in Canada and eighth place in the U.S. Decathlon came in sixth place in France and Puma in third place in Germany. ...
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News briefsNew president for Canada Goose’s Asia Pacific division
Canada Goose has appointed Scott Cameron as the new president for the company’s Asia-Pacific division. Cameron joined Canada Goose in 2016 as chief strategy and business development officer and most recently served as president for the Greater China region. During this time, Cameron was responsible for developing and growing the ...
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VF releases "product traceability maps"
VF Corp. has made single files available for download to trace the supply chain for certain products through the last four of its five tiers. Each file goes from the finished product assembly stage (tier one) back through material production, raw material processing and raw material conversion (tier four), with ...
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Adidas to sponsor G2 e-sports
Adidas has established a multi-year sponsorship deal with G2, the entertainment and e-sports brand. It will be supplying sports apparel, manufacturing the G2 jersey for the 2021 e-sports season and developing a joint lifestyle apparel collection. The G2 x Adidas jersey will contain the Aeroready system to keep the fabric ...
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Google says it has closed Fitbit’s takeover
In a post on its blog, Google announced on Jan. 14 the closing of its acquisition of Fitbit, which has thus been delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. The announcement was timed to follow a deadline of Jan. 13 that the U.S. Justice Department had set for its approval ...
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Nike and Converse file lawsuit against nearly 600 websites
Nike and its Converse subsidiary have filed the biggest lawsuit of the kind, accusing the 186 operators of 589 websites as well as 676 social media accounts for allegedly infringing on various trademarks and attempting to sell “falsely labeled” counterfeit products under their own brand names and that of Nike’s ...
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Asics is studying the effects of sports on the mind
Asics has started a new research project about the “positive impact of sport on mental wellbeing” – in keeping, as its press release notes, with the source of its brand name: the Latin phrase “anima sana in corpore sano” (sound mind in sound body). The Japanese company will be tracking ...
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Positive quarter for Anta Sports Products
In an operational update, Anta Sports Products reported on a good performance for its various brands in the fourth quarter of 2020, without discussing the results of Amer Sports, which is indirectly owned by the major Chinese sporting goods group. The Anta brand recorded a low single-digit increase in retail ...
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Puma introduces a compression boot
Puma has launched a football boot, called the Future Z 1.1, with a mid-foot compression band, itself called the Fuzionfit+. The band combines polyester and spandex yarns, while the boot’s upper is made of a coated, knitted material. Neymar da Silva Santos and Marco Reus from the Paris Saint-Germain and ...
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Decathlon unveils a post-mastectomy sports bra
Kalenji, Decathlon’s brand for jogging and runnning, has collaborated with France’s Centre Oscar Lambret (Oscar Lambret Center) on the development of the Jogkokoon+, a sports bra specifically designed for women with breast cancer who have undergone mastectomy. Centre Oscar Lambret is the regional center for the fight against cancer of ...
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New international merchandising director from Nike for Lululemon
Lululemon has appointed Bianca Gonzalez as its new senior vice president of global merchandising. She spent the last 18 years at Nike in various roles in merchandising and category management. She was most recently vice president and general manager for the kids segment in North America. At Lululemon, Gonzalez replaces ...
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An ongoing momentum at Lululemon
Lululemon says it expects sales and earnings that will be at the high end of the previously forecast ranges for the fourth quarter and full financial year ending Jan. 30. The company had most recently projected sales growth in the mid-to-high teens for the quarter, with a rise in the ...
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Nike invests in crowdfunding platform for minorities
Nike is investing $500,000 in Black Girl Ventures, a crowdfunding platform headquartered in Washington, D.C. that describes itself as funding and scaling “tech-enabled, revenue-generating businesses (under $1M) founded by people who identify as Black/Brown and women.” According to its founder and chief executive, Shelly Bell, Black Girl Ventures will be ...
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Decathlon France will sell Brooks running products in its stores
Decathlon will be selling Brooks running products in its French stores starting mid-February. According to reports in sport-guide.com, they will be initially available in 25 Decathlon stores, mostly in the Paris/Ile de France region. Brooks products will not be available via Decathlon’s e-commerce site, though. The vertical French-based sports retailer ...
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Puma unveils the new Fuse sneaker
Puma has introduced the Fuse, a new cross-training shoe designed to resist the toughest workouts. The all-new sneaker has been tried and tested by the brand’s athletes, including Lewis Hamilton, the company said. The Fuse features a 4mm drop and wide toe boxes to provide stability. Its Pumagrip rubber outsole ...
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News briefsLululemon collaborates with London artist
Lululemon – which, thanks to lockdown-inspired fitness, enjoyed year-on-year increases of 22 percent in global sales and 160 percent in European sales in its third quarter ended on Nov. 1 – is starting the new year with a collaboration with a European designer. The Canadian sports apparel brand has launched ...
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ArticleWolverine makes two big executive appointments
Wolverine Worldwide has made a couple of executive appointments to ring in the new year. It has expanded the duties of Jim Zwiers, the current president of its international group. Zwiers is now also president of Wolverine’s global operations group, overseeing portfolio-wide sourcing, logistics, distribution, customer service and information technology. ...
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Garmin buys GEOS Worldwide
Garmin has acquired GEOS Worldwide, a company based in Montgomery, Texas that provides emergency monitoring and incident response services including search and rescue services for skiers, outdoor adventurers and boaters. The terms of the asset deal were not disclosed. Garmin plans a more extensive integration between its own capabilities and ...
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Jeff Bezos and Phil Knight made the largest donations in the U.S. in 2020
According to the annual list of top donations in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Jeff Bezos made the single-largest charitable donation in 2020. The $10 billion gift by the Amazon founder and CEO, which was announced in February, contributed to launch the Bezos Earth Fund, an initiative that is designed to ...
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Asics shutters its NYC flagship store
Asics has closed down for good its flagship store on Fifth Avenue in the Manhattan district of New York, which it had opened in 2017, occupying 2,035 square feet of selling space, to position itself in the city as a direct competitor of bigger sports brands like Nike, Adidas or ...
