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Adidas and Vice Golf partner on a shoe project
Adidas and Vice Golf, a German brand of golf balls, have joined forces on a limited-edition golf shoe that incorporates the Adidas Boost foam-cushioning technology. The shoe is mostly white, with lime-green accents and a camouflage pattern in gray and white on the top. Vice’s logo is visible underneath the ...
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One of Zalando’s three CEOs to step down
Rubin Ritter plans to step down as Zalando’s joint chief executive, responsible for strategy and communication. He and the company’s supervisory board will be negotiating to dissolve his contract, which was to run until November 2023. Ritter says that he will be spending more time with his expanding family and ...
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Stone Island merges into Moncler
Moncler says it is going “beyond fashion” and “beyond luxury” through an agreement in principle to merge with Stone Island, an Italian brand of casual sportswear. It is also going beyond its roots in sports. As Moncler puts it, the two brands want to strengthen their ability to interpret the ...
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Many seek to ‘Make Amazon Pay’
Some 401 parliamentarians and public officials – among them Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of the U.K.’s Labour Party; Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former minister of finance; and Ilhan Omar and Rachida Tlaib, two members of the so-called “Squad” in the U.S. House of Representatives – have signed an open letter to ...
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Infographics & DataThe German Sports Retail Market
This interactive chart shows the largest german sports retailers by revenue, total market size 2019, market shares and revenue development vs the previous year. This chart can be downloaded as JPG, PNG or PDF.
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Adidas grants a Corona bonus to all employees
Adidas has announced that it will give a Corona thank you bonus to all the members of its staff of about 60,000 employees around the world for Christmas. Regulations introduced by the German government will make the bonus free of taxes and social charges. The bonus will amount to up ...
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Nike and others lobby against Xinjiang labor bill in U.S.
According to the New York Times, Nike – along with Apple, Coca-Cola and other large companies – has been lobbying the U.S. Congress to soften some of the provisions of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which is not yet the law of the land but has been passed in ...
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Foot Locker’s CFO is due to retire in April
Foot Locker expects Lauren B. Peters to step down as executive vice president and chief financial officer and retire in April 2021. The sports retailer has engaged the headhunting firm Crist | Kolder to find a successor from in- or outside its ranks. Peters has been with Foot Locker for ...
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Sergio Ramos leaves Nike, probably for Adidas
The captain of the Real Madrid football club and the Spanish national football team, Sergio Ramos, has decided not to extend his 10-year deal with Nike. He has now posted a photo on Instagram of him wearing Adidas boots, leading to press speculations that he has signed up with the ...
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News briefsVF opens its first multi-brand store
VF Corporation has opened its first multi-brand store on a surface of 2,000 square meters on three levels in a landmark building near Milan’s cathedral. Named after its address, Orefici11 carries three brands – Timberland, The North Face and Napapijri – with dedicated show windows for each brand and dedicated ...
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News briefsUnder Armour launches the Curry brand
Imitating what Nike has done so successfully with Michael Jordan and the Jordan brand, Under Armour has launched the Curry sub-brand and logo in a new line of apparel and footwear products for a variety of sports. It is named after Stephen Curry, the 31-year-old NBA star whom it has ...
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Adidas is a new founding partner of the Global Sports Week
Adidas has been announced as a new founding partner of the Global Sports Week (GSW) in Paris. The German sportswear giant joins the other founding partners of the event, which are the French Ministry of Sport, the French banking group BPCE, and EGG Events. The first edition of GSW Paris ...
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Schmidt-Eisenhart will be Calida’s new CEO
The board of directors of the Swiss Calida Group, which is about to take full ownership of the Lafuma Group with its outdoor brands Millet and Lafuma, has appointed Timo Schmidt-Eisenhart, a veran of Nike and VF Corp. as its chief executive. He will succeed Reiner Pichler in the first ...
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Few sports brands in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Sustainability has become an increasingly important issue in the sporting goods sector. However, after being on the list for 20 consecutive years, Adidas is absent from this year’s Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). The annual DJSI, which has reached its 21st edition, assesses the sustainability performance of the largest 2,500 ...
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Adidas launches its first road cycling shoe since 2005
Evidently responding to the booming demand for cycling products, Adidas is releasing the Road Cycling Shoe, its first since the launch of the Adistar Road SL over 15 years ago. The upper of the Road Cycling Shoe is made from Primegreen, which the company claims to be a 100 percent ...
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AnalysisAnalysis: The European Sports Retail Market
This is an exclusive, yearly statistic only available for subscribers of SGI Europe. It includes revenue and market share development of the major sporting goods retailers in 15 European countries.
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Amazon launches its IP Accelerator in Europe
Amazon has launched its Intellectual Property Accelerator (IP Accelerator) in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the U.K. A version of it has been operational in the U.S. since 2019. The stated purpose is to connect small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) with a “curated network” of European law firms ...
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EU to rule on Fitbit’s takeover in 2021
The European Commission’s anti-trust authorities are no longer expected to complete their Phase Two review of Google’s proposed acquisition of Fitbit by the end of this year, as previously reported. According to CTFN, the American information service on mergers & acquisitions, it will rule on the issue on Jan. 8 ...
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Puma opposes Fifa’s World Cup trademark
We are often confronted with the use of the term “World Cup” for both ski and football tournaments, but we regularly add the name of the organizer. The Wild Cat has now filed an opposition with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) to an attempt to legalize the use ...
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Nike raises its dividend by 12%
Despite the coronavirus crisis, which has led other companies forego or reduced their dividends to preserve their liquidity, Nike has announced a 12 percent increase in its quarterly dividend to $0.275 per share, payable on Dec. 29 to shareholders of record on Dec. 7. It is the 19th consecutive year ...
