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    Mathias Boenke: New Balance sees European sales of €1 bn doubling

    2022-02-03T16:14:00Z

    New Balance recently predicted that its sales would grow by about 30 percent to $4.5 billion in 2021, which would likely keep it as the sixth largest sports brand in the world. Reaching a new record level, a similar increase was booked last year in Europe, said Mathias Boenke, a ...

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    Kappa has not been doing well in China

    2022-02-03T13:48:00Z

    China Dongxiang struggled with the Kappa brand, for which it holds the rights in China, during the third quarter ended Dec. 31. The company indicated that retail revenues at Kappa and Kappa Kids stores in China declined by the mid-teens during the period, and that they were off by a ...

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    Driven by Europe and China, Asics ups its guidance

    2022-02-02T18:06:00Z

    Asics has improved its guidance for the past financial year, due to better-than-expected results in the Performance Running and Core Performance Sports categories, as well as in Europe and Greater China. Higher sales and operating results than previously forecast should lead the company to report a net profit of around ...

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    Nike suspends football player on allegations of sexual assault

    2022-02-02T18:05:00Z

    Nike has suspended the four-year sponsorship contract it had signed a year ago with Mason Greenwood, the 20-year-old Manchester United striker who was arrested last Sunday on suspicion of raping a woman, based on videos posted on social media. The local police is also suspecting that he was threatening to ...

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    Adidas and Decathlon encourage shoe recycling to help women practice sports

    2022-02-02T18:05:00Z

    Adidas and Decathlon have decided to jointly organize and finance a program intended to promote sustainability and women’s sports in France at the same time. In a first step, Decathlon has started offering customers at its 330 stores in France to drop off 25,000 used sports shoes by any brand, ...

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    Performance shares for Accell’s new supply chain leader

    2022-02-02T18:05:00Z

    Accell Group, which was recently notified about an intended, indirect takeover offer from Pon Holdings, has announced that Francesca Gamboni, who started on Feb. 1 as chief supply chain officer of the company, has been granted 10,000 conditional performance shares in the group, subjected to her continued employment three years ...

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    UA seeks to help youths engage in sport

    2022-02-01T18:04:00Z

    Under Armour is making a “new, long-term commitment” to help more youths take part in sport. The company will be focusing on three areas: Pathways: Increasing opportunities for young people to engage in organized, structured, and competitive sports programming. People: Bringing together coaches, organizations, and community stakeholders to help ...

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    Brooks’ CEO has written a book

    2022-01-31T18:01:00Z

    Jim Weber, who became president and CEO of Brooks Running in 2001, has written a book on his life journey and his career while running the formerly bankrupt company, which was acquired by Russell Athletic in 2004 and by Fruit of the Loom, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, in 2006. It ...

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    Peloton gets sued about overtime pay

    2022-01-31T18:01:00Z

    Adding to many other pending product liability and class action suits affecting the American connected fitness company, it’s now the turn for a former inside sales representative to sue Peloton Interactive, this time for alleged violation of federal and state labor legislation. The suit, filed in the New York Court ...

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    Adidas releases Valentine’s capsule with Ivy Park

    2022-01-31T18:00:00Z

    Adidas and Ivy Park, whose CEO is the singer Beyoncé, are releasing a Valentine’s Day capsule of gender-neutral apparel, gear, footwear and accessories. These include the Velour Dress and Tracksuit, Faux Latex Puffer, Pique Jumpsuit, Sequin Duster, 5-Panel Hat, Heart-Lip Belt Bag, a version of the Stan Smith sneaker and ...

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    Adidas to focus on women in 2022

    2022-01-31T18:00:00Z

    For its women-centric “Impossible Is Nothing” campaign, Adidas is making a new push this year in three directions: products, people and programs. Among the first of the products is the Ultraboost 22 sneaker, designed to address differences between male and female instep height, heel anatomy and gait cycle. This will ...

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    Dunlop becomes Slinger’s official ball provider

    2022-01-28T17:59:00Z

    Dunlop has signed a four-year deal to become the official ball provider worldwide for Slinger Bag and will be co-branding some of its tennis balls with Slinger, starting with two high-performance products, the Fort TR Plus x Slinger and the pressureless Fort Xtra Life x Slinger. The products come with ...

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    Nike elevates Ann Miller to general counsel

    2022-01-28T17:39:00Z

    Ann Miller, a 14-year Nike veteran, has been promoted to the position of executive vice president and general counsel, with effect from Feb. 17. She will take the place of Hilary Krane, who will be retiring after 12 years with the group. Miller has been serving for the past six ...

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    New partner for Reebok in Mideast and Africa

    2022-01-28T17:38:00Z

    Al Boom Marine (ABM) has been selected by the Authentic Brands Group (ABC), as the future operating partner for Reebok in the Gulf states, the Middle East (including Iraq and Lebanon), and North Africa (including Algeria, Egypt and Morocco). ABM, a 35-year-old company based in Dubai that belongs to Scope ...

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    Adidas has two other regional clusters in Europe

    2022-01-28T16:46:00Z

    In addition to its creation of a ‘cluster’ for Southern Europe, which we reported about yesterday, Adidas has established similar regional clusters for Northern and Central Europe in the past few months. Cluster North is headed up by Kathryn Swarbick and includes the U.K., Ireland, the Benelux countries, Denmark, Norway, ...

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    Rip Curl rider launches a Masterclass for women

    2022-01-28T11:12:00Z

    Rip Curl has signed a new five-year partnership deal with Bethany Hamilton, a Hawaiian surfer who has been riding with the Australian brand for 23 years. As part of the deal, she will collaborate with the brand on video projects, surf trips, surfwear collections and other projects. She will also ...

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    New managing director for Protest Sportswear

    2022-01-28T10:50:00Z

    Wesley van Wijnbergen is the new managing director of the Dutch boardsports and lifestyle brand Protest Sportswear. He started his career as an intern at Protest in 2001 and was subsequently responsible for the retail, marketing, sales and e-commerce departments, among others. The 42-year-old executive is taking over the position ...

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    Vulcabras gets top ratings for sustainability

    2022-01-27T18:05:00Z

    Vulcabras has been certified by three Brazilian industry bodies, as a most sustainable shoe manufacturer in the country. The Brazilian parent of Olympikus, which manufactures 25 million pairs of shoes a year at its own factories in the country, It is the first one in the sector to be using ...

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    Adidas creates a new digital hub in Spain, while regionalizing Southern Europe

    2022-01-27T18:05:00Z

    Adidas is creating a new international technological hub at its Spanish head office in Zaragoza to collect and process data for the development of its omni-channel operations on a wide scale and for other IT-related engineering capabilities, said a spokesman for the company, confirming a report in CMDsport. The number ...

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    New licensee for Bogner ski hardware

    2022-01-26T17:59:00Z

    Bogner has signed up Anavon Ski as its new licensee in the premium ski equipment sector. The German brand’s former licensee in this segment was Indigo, a company that went bankrupt and was subsequenty taken over by Head. Starting with the new year, Bogner and Disentis, the Swiss parent company ...