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Puma and Amazon Fashion have joined forces on a new...
Puma and Amazon Fashion have joined forces on a new athleisure line for men and women, called “Care of by Puma.” The German sportswear brand has designed the pieces while Amazon Fashion is responsible for marketing and distribution. The collection will be available exclusively on Amazon.com. A pilot collection of ...
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Vans, a brand of VF Corp., has announced the launch...
Vans, a brand of VF Corp., has announced the launch of Vans Checkerboard Day, an annual event to rally communities around the idea of fueling creativity. On the inaugural Vans Checkerboard Day, which will be held on Nov. 21, Vans will donate $1 million from global sales at the brand's ...
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Fast-growing Anta reorganizes, focusing on quality
Exceeding expectations, Anta Sports Products reported a 40.3 percent increase in revenues to 14.81 billion renmimbi (€1.889bn-$2.072bn) for the first half ended on June 30. The attributable profit went up by 27.7 percent to RMB 2.48 billion (€316m-$347m), and it jumped by 53.5 percent to RMB 3.07 billion (€391m-$429m) excluding ...
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Under Armour has set up a temporary store at Galeries...
Under Armour has set up a temporary store at Galeries Lafayette on Paris' boulevard Haussman entirely dedicated to some of its women's apparel lines
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Nike has been honored with the “outstanding commercial” award at...
Nike has been honored with the “outstanding commercial” award at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards for its “Dream Crazy” campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, the former quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers. It is Nike's first “outstanding commercial” Emmy in 17 years for an ad. The commercial was released in September ...
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Nike beats forecasts
Nike announced higher-than-expected increases in profits and revenues for its first fiscal quarter ended on Aug. 31, despite currency headwinds and the trade tensions between China and the U.S. The company's share price jumped by 5 percent to an all-time high following the release of its results.Sales increased by 7 ...
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Columbia Sportswear has purchased three buildings from Electro Scientific Industries...
Columbia Sportswear has purchased three buildings from Electro Scientific Industries (ESI), a firm specialized in laser applications. All lie within a quarter-mile of Columbia's current headquarters in Washington County, Oregon, and will expand it. The additional 200,000 square feet of space are costing about $33 million. The first building should ...
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A former professional snowboarder, David Pitschi, has joined the Nidecker...
A former professional snowboarder, David Pitschi, has joined the Nidecker Group as brand manager for its Yes snowboards subsidiary. He will be working with one of the brand's ambassadors, Alex Warburton, and with its owners, David Carrier-Porcheron, Romain de Marchi and Jan Petter Solberg. Warburton will be retaining the post ...
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A doping scandal mars Nike’s image
Nike and its chief executive, Mike Parker, have become involved in a highly publicized case of athletic doping. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has decreed four-year “sanctions” on Alberto Salazar, head coach of the Nike Oregon Project, and Jeffrey Brown, the project's endocrinologist. Salazar has been barred from participating in ...
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Marty Pomfry, a former executive of Nike and Fossil, has...
Marty Pomfry, a former executive of Nike and Fossil, has been appointed by Patagonia as general manager of its Japanese subsidiary
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Nike is gearing up to open its third House of...
Nike is gearing up to open its third House of Innovation in Paris in the next few weeks, after those it already has in NewYork and Shanghai. Taking the place of a former Toyota concession and extra office space, the new flagship store will be located at 79, avenue des ...
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Nike has upgraded its original 1991 Air Huarache with its...
Nike has upgraded its original 1991 Air Huarache with its latest FitAdapt laceless technology. The self-lacing shoe can be voice-activated by Siri and operated by Apple Watch but features the same neoprene bootie and exoskeleton as the original Huarache. The Adapt app will activate the mid-foot lacing motor, control two ...
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VF Corp. is once again holding its “Purpose Days” program....
VF Corp. is once again holding its “Purpose Days” program. During the week of Sept. 9, some 500 employees in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) have been volunteering their time for various activities to support their communities. Working with non-profit organizations, the American lifestyle company, which owns many ...
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Wilson, a subsidiary of Amer Sports, has introduced the Triniti,...
Wilson, a subsidiary of Amer Sports, has introduced the Triniti, a new tennis ball that is said to both last longer and not require packaging in pressurized plastic containers. The core of the ball is made from a plastomer material, which weighs less than the traditional core of a tennis ...
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Cole Haan, the American footwear brand sold by the Nike...
Cole Haan, the American footwear brand sold by the Nike group to Apax Partners in 2013, is readying a public offering on the stock exchange, according to Bloomberg. The news agency reported that the company's revenues rose by 14 percent to €687 million in the financial year ended in June ...
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Nike and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee have...
Nike and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee have released the “Coaching Girls” modules, as part of the “How to Coach Kids” offering for volunteer youth coaches. Contents in the new Coaching Girls course include: Creating a Girl-Inclusive Culture ; Getting to Know Girls – Stages of Development; Giving ...
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Nike has announced that it will name the newest building...
Nike has announced that it will name the newest building in the expansion of its world headquarters in Beaverton after LeBron James, the NBA legend, two-time Olympic gold medalist and a Nike athlete since 2003. It is the sixth new building at the company's world campus since it started an ...
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VF Corp. has announced that it will stop directly sourcing...
VF Corp. has announced that it will stop directly sourcing leather and hides from Brazil, mentioning concerns over the environmental impact made by cattle ranchers clearing land to raise cattle or source timber. This practice is believed to be causing the vast majority of the fires that are currently destroying ...
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Mascot Bidco Oy, the investment consortium led by Anta Sports...
Mascot Bidco Oy, the investment consortium led by Anta Sports Products, reports that it has gained title to all the shares in Amer Sports through the redemption of those that had not been tendered already. The stock was de-listed from the Nasdaq Helsinki exchange on Aug. 23.
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Dennis James “Chip” Wilson's investment in China's Anta Sports Products...
Dennis James “Chip” Wilson's investment in China's Anta Sports Products has paid off handsomely. The billionaire founder of Lululemon had paid $100 million to buy a 0.59 percent stake in the big and fast-growing Chinese company in May 2018. Shares in the Chinese company have risen strongly since then, along ...
