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Columbia Sportswear has introduced in the U.S. a footwear line...
Columbia Sportswear has introduced in the U.S. a footwear line designed for both the city and the trail. The SH/FT Collection takes inspiration from the growing tendency among city dwellers to seek balance in their lives by heading to the outdoors. The idea, as Columbia puts it, is to allow ...
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Nike has signed a two-year licensing deal to use some...
Nike has signed a two-year licensing deal to use some of New York City's logos on its merchandise. The logos in question include the New York Police Department's badge, the Fire Department's insignia, the taxi “T”, the Staten Island Ferry's logo, the leaf of the Parks Department and the bomb ...
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Intersport works with Amazon and SportMarken24 in Germany
Intersport Germany continues to expand the range of omni-channel services for its retail members. Most recently, the German-based retail cooperative opened new channels for targeted sales on third-party platforms.In addition to its own online platform, intersport.de, which operates out of its headquarters in Heilbronn, the company is now offering to ...
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Adidas maintains its guidance but warns about a global crisis
Commenting on the Adidas Group's latest results just after a much-criticized, temporary drop in the value of the yuan renmimbi, the company's chief executive, Kasper Rorsted, warned last Thursday that “everybody will lose” if the trade dispute between the U.S. and China escalates into a currency war, as it will ...
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Nike has made another acquisition to boost its consumer-direct initiative....
Nike has made another acquisition to boost its consumer-direct initiative. After taking over a data analytics firm, Zodiac, and a developer of body-scanning technology, Invertex, it has acquired Celect, an American company that uses artificial intelligence to analyze retail data and predict future consumer purchases and the related allocations of ...
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Adidas and Sportmaster join forces on the Russian market
Confirming our previous report on the subject, Adidas and the biggest Russian sports retailer announced that they had signed a new partnership agreement in a joint statement on July 23. For many years, Adidas had refused to sell it products to Sportmaster, focusing instead on its own large network of ...
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The former chief executive officer of the Adidas Group, Herbert...
The former chief executive officer of the Adidas Group, Herbert Hainer, will replace Uli Hoeness as chairman of the supervisory board of the FC Bayern Munich, the company controlling the homonymous football club, according to the business monthly Manager Magazin. Hainer, a passionate supporter of the team, in which Adidas ...
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The supervisory board of the Adidas Group has extended the...
The supervisory board of the Adidas Group has extended the contracts of Karen Parker, the executive board member responsible for human relations, and Harm Ohlmeyer, chief financial officer, for five years to 2025
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Skechers and Adidas have reached a settlement in their dispute...
Skechers and Adidas have reached a settlement in their dispute over footwear stripes. A filing by Skechers on July 29 at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California asked for the dismissal without prejudice of a lawsuit brought by Adidas, which had claimed that Skechers' Goldie-Peaks shoe infringed its Three Stripes ...
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Adidas is reportedly considering putting a deposit on sports shoes...
Adidas is reportedly considering putting a deposit on sports shoes – as in Germany's “Pfandsystem” (Pfand means “deposit”) – similar to what is often done with plastic and glass bottles. According to reports in sportstextiles.com, the brand is exploring charging a returnable deposit of €10 on a pair of shoes ...
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VF Corp. has announced the appointment of Jan Van Mossevelde...
VF Corp. has announced the appointment of Jan Van Mossevelde as vice-president and general manager of Icebreaker for the EMEA region, effective with this coming autumn. He will replace Peter Ottervanger, who has decided to leave the brand to pursue new opportunities. Van Mossevelde joined VF in 2015, and since ...
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Nike and the Jordan Brand have become the official outfitters...
Nike and the Jordan Brand have become the official outfitters of the Basketball Africa League (BAL), the new professional league of 12 African teams. The brands will be supplying uniforms, warm-up apparel, socks and practice gear. Nike will supply six teams and the Jordan Brand the other six. Play is ...
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Nike has extended its partnership deal with the National Women's...
Nike has extended its partnership deal with the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the sport's highest level in the U.S., through 2022. The brand will remain the league's exclusive partner for uniforms, apparel and equipment. Nike first signed the deal in 2012, as a founding sponsor of the league.
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Record Q2 results for Columbia
Columbia Sportswear's net income rocketed by 137 percent to $23.0 million in the seasonally small second quarter ended June 30. One of the drivers was an exceptionally strong counter-seasonal business with Columbia's line of performance fishing gear, PFG, which is approaching an annual turnover of $200 million.The group's quarterly revenues ...
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Adidas has come up with a new video ad, titled...
Adidas has come up with a new video ad, titled “The Deal,” for its FW19 football boot pack. In the video, Paul Pogba, Leo Messi, Mesut Ozil and 18 other players speak in close-up directly into the camera and lay out the terms of the deal – the way in which ...
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Mark King, a former president of Adidas North America who...
Mark King, a former president of Adidas North America who is now 60 years old, has been made chief executive of Taco Bell, one of the American fast-food chains owned by Yum! Brands
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Adidas is going to replace Nike as the sponsor of...
Adidas is going to replace Nike as the sponsor of the Boca Juniors football club in Argentina, reportedly paying $100 million over the next ten years. It will also pay additional bonuses for victories and royalties on the sale of jerseys. Adidas is also the sponsor of a rival Argentinian ...
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The new face of Adidas x Stella McCartney for its...
The new face of Adidas x Stella McCartney for its autumn/winter 2019 collection is Grimes, the 31-year-old Canadian singer and environmental activist. The artist previously collaborated with McCartney in 2016, when she joined Madonna's daughter and Amanda Stenberg in a video to promote McCartney's Pop perfume.
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Adidas and Under Armour have been recognized at the fifth...
Adidas and Under Armour have been recognized at the fifth annual ESPN Sports Humanitarian Awards. Adidas won the first Sports Sustainability Leadership Award while UA won the Corporate Community Impact Award. The awards were handed out at The Novo, an indoor club located at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, ...
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Adidas and Nike are in the top five of the...
Adidas and Nike are in the top five of the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI)'s leaderboard for 2018, at the fourth and fifth place, respectively. The BCI is the Geneva-based body that campaigns for increased production and consumption of “more sustainable cotton.” Fifteen companies featured on its 2018 leaderboard, a table ...
