All Coronavirus articles – Page 11

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    A 6-year-old boy designed an Erreà jersey

    2020-04-30T12:14:00Z

    Erreà has presented a special new shirt that Pescara Calcio 1936 (Pescara), a football club that is in Italy’s Serie B division, will be wearing in the next season. What is special about the shirt is that it was designed by a six-year-old boy, Luigi D’Agostino, after the club launched ...

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    Sport 2000 Germany organizes virtual order shows

    2020-04-29T09:25:00Z

    We expect that many companies will do the same in lieu of their traditional international sales meetings for spring/summer 2021 products. Due to the current situation and the uncertainty about future legal restrictions associated with the coronavirus, the German retail organization Sport 2000 is replacing its Sneaker Order Show, scheduled ...

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    ​Bucher + Walt offers drop-shipping in Switzerland

    2020-04-28T13:19:00Z

    Drop-shipping can give brands a competitive advantage during the retail lockdown ordered by several governments to reduce contamination from the coronavirus. As previously reported, the current guidelines in Switzerland have been strongly criticized by the nation’s sporting goods retailers’ association, Asmas. Bucher + Walt, the Swiss distributor who bought Dakine ...

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    Oeko-Tex waives fee for mask certification

    2020-04-28T09:26:00Z

    Since April 20, Oeko-Tex has waived the licence fee for the Standard 100 certification of mouth and nose masks in order to support the safety of the general public during the period of Covid-19. This measure follows the recently announced process changes for certificate renewals during the corona pandemic. The ...

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    JD suspends dividends

    2020-04-27T17:47:00Z

    To save cash, JD Sports Fashion is suspending its annual dividend as all its stores in the U.K., the rest of Europe and the U.S. are now closed because of the coronavirus crisis. The U.K.-based retailer’s executive chairman, Peter Cowgill, is taking a pay cut of 75 percent, while members ...

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    UYN and others make masks and do more for Covid-19

    2020-04-24T16:34:00Z

    Trerè Innovation, the Italian knitter of functional garments sold under the new UYN brand name – which stands for “Unleash Your Nature” – has converted its factory in northern Italy to make 10,000 face masks per day, while gearing up gradually for a re-start of the full production process at ...

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    More fairs are cancelled

    2020-04-24T14:28:00Z

    The Covid-19 pandemic is leading to the cancellation of more and more events because of the need for social distancing. In some cases, organizers are planning or exploring alternative formats that take advantage of the more or less sophisticated tools offered by the internet for the presentation of new products, ...

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    Some stores are re-opening in Germany

    2020-04-24T13:45:00Z

    (Updated on April 23) After consultations with the state governors, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on April 15 that certain types of stores could open again from Monday April 20, after being shut down for five weeks. The retail lockdown for non-essential items was relaxed only for stores that have ...

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    McKinsey analyzes Covid-19 with WFSGI

    2020-04-24T12:28:00Z

    After conducting consumer research and interviews with more than 25 industry players in the apparel and sports markets, McKinsey & Co. has made a series of interesting recommendations for best-practice actions that sporting goods companies can take to navigate through the current Covid-19 pandemic. They were presented in a webinar ...

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    Animal to close permanently in January

    2020-04-24T08:32:00Z

    A slow market in the U.K. made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic is leading to the demise of Animal. The British surf fashion brand was begun in 1987 in the town of Poole to sell a hook and loop watch strap-designed by its founders, two surfers: Ian Elliot and Nigel ...

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    Signa Sports United should break even

    2020-04-24T08:26:42.047Z

    Despite the pandemic, Tennis-Point will be carrying on with its expansion plans in Spain for the year, albeit with a modified calendar. The German specialty retailer, which belongs to the Signa Sports United Group, has seen its sales of tennis products drop by about 70 percent in Spain, even with ...

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    Spanish sports retailer calls Spain’s rent forgiveness insufficient

    2020-04-24T08:26:00Z

    CMDsport reports that the owner of Base Deportes Santa Gema, Francisco Torrejón, deems the Spanish government’s moratorium on rents “insufficient,” as it doubly excludes companies like his own. Decreed on April 21, the moratorium applies to independent workers and, more pertinently, to SMEs with no more than €6 million in ...

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    Alibaba to expand its cloud

    2020-04-24T08:25:00Z

    According to Reuters, Alibaba Group Holding will be investing 200 billion yuan (€26.1bn-$28.3bn) over three years to bolster its data center and develop semiconductors and operating systems for its cloud-computing infrastructure. The Covid-19 pandemic has spurred demand for business software in China, and high data volumes occasioned by quarantines have ...

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    Catalonia prepares plan to reintroduce sports

    2020-04-22T19:53:00Z

    Spain has been one of the European countries that has been most affected by the novel coronavirus. Gerard Figueras, secretary general of sports and physical activity for the autonomous region of Catalonia, has told CMDsport that its government hopes to lift the Covid-19 quarantine of children on April 27 and ...

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    Sanitized combats viruses

    2020-04-20T17:51:00Z

    Sanitized, the Swiss-based specialist in antibacterial finishings, has said that treating polyester with its additives can reduce viral load by up to 99 percent. The Sanitized T99-19 and T11-15 have been tested by independent laboratories, which have found them “verifiably effective” against viruses in accordance with the ISO18184:2019 standard. This ...

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    Columbia provides a detailed Covid-19 update

    2020-04-20T09:27:00Z

    Columbia Sportswear has suspended its quarterly dividend, its stock repurchase program and the guidance that it had given on Feb. 6 for its results in the first half of 2020 and the whole financial year. The company will give a new update when it comes out with its first-quarter ...

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    Wolverine holding virtual-only AGM

    2020-04-20T08:27:00Z

    Wolverine Worldwide announced on April 17 that its annual general meeting of shareholders will be held in a virtual-only format on April 30, due to pubic health consideration related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Shareholders who were registered as such on March 18 will be invited to visit a dedicated website ...

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    Remote voting for Thule’s AGM

    2020-04-20T08:25:00Z

    Thule Group is encouraging shareholders to exercise their voting rights remotely in advance of the Swedish company’s annual general meeting, scheduled for April 28, in order to minimize the number of people gathered at its location. They have to fill out and send a registration form by April 22 to ...

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    Decathlon sells fitness gear in supermarkets

    2020-04-18T09:09:00Z

    Sporting goods stores are locked down in France and other countries, but supermarkets are not. While keeping warehouses open to service online orders in France and other countries, Decathlon has joined forces with Franprix, a French grocery store chain, in a test that can help people stay fit at home ...

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    Fesi surveys the effect of Covid-19 on the industry

    2020-04-18T08:29:00Z

    The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) has surveyed its members to determine the extent of the Covid-19 pandemic’s effects on them and the sporting goods industry. In short, it has found that the pandemic has cut revenues considerably and that e-commerce, while more important than ever, has ...