All about events in the sporting goods industry – Page 24
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The Bright show, regarded as the leading European trade show...
The Bright show, regarded as the leading European trade show for streetwear, sneakers and skateboarding, which was acquired by the Premium Group in July 2015 and is held at the Arena Berlin fairgrounds, will not take place next January. According to the organizers of the show, the break will be ...
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Visitors to the next edition of Ispo Beijing, which will...
Visitors to the next edition of Ispo Beijing, which will celebrate its 15th anniversary at a new venue on Jan. 16-19, will be offered a two-day guided tour of ski resorts in preparation for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. The E-Commerce Matchmaking Program and the Asia Pacific Snow Conference will ...
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Markus Hefter, who has been in charge of Ispo Munich...
Markus Hefter, who has been in charge of Ispo Munich for the past ten years, has become personally responsible also for the new OutDoor by Ispo fair as exhibition group director. He had already served as outdoor project director for Ispo between January 2006 and October 2008. Hefter reports to ...
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The second Fibo Global Fitness Africa fair, held in Johannesburg...
The second Fibo Global Fitness Africa fair, held in Johannesburg on Oct. 26-27, hosted more than 100 exhibitors and welcomed about 5,600 visitors
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The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) will...
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) will be holding its sixth World Manufacturers Forum (WMF) on Dec. 11-12 in Ho Chi Minh City. The theme is “Manufacturing 4.0: Steps towards a Future Vision.” In keeping with this theme, the WMF will be dividing the program into four ...
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As previously reported, Performance Days, the 10-year-old trade show for...
As previously reported, Performance Days, the 10-year-old trade show for functional fabrics, will be moving from the MOC to the main fairgrounds of Messe München for its next session, scheduled for Nov. 28-29. Taking advantage of the larger floorspace in Hall C1, it will host a total of 296 exhibitors ...
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Eurobike's organizers have teamed up with counterparts in Thailand to...
Eurobike's organizers have teamed up with counterparts in Thailand to set up a new trade fair targeting the cycling business in South East Asia. Aseanbike powered by Eurobike will be held for the first time next year, over three days starting on Oct. 3, at the Impact Exhibition and Convention ...
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Sports retailers are being given preferential rates for attending the...
Sports retailers are being given preferential rates for attending the Ispo Munich show next Feb. 3-6, supplementing various services that are already available to this important target group. Exhibitors are already being given free tickets for their key retail customers. The others will have to pay only €19 for a ...
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Ispo started to accept applications for the 2019 Ispo Awards...
Ispo started to accept applications for the 2019 Ispo Awards on Oct. 1, establishing Dec. 7 as the deadline for receiving them. In the previous contest, the deadline had been set much later, on Jan. 10, leaving little time for the jury to make its selections.
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Paying tribute to the new athleisure trend, Première Vision, the...
Paying tribute to the new athleisure trend, Première Vision, the world's largest fabrics fair, is launching a new Sport & Tech section at its next show on Sept. 19-21, accompanied by conferences on the subject. The initiative has led Polartec and Primaloft to exhibit at the fair, joining 73 other ...
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The third edition of the Bread & Butter by Zalando...
The third edition of the Bread & Butter by Zalando fashion festival in Berlin registered 35,000 visitors, 16 percent more than in the previous year. It ran from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2, and the marketing event organized by the online retailer was apparently sold out every day. The festival ...
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A new national B2B and B2C trade show, Surf Out...
A new national B2B and B2C trade show, Surf Out Portugal, will make its debut in Portugal on Sept. 15 and 16. It will be held at Estoril near Cascais, the surf spot north of Lisbon. Rusty and Lightning Bolt are mentioned among the 45 exhibitors along with local surf ...
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Polartec said it will show for the first time at...
Polartec said it will show for the first time at Première Vision, the big textile show in Paris, on Sept. 19-21, to make a statement in what it calls the “tech casual” segment
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Burton and Nitro, two leading snowboarding companies, have joined the...
Burton and Nitro, two leading snowboarding companies, have joined the European Outdoor Group (EOG), widening the remit of the organization. Burton and Nitro have both become full members, and Salomon is adding its snowboard business to its existing membership. The EOG said that this highlights the alignment and synergy between ...
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Micam, the world's leading footwear exhibition held in Milan twice...
Micam, the world's leading footwear exhibition held in Milan twice a year, has decided to stage for the first time a consumer event for sneaker fans, targeting millennials, in 2019. Inspired by sneaker conventions like the Complexcon festival in Los Angeles or Atlanta's KixFair, Micam's “Plug-Mi, The Sneakers Culture Experience” ...
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The European Platform for Sports Innovation (EPSI) plans to hold...
The European Platform for Sports Innovation (EPSI) plans to hold its annual conference in Ghent, Belgium, on Oct. 25 and 26, with the support of Pinnacle and Ghent University Victoris. In June, the organization has reached its goal of doubling the number of members in one year. Continuing to provide ...
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Changing their minds, the organizers of the Eurobike show in...
Changing their minds, the organizers of the Eurobike show in Friedrichshafen have decided to take it back to its older end-of-season schedule. Messe Friedrichshafen had proposed to stage the show next year from July 31 to Aug. 3, but it gave in to the requests for later dates by Shimano ...
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Messe München says that its Ispo Digitize Summit attracted a...
Messe München says that its Ispo Digitize Summit attracted a total of 443 participants, 20 percent from outside Germany, at its first edition outside the Ispo show in Munich last June 28 and 29. We plan to report on some of the highlights in a forthcoming edition of SGI Europe. ...
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The July 5-7 edition of Ispo Shanghai attracted over 14,500...
The July 5-7 edition of Ispo Shanghai attracted over 14,500 visitors, four percent more than one year ago. The organizers estimate that nearly half of the visitors to the show tend to come from the retail and distribution segment, and that more than 80 percent of them are decision-makers. A ...
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The new Outdoor by Ispo show in Munich, which will...
The new Outdoor by Ispo show in Munich, which will take the place of the OutDoor show in Friedrichshafen, will occupy nine halls on the eastern side of the main fairgrounds. It will be divided into three segments: Core Outdoor, Outdoor Plus and X Industries. The third segment will be ...
