EVENTS – Page 42
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Fibo, the trade fair for fitness, wellness and health organized...
Fibo, the trade fair for fitness, wellness and health organized by Reed Exhibitions Deutschland, set an all-time record this year. According to the organizers, the event attracted a total of 153,000 visitors to Cologne, as compared to 136,000 in the prior year, including 83,000 trade visitors from more than 100 ...
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Derby Cycle, the company owned by Pon, and its brands...
Derby Cycle, the company owned by Pon, and its brands - Focus, Kalkhoff, Raleigh, Univega and Rixe - will not be taking part in the Eurobike trade show this summer, as the German manufacturer said it will be concentrating more on its dealer events in 2016. The company will continue ...
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The exhibitors of Performance Days, the trade show on functional...
The exhibitors of Performance Days, the trade show on functional fabrics taking place in Munich on April 20-21, have sponsored a new design project by the Master School of Fashion in Munich combining fashion and function in sportswear. Under the heading “a fior da pele,” which is the Brazilian for ...
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Sportjam will return to its original dates at a new...
Sportjam will return to its original dates at a new location on the Zurriola beach, in the city of Donostia-San Sebastián. The 12th edition of the Spanish action sports fair will be held on Oct. 1-2, 2016, one week ahead of the world surfing championship in Hossegor. Sportjam will maintain ...
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The latest winter edition of Sport-Achat, the French trade fair...
The latest winter edition of Sport-Achat, the French trade fair held on March 7-9, saw the number of visitors decline by 3.8 percent but organizers said the number of visiting companies remained stable. Although the warm winter weather has been an issue for some parts of the French market, the ...
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Expo Sports, the running fair held around the Barcelona marathon,...
Expo Sports, the running fair held around the Barcelona marathon, attracted a record number of more than 62,000 visitors this year, making it the largest running fair in Spain. This is partly because runners had to get to the fair in order to pick up their bibs. The exhibition area ...
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Sun & Sand Sports, a leading sports distributor and retailer...
Sun & Sand Sports, a leading sports distributor and retailer in the Middle East, will be the headline sponsor of the second edition of the Dubai Fitness Fest, which is scheduled to take place on Nov. 4-5 this year at SkyDive Dubai in the Dubai Marina. The Sun & Sand ...
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The organizers of Ispo Beijing boasted that the number of...
The organizers of Ispo Beijing boasted that the number of visitors at the fair soared by 29 percent to 38,600, driven by growing Chinese enthusiasm for sports and more particularly for winter sports, in the run-up to the Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing in 2022. The twelfth edition ...
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The next Ispo Shanghai fair, scheduled for July 6-8, will...
The next Ispo Shanghai fair, scheduled for July 6-8, will feature a new trends forum for beachwear. To this effect, Ispo Textrends, the platform for innovative fabrics and components, is proposing to exhibit a selection of related materials free of charge, after validation of their proposals by an international jury.
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The TCS New York City Marathon, the world's largest marathon,...
The TCS New York City Marathon, the world's largest marathon, accepted a record number of runners for its 2016 edition. New York Road Runners (NYRR), which organizes the event, announced it accepted 19,083 participants through the race entry lottery held on March 8, out of 82,172 applicants. NYRR said the ...
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Sport Achat will hold a second summer fair this year...
Sport Achat will hold a second summer fair this year in Nantes, in western France. This trade show for the French sporting goods industry is normally held twice a year in Lyon, with its next summer edition scheduled to take place on Sept 12-13. But another stop will be added ...
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Elena Jasper will take over in April as exhibition director...
Elena Jasper will take over in April as exhibition director for Ispo Beijing and Ispo Shanghai at the main office of Messe München, taking the place of Paul März who left in December. The 33-year-old worked most recently as senior manager at Siemens in Munich, where she was responsible for ...
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The London Golf Show 2016 will take place on Aug....
The London Golf Show 2016 will take place on Aug. 26-28 at Bluewater, moving from the show's traditional schedule in October/November. The 2015 show welcomed 14,881 visitors over three days, representing a 15 percent increase on the previous year. The number of exhibitors showed a similar increase. The Golf Show ...
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Pinarello has announced it is pulling out of the Eurobike...
Pinarello has announced it is pulling out of the Eurobike trade show, saying during the last few years it has been shifting toward direct involvement with its customers. The Italian bicycle company will continue to present its new products via a collaborative presentation with Team Sky at the Giro D'Italia, ...
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Messe München has reported more than 80,000 daily passages through...
Messe München has reported more than 80,000 daily passages through the turnstiles at the latest edition of Ispo Munich, which ran on Jan. 24-27. The business climate appeared to be good in spite of the lack of snow in the last months of 2015, as retailers had ordered cautiously for ...
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Messe München has decided to invest about one billion euros...
Messe München has decided to invest about one billion euros to build two new exhibition halls next to the existing C halls in its fairgrounds. They should come on-stream in mid-2018, meaning that they should be ready for the presentation of the autumn/winter 2019/20 collections at Ispo Munich. Meanwhile, the ...
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A committee of the European Outdoor Group (EOG) is still...
A committee of the European Outdoor Group (EOG) is still looking at proposals by Messe München to hold its summer OutDoor show in Munich rather than Friedrichshafen. Meanwhile, the EOG and Messe Friedrichshafen have decided to move forward the dates of the show to June 18-21 in 2017, making it ...
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Bernd Kullmann, former chief executive at Deuter, made an impassioned...
Bernd Kullmann, former chief executive at Deuter, made an impassioned plea for more women to take the lead at outdoor companies, as he handed this year's Ispo Cup to Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, a famous Austrian mountaineer. She is the first woman to have climbed all 14 peaks of more than 8,000 ...
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Two veteran activewear designers, Rolf Günther and Nora Kühner, ran...
Two veteran activewear designers, Rolf Günther and Nora Kühner, ran a new kind of workshop during the recent Ispo Munich show, challenging 25 fashion students from different countries to come up with smart and innovative concepts for winter sports clothing that can be worn in the snow or in a ...
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X-Bionic, the Swiss brand of functional base layers and socks,...
X-Bionic, the Swiss brand of functional base layers and socks, plans to inaugurate next September the so-called X-Bionic Sphere, a sports complex of one million square meters with training facilities for 27 Olympic sports. It is co-founding the €500 million project, which will also be placed at the disposal of ...
