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    Adriano Testa, former president of FEDAS, has passed away

    2021-12-08T15:05:00Z

    Adriano Testa, a former president of the European sporting goods federation (FEDAS), has passed away, aged 86. Inheriting the reputed Testa Sport sports store in St. Moritz from his father, he ran it from 1964 to 1996. As a member of ASMAS, the Swiss sporting goods retailers’ association, he acted ...

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    Further development of the FEDAS Key

    2021-03-04T16:29:00Z

    SGI-DHO, the European organization that stands for the Sporting Goods Data Harmonization Organization is focusing on the further development of the FEDAS Key, for which it is responsible, in the “training/fitness” and “travel/outdoor equipment” categories. It has already adjusted the bike category and developed a new classification for “virus protection ...

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    Ernst Aichinger has passed away

    2021-01-20T16:43:00Z

    Ernst Aichinger, a former vice president of the European sporting goods retailers’ federation (FEDAS) who contributed to the launch of the annual European Week of Sport, passed away on Jan. 14 at the age of 73. The Austrian business graduate was a retail member of Sport 2000 Austria and a ...

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    Stefan Herzog is the new president of Fedas

    2020-06-24T20:32:00Z

    The European Federation of Sports Retailers, Fedas, unanimously elected Stefan Herzog as its new president at its general assembly, convened via a videoconference. Herzog, who ran SportScheck for many years until 2016, will continue as secretary general of VDS, the German Sports Retailers’s Federation, which he has led since the ...

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    Fedas fears big sales losses for sports retailers

    2020-05-15T17:43:00Z

    The Federation of European Sports Retailers (Fedas) has developed a plan of action to improve the protection of employees, customers and particularly vulnerable persons in the retail sector from coronavirus infection. The concept was developed under the leadership of Peter Bruggmann, vice president of Fedas and president of the Swiss ...