All Health & Wellness articles – Page 5
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Cybex Reaches Outside Health Clubs
Sales fell at Cybex International by 18.9 percent of $29.0 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 26, while net income plunged by 76.2 percent to $81.0 million. Cardio equipment dropped by 15 percent to $16.4 million, while strength equipment weakened by 26 percent to $10.1 million. “Other” went down ...
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Bluesign Technologies, which sets the standard for sustainability, health, safety...
Bluesign Technologies, which sets the standard for sustainability, health, safety and fair working conditions, has added several companies that have signed its agreement: Long Advance International, Paltex Company, Utermost Dyeing & Finishing Company, and Ho Chien Enterprise Company, all of Taiwan; and Shanghai Challenge Textile Company and Shanghai Jiale Corporation. ...
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Jd Sports Reports A Healthy Year
Revenues at JD Sports Fashion for the year ended Jan. 31 increased by 13.3 percent to £670.9 million (€757.6m-$983.1m). The gross profit margin inched up by 0.1 percentage point to 49.3 percent, and the pre-tax profit grew by 9.1 percent to £38.2 million (€43.1m-$56.0m). The operating margin before extraordinary items ...
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Icon Health & Fitness is launching a partnership with Nike...
Icon Health & Fitness is launching a partnership with Nike and Apple that will make it possible for runners exercising on their home treadmills to take part in the Nike+ community. The Nike+ program enables runners to measure their performance through a chip inserted in a pair of Nike shoes ...
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Icon Health & Fitness recently filed a federal breach of...
Icon Health & Fitness recently filed a federal breach of contract suit in Utah against two competitors on the U.S. market, Horizon Fitness and Vision Fitness. The complaint alleges that both defendants have failed to pay royalty fees amounting to 6 percent of sales on fitness products that license an ...
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Auditors Question Jjb’S Health
Shares in JJB Sports, the U.K.’s second-largest sports retailer, crashed in London today after it unveiled unexpected half-year losses – and the financial situation has apparently grown so tense that JJB’s auditors questioned whether it could continue as a going concern. In spite of firm reassurances by the company, JJB’s ...
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An American health insurance company, VSP Vision Care, has acquired...
An American health insurance company, VSP Vision Care, has acquired Marchon, the big American eyewear group that holds the Nike optics license (more in EYEWEAR INTELLIGENCE.
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The New European sales director for Johnson Health Tech with...
The New European sales director for Johnson Health Tech with its brands Vision and Horizon is Burkhard Lüben, who used to be long-time general manager for Life Fitness Europe before he briefly worked for Johnson in the German-speaking countries as well as Cybex.
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Icon Health & Fitness has filed a lawsuit in California...
Icon Health & Fitness has filed a lawsuit in California against Octane Fitness of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, and Nellie’s Exercise Equipment of Corona, California. The action alleges that the two companies are infringing on two patents belonging to Icon: one for an exercise machine control system released in April 1992 ...
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Burkhard Lüben, 51, returns to Johnson Health Tech to act...
Burkhard Lüben, 51, returns to Johnson Health Tech to act as European sales director.
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Icon Health & Fitness has filed a patent infringement lawsuit...
Icon Health & Fitness has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Texas against Horizon Fitness and its parent company, Johnson Health Tech of Taiwan, Vision Fitness and Matrix Fitness Systems for allegedly infringing on three of its patents. The patents concerned are for its Exercise Machine Control System (patent # ...
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Icon Health & Fitness has been sued for patent infringement...
Icon Health & Fitness has been sued for patent infringement by Cybergym Research, a Texas-based company. The lawsuit alleges that Icon’s NordicTrack SL 760 iFit recumbent exercise bike, the NordicTrack C 2420 iFit treadmill and at least six other fitness machines infringe on its technology patents for “Force Script Implementation ...
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Icon Health & Fitness, which has not been doing well...
Icon Health & Fitness, which has not been doing well in Germany, is shutting down its German subsidiary in Düsseldorf. It was headed by Mark Richards, responsible also for the UK and recently promoted as European senior operations manager. Instead, the American fitness brand will work from July 2007 through ...
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Icon Health & Fitness’ consolidation of some of its production...
Icon Health & Fitness’ consolidation of some of its production in Utah will result in about 250 people losing their jobs in mid-March, when the company will close its factory in Clearfield and fold them into its facility in Logan. Icon is eliminating a total of 450 positions at its ...
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Icon Health & Fitness has applied for a patent on...
Icon Health & Fitness has applied for a patent on a system to integrate games into its fitness products, such as a GameFit console attached to its ProForm 20.0 elliptical, which allows the exerciser to play a “Fat Blocker” or a “Calorie Destroyer” game as a workout activity.
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Nordica and Icon Health & Fitness are again in a...
Nordica and Icon Health & Fitness are again in a legal dispute over trademark rights, as Nordica filed a complaint in a U.S. court stating that Icon breached a 3-year-old contract by continuing to pursue the NordicTrack trademark for certain items in some countries. In a 2003 settlement it was ...
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Icon Health & Fitness filed last month a lawsuit against...
Icon Health & Fitness filed last month a lawsuit against a rival company, Keys Fitness, and its subsidiary Keys Backyard LP, alleging that Keys infringed on its patent for home exercise devices. The complaint also claims that Keys is infringing on Icon’s Weslo trademark for items like exercise machines, skateboards ...
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Johnson Health Tech has promoted its managing director in Germany,...
Johnson Health Tech has promoted its managing director in Germany, Mathias Kiehn, as vice president of commercial sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In the USA, its Horizon Fitness subsidiary has made several appointments at its U.S. headquarters in DeForest, Wisconsin. Among others, Chris Wells, who comes from ...
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The French edition of Men’s Health has been stopped due...
The French edition of Men’s Health has been stopped due to insufficient circulation.
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Health Magazine has given the “Best of Fitness” award to...
Health Magazine has given the “Best of Fitness” award to illumiNITE’s “Aspira Softshell” jacket for women.
