All Italy articles – Page 3

  • MGM
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    Italian sports shoes maker M.G.M. acquires Gruppo Rekord

    2022-12-05T06:32:00Z

    Italian footwear manufacturer M.G.M. S.p.A. has acquired Gruppo Rekord, a producer of high-end sneakers and outdoor shoes. M.G.M. has been on the market for over 35 years in the segment of mountain and outdoor sports footwear, as well as roller skating, with distribution all over the world. M.G.N.’s brand portfolio ...

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    Dates for Prowinter 2023

    2022-12-02T15:07:00Z

    Prowinter, the B2B event for snow, rental and mountain innovation, is back in Bolzano with a new date. Prowinter 2023 will be a two-day event held Jan. 11 - 12, 2023. Explaining the new timings, Prowinter states: “Markets change quickly. This is just as true for the worlds of winter ...

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    Decathlon partners with Milano Premier Padel P1

    2022-12-01T08:57:00Z

    Decathlon Italy has announced a partnership with Milano Premier Padel P1 through its brand Kuikma. The tournament is scheduled to take place on Dec. 5-11 at the Allianz Cloud in Milan. Premier Padel is the official worldwide pádel circuit under the International Pádel Federation (FIP), supported by Professional Players Association ...

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    Consumer sentiment in Europe improves

    2022-11-25T16:38:00Z

    Consumer sentiment improved slightly in Germany, France and Italy, the three main economies of the European Union, but consumers remain cautious in a challenging economic environment. In December, German consumer sentiment is expected to rise by 1.7 points to -40.2 points from -41.9 points in November, according to the market ...

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    First Under Armour store in southern Italy

    2022-11-04T13:01:00Z

    Oberalp, the exclusive distributor of Under Armour in Italy, has opened an Under Armour store in Catania, Sicily, the first of the American brand in southern Italy. The new 120-square-meter store is located inside the Centro Sicilia shopping mall. The recent opening brings the number of Under Armour stores operated ...

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    Andrea Abodi is the minister of sports of Italy’s new government

    2022-10-24T10:26:00Z

    Andrea Abodi has been named the minister of sports and youth affairs in Giorgia Meloni’s new government. Meloni, who has succeeded Mario Draghi as Italy’s prime minister, and her cabinet took the oath before Italy’s president, Sergio Mattarella, on Oct. 22. Abodi’s appointment marks the return of a ministry of ...

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    Italy will probably have a Ministry of Sports

    2022-10-20T06:21:00Z

    Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), the party that won the latest parliamentary elections in Italy on Sept. 25, has declared that the new government will most likely include a Ministry of Sports in its own right, Gazzetta dello Sport has reported based on a radio interview. Outgoing Lazio regional councilor ...

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    The marketplace of the future: How Decathlon is opening up its sales platforms to boost revenue

    2022-10-04T05:04:00Z

    Decathlon has launched a number of “marketplaces” around the world, allowing other brands to sell their goods on the retailer’s sales platform, and expects to generate €1bn in sales over the next 5 years.

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    Consumer confidence at historic lows in Europe

    2022-10-04T05:03:00Z

    Consumer confidence has taken a dive in Europe. The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) has produced a flash estimate for September, according to which the indicator has “resumed its steep downward trend, dropping by 3.5 points in the EU and 3.8 points in the euro ...

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    Assosport warns of the impact of soaring energy costs

    2022-09-16T16:14:00Z

    Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, is raising the alarm about the consequences of soaring energy costs on the sector and consumer habits. Anna Ferrino, the association’s chairwoman, has called for governmental support for the Italian sporting goods industry. With energy prices rising by up to 500 percent, households ...

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    Decathlon Italy joins forces with Leroy Merlin on World Cleanup Day

    2022-09-15T05:55:00Z

    Decathlon Italy will team up with improvement and gardening retailer Leroy Merlin on the occasion of this year’s World Cleanup Day on Sep. 17. Employees from 130 of their stores will join forces with customers and other citizens on a series of initiatives organized by the two retailers across Italy ...

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    Inflation rates in the G20

    2022-08-08T10:50:00Z

    This exclusive interactive chart shows inflation rates for June and July 2022 for all members of the G20. The chart can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.

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    Adidas reportedly to replace New Balance as AS Roma technical partner

    2022-08-03T08:47:00Z

    The contract between New Balance and Italian football club A.S. Roma is due to expire at the end of the 2022/23 Serie A season. According to the Italian newspaper Il Tempo, the deal will not be extended, and Adidas is set to take over as a technical partner in a ...

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    Italy’s sports economy contributes €24.5 billion to national GDP, a 1.9% increase

    2022-07-25T06:44:00Z

    The contribution of the sports economy to Italy’s gross domestic product (GDP) is around €24.5 billion, namely 1.37 percent of the country’s total GDP, and a workforce of 420,000 people, according to a recent report by Istituto per il Credito Sportivo (ICS). The study titled Il PIL dello sport. La ...

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    Pandemic curbed organized sports in Italy, but physical activity is on the rise

    2022-07-19T13:05:00Z

    The number of registered sports participants in Italy dropped by 1,760,000 units in the 2019/20 period. The number of sports associations declined as well, with 5,166 of them shutting down during the two-year period. These are the key elements that emerge from I Numeri dello Sport 2019-2020 (Tr.: The Figures ...

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    Fila makes its comeback in Italian football

    2022-07-13T13:52:00Z

    Fila is the new technical sponsor of L.R. Vicenza, the Italian football club, based in Vicenza, beginning in 2022/23 and for three seasons. The deal marks Fila’s return to Italian football after a 20-year-long absence. The brand previously partnered with ACF Fiorentina, the professional club based in Florence, at the ...

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    An update on padel in Italy

    2022-06-23T06:03:00Z

    The number of padel facilities and courts in Italy continues to grow. According to data from Osservatorio Mr Padel Paddle, 479 new facilities and 1,219 courts have been set up since Jan. 1, bringing the total to 2,323 facilities and 5,908 courts nationwide. The increase has been 26 percent for ...

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    The 2024 Tour de France may not finish in Paris

    2022-06-10T12:33:00Z

    According to a report by Italian sports newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, widely cited in other international media, the 2024 Tour de France may not finish on Paris’ Champs-Elysées. It would be the first finish outside of Paris in the race’s long history. The first edition of the world’s greatest bicycle ...

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    Decathlon Italy appoints new CEO and opens first Decathlon City in Milan

    2022-06-08T10:28:00Z

    Augusto Felix is the new CEO of Decathlon Italy. He takes over the role of Fulvio Matteoni. Felix, who served as city leader of Decathlon Milano for the past year, has been with the company for more than 25 years. After starting with Decathlon France in Montesson in 1996, he ...

  • Bauer Hockey takes over PROSHARP with Schanner as distribution partner. Montana Sport as excl. machine service provider
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    Schanner to distribute Bauer’s Prosharp in four European markets

    2022-05-30T10:34:00Z

    After the Canadian hockey specialist Bauer Hockey acquired the Swedish company Prosharp AB, specializing in fully automatic grinding machines for skate blades, in August 2021, the company now announced that Schanner Eishockeyartikel GmbH + Co. KG will take over the distribution of Prosharp in Germany, Austria, Italy and Slovenia on ...