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Top 10 countries leading the global sports market in 2020

2021-10-21T11:54:00Z

This exclusive interactive chart shows total market size of sporting goods in the U.S., China, Germany, Japan, France, the U.K., Canada, South Korea, India and Italy for the year 2020. The chart can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.

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Assosport expects Tokyo 2020 to boost Italy-Japan trade, despite the pandemic

2021-07-29T10:23:00Z

Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, has emphasized the importance of the Games for the industry, despite the restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, notably the absence of spectators at the events. The Olympics nevertheless provide a special showcase for companies to present their products to the rest of ...

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RiminiWellness opens ticket sales for live event

2021-07-26T06:41:00Z

The organizers of RiminiWellness have announced that online ticket sales are officially open for the 15th edition of the show, which is scheduled to take place as a physical event on Sept. 24-26 at Rimini Expo Center in Rimini, on Italy’s Adriatic coast. RiminiWellness is the Italian Exhibition Group’s (IEG) ...

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Italian mountain areas call for a dedicated ministry

2021-02-25T17:58:00Z

Italy’s Unione Nazionale Comuni Comunità Enti Montani (Uncem), the national organization of mountain municipalities, is calling for the creation of a new post of minister or undersecretary for mountain areas – “Ministero alla Montagna e alle Aree Interne” (Minister for the Mountains and Internal Areas), it suggested. The new government ...

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Italy blocks the reopening of ski lifts

2021-02-16T17:49:00Z

Ski resorts were supposed to reopen in Italy on Monday, Feb. 15, but the Italian Health Minister, Roberto Speranza, abruptly signed a decree on Sunday, extending the ban on recreational ski resorts until at least March 5, in connection with the spread of the British variant of the coronavirus across ...

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NPD measures the impact of Covid-19 in Europe and China

2020-07-04T06:29:00Z

The NPD Group estimates that there was a drop of around 24 percent in sales of sports shoes during the first half of 2020 in Germany, France, Italy and Spain – the four European countries where it uses a retail panel of multi-sport specialty stores, combined with sell-out data from ...

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Lotto’s holding company is in rough legal waters

2018-12-04T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, an Italian court has accepted a request to place in bankruptcy proceedings Futura 5760, a holding company that indirectly controls Lotto Sport Italia. Futura, which is controlled by Andrea Tomat, president and chief executive of Lotto, owns 27 percent of Lotto’s shares and 70 percent of Next B, which ...