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News briefsVans opens new store in Milan
Vans has opened a three-story, 300-square-meter shop in Milan’s Via Orefici at the Orefici11 retail space, which also hosts brands like The North Face, Timberland and Napapijri. It is Vans’ 36th store in Italy and its fifth in Milan. Steve Van Doren, the son of Vans’ founder Paul Van Doren ...
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ArticleItaly’s sporting goods industry association says winter season has shown positive signs
Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, has described the past 2021/22 season as a positive one for winter sports after the dark period of the pandemic. Covid-19 forced to cancel virtually all activities from March 2020 until the end of 2021, with severe repercussions on the broader sector. Most ...
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Italy secures pádel tournament
The International Padel Federation (FIP), the Italian Tennis Federation (FIT) and Italy’s government sports agency (Sport e Salute) have signed a multi-year deal to establish Italy’s first majors tournament for pádel. The event is part of the world’s new official circuit, Premier Padel, under the management of FIP, the Professional ...
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News briefsAdidas names VP for Southern Europe
Adidas appointed Arnaud Jeangirard as vice president for Southern European markets (France, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula) earlier last month. Jeangirard has been with Adidas since 2016, first as director of the Adidas Originals, Yeezy and action sports in Dubai and then as the brand’s vice president for emerging markets. ...
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News briefsMove City Sport, a new multi-stakeholder event in Bergamo
The first edition of Move City Sport will take place in Bergamo, Italy on Oct. 18-19, 2022. This new trade show and cultural event is promoted by Associazione Impianti Sportivi (AIS), and is organized by Promoberg – Fiera di Bergamo, Fierecom & Events, Paysage – Landscape for Community, and MG ...
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ArticleThe Italian "sport system" accounts for 3.6% of the country’s GDP, new report says
The sport system in Italy is worth €95.9 billion, namely 3.6 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), and employs 389,000 people, according to a recent report by Banca Ifis. The study, presented on March 30 at the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) in Rome, represents the first edition of ...
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Italy focuses on bid to stage UEFA Euro 2032
The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has announced plans to host the UEFA Euro 2032. Italy, the winner of the 2021 tournament, had considered a bid for Euro 2028, but FIGC’s president Gabriele Gravina said a proposal to host the tournament in 2032 would allow more time to modernize stadiums across ...
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Italy’s growing sporting goods industry is becoming more sustainable
The Italian sporting goods industry raised its aggregate revenues by an estimated 8.4 percent to €12.2 billion in 2021, according to a survey conducted by its trade association, Assosport, among its 120 members, which market some 300 brands and employ 9,300 people, representing almost one third of the industry’s total ...
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ArticleNew threats for winter sports across the Alps
A lot of snow fell on the Alps during the first full week of December, driving many local ski fans to the slopes. However, the French ski resorts are worried about a big drop in reservations by foreign tourists, especially from the U.K., following a ban by the French government ...
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Infographics & DataTop 10 countries leading the global sports market in 2020
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
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
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
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
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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ArticleNPD measures the impact of Covid-19 in Europe and China
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
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 ...
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