Latest Short Stops – Page 4
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Short Stops Week 9, 2023
EXECUTIVE CHANGES +++ Superdry has announced the appointment of Lysa Hardy, who serves as chief marketing officer and executive director at Hotel Chocolat, to the Superdry board as an independent non-executive director, effective May 1, 2023 +++ European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) has announced that Jacques Raynaud, currently CEO of ...
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Short Stops Week 8, 2023
PRODUCT & MARKETING +++ 13 years after launching its CloudTec technology, Swiss sports brand On takes its running technology to the next level, equipping the new Cloudsurfer with the new CloudTec Phase technology, designed to even enhance the feeling of “running on clouds“ +++ Puma has signed a multi-year contract ...
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Short Stops Week 7, 2023
PRODUCT & MARKETING +++ Adidas has unveiled the UWCL Pro Ball Eindhoven, the official match ball for the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League knockout stages and final +++ Galvin Green has announced six-time DP World Tour winner and 2018 Ryder Cup player Thorbjørn Olesen as a new member of its ...
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Short Stops Week 6, 2023
RETAIL & DISTRIBUTION +++ Golf retailer American Golf has become the official New Balance Golf UK retail partner, exclusively stocking a range of men’s and women’s golf shoes both online and across its stores +++ On March 1, after over three years with distributor 2pure, Coros Wearables wll be ...
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Short Stops Week 5, 2023
RETAIL & DISTRIBUTION +++ JD Sports has opened 673- and 345-sqm stores in the airports of Madrid and Barcelona respectively, raising its total points of sale in Spain to 92 +++ The Spanish specialty retailer Futbol Emotion has invested €450,000 in a new, 418-sqm store in Barcelona, raising its total ...
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Short Stops Week 4, 2023
EXECUTIVE CHANGES +++ Event registration and fundraising platform Racenation has appointed Tom Kerry as head of partnerships +++ Garry Cook, the former Manchester City chief executive, has been appointed as the new executive president and CEO of the Saudi Pro League +++ Premier League club Southampton FC has appointed Charlie ...
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Short Stops Week 3, 2023
LEGAL & INSTITUTIONAL +++ Meta’s supervisory board on Jan. 17 called for a revision of the company’s rules, which ban pictures of bare-chested women on Facebook and Instagram, but not those of topless men +++ UNICEF UK has announced the formation of a Sport Advisory Board, which will take ...
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Short Stops Week 2, 2023
CORPORATE AND M&A +++ Naver, Korea’s largest internet company, has completed the acquisition of online fashion resale company Poshmark +++ British sportswear brand Castore has announced that it has increased the size of its credit facility by £25 million (€28.3m), bringing financial support from all three existing lenders – ...
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Short Stops Week 1, 2023
LEGAL & INSTITUTIONAL +++ Extending its circuit north, the World Padel Tour will from Aug. 30 to Sept. 3 be holding its first tournament (if not its first matches) in Finland, a country of 5.5 million inhabitants, 60,000 pádel players and 650 pádel courts CORPORATE & ...
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Short Stops Week 52, 2022
PRODUCT & MARKETING +++ Goodr, a California-based brand that has become known for its $25 active sunglasses, has developed a pair of snow goggles called Snow G for skiers and snowboarders that cost only $75 and are available through goodr.com and select retailers in the U.S. +++ The 32-year-old ...
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Short Stops Week 51, 2022
RETAIL & DISTRIBUTION +++ Drapers reported that footwear brand Ugg is reportedly going to remove its products from the shelves of independent retailers in the U.K. as early as next year as the group looks to focus its business on big-box retailers +++ Union Binding Company and CAPiTA Snowboarding have ...
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Short Stops Week 50, 2022
LEGAL & INSTITUTIONAL +++ The ATP has placed a $1 million fine on U.K.’s Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) for banning Russian and Belarusian players from tournaments this year in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine +++ Donata Hopfen has resigned from her role as CEO of the German Football ...
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Short Stops Week 49, 2022
LEGAL & INSTITUTIONAL +++ The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has reconfirmed Andreas Zagklis as its secretary general until 2031, a role he has held since Dec. 2018 +++ Patrick Hickey has resigned from the executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for health reasons CORPORATE AND M&A +++ ...
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Short Stops Week 48, 2022
CSR & SUSTAINABILITY +++ Pádel Nuestro and Marta Ortega Gallego – the current number-five pádel player on the World Padel Tour’s women’s ranking – are taking part in the fifth annual “Regala Sonrisas [Give the Gift of Smiles]” toy drive for children in the hospitals of Madrid +++ Nautica, ...
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Short Stops Week 47, 2022
RETAIL & DISTRIBUTION +++ Decathlon has opened a 300-square-meter store in Chambéry, an Alpine town in southeast France, located at 4 rue Bonivard +++ Nike opened Nike Aventura in Miami, Florida, the first Nike Rise store in the U.S., after testing the retail concept in Guangzhou, China, in 2020 ...
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Short Stops Week 46, 2022
RETAIL & DISTRIBUTION +++ U.S. Soccer has signed a multi-year renewal of its deal with Legends to manage the national governing body’s retail operations +++ Puma has opened a new 1,000-sqm store in Martinez, a city in the province of Buenos Aires, the brand’s largest store in Latin America ...
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Short Stops Week 45, 2022
PRODUCT & MARKETING +++ New Balance and streetwear brand Aries have teamed up on a collaboration for Serie A club AS Roma that includes three custom jerseys, a pre-game jacket, pants and jersey, as well as a limited-edition jersey that portrays some of Rome’s iconic figures, including Julius Caesar, ...
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Short Stops Week 44, 2022
RETAIL & DISTRIBUTION +++ Gymshark is opening its first-ever store on Saturday, Oct. 29, in London’s Regent Street +++ Intersport Wawrok has reopened its 1,000-square-meter renovated store at the Forum Köpenick in Berlin and, right next door, a 170-square-meter Pace sneaker store, the third outlet in Michael Wawrok’s specialty ...
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Short Stops Week 43, 2022
RETAIL & DISTRIBUTION +++ Decathlon has opened its first store in a university, in the physical education and sports pavilion at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada +++ AlphaTauri, Red Bull’s premium lifestyle fashion brand, continues its global retail expansion with the opening of a flagship store in ...
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Short Stops Week 42, 2022
CORPORATE AND M&A +++ French sports nutrition brand Baouw has raised €2 million in a new funding round led by Seventure Partners +++ According to ShopEatSurf, Boardriders has sold the beachfront Billabong House on Oahu’s North Shore, which has always been a focal point for the brand during the ...
