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Kelme to replace Adidas as Watford’s kit sponsor
Kelme has signed a £10 million (€11.3m-$12.3m) kit deal with Watford, a professional football club that competes in the English Premier League. The news was first unveiled by The Athletic on May 10. The new four-year deal with the Spanish sports brand will replace the current contract with Adidas, which ...
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Former Nike manager works for the Higg Index
Higg Co., the developer of the Higg Index for the measurement of the sustainability of textile products, has hired Del Hudson, a former executive of Nike, as its new vice president of marketing and communications. Hudson spent 20 years at Nike on communication and sustainability at various locations. He then ...
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Acushnet posts lower-than-expected sales and profits
The first-quarter results of Acushnet, the American golf company controlled by Fila Korea, did not meet analysts’ expectations. Sales declined by 5.8 percent to $408.7 million, or by 4.6 percent in constant currencies, due to a decrease in Titleist golf ball sales and FootJoy golf wear, hampered by Covid-19. As ...
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Nike supports new wastewater management training
Nike is collaborating with the ZDHC Roadmap to Zero Programme and the Water Environment Federation (WEF) on a new training program that aims to improve water and wastewater management in the textile supply chains around the world. The organizations are collaborating on further developing the WEF training manual, exams and ...
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Arc’teryx places a creative Adidas veteran in a top new position
Katie Becker has joined Arc’teryx Equipment as the Canadian outdoor brand’s first vice president in charge of creative operations. Becker comes from Adidas, where she had worked for 12 years, most recently as senior global design director. Prior to that, she held various design positions at Merrell, Helly Hansen and ...
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Sun Mountain launches golf bags made from recycled plastic bottles
Sun Mountain, the American brand of golf bags, carts and apparel, has introduced a new range of bags made from recycled plastic bottles. It takes around 25 recycled half-liter plastic bottles to form the fabric of each Eco-Lite stand bag, while it takes 30 to make the cart bag in ...
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GoPro’s sales are cut by more than half
In line with its previous warning, GoPro reported a turnover of $119 million in the first quarter, more than half the $243 million level of the year-ago period. The transition to a more efficient and profitale direct-to-consumer model reduced operating expenses mitigating the decline in the gross margin, which was ...
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Puma posts a 1.5% drop in Q1
Doing better than some competitors, Puma reported sales declines of only 1.5 percent in euros and 1.3 percent in local currencies during the first quarter, leading to a 61.6 percent drop in net earnings to €36.2 million on sales of €1,299.8 million, although the company started the year with an ...
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Umbro to replace Canterbury as England Rugby’s kit supplier
Umbro will be the new kit supplier for England Rugby in a new four-year deal, effective Sept. 1. It will be the first involvement with professional rugby for Umbro, which will take over from Canterbury of New Zealand, a brand owned by Pentland that has been England Rugby’s official ...
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Nike donates products for Covid-19 relief
Nike is donating about 140,000 pieces of footwear, apparel and equipment – worth $5.5 million – to hospitals and clinics in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Medical personnel at the Veterans Health Administration and at hospitals in Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis and New York City will be receiving 30,000 pairs ...
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Fitbit returns to profits thanks to U.S. coronavirus aid
Despite a difficult first quarter, with sales hit by the Covid-19 crisis, Fitbit managed to return to profit. It was helped by a $145 million tax benefit from operating loss carrybacks as part of a government program to help companies through the coronavirus pandemic. Net income reached $20.3 million, compared ...
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Decathlon inks deals with marketplaces
As it has already done with Kant, one of the major multi-brand sports retailers in Russia, Decathlon has embarked on an unusual cooperation with a major Russian e-tailer, Ozon, which is pushing its own marketplace. The highly verticalized French sports retailer has announced a contract with Ozon to sell 1,500 ...
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Allbirds introduces its first running shoe
Going in the same direction as Veja, the French brand of sustainable footwear that launched its first running shoes at the Ispo show in Munich earlier this year, Allbirds, the brand that focuses on environment-friendly footwear, has now released its first running shoe. The Tree Dasher is made from sugarcane, ...
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Canada Goose partners with bluesign
Canada Goose has announced its commitment to reach 90 percent bluesign approved fabrics by 2025. The pledge is part of the Canada Goose’s Sustainable Impact Strategy. The brands who commit to being a bluesign system partner have their supply chain thoroughly assessed to ensure that their products and processes meet ...
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Nike releases its first indoor cycling shoe
Nike is launching its first indoor cycling shoe, at a time when an unprecedently large number of people are working at home. The SuperRep Cycle is the newest release from the Nike SuperRep footwear family, which also includes the Air Zoom SuperRep and the SuperRep Go. The new Nike SuperRep ...
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Intersport España reports 500% increase in online sales for April
Intersport España, which reopened its e-commerce site on March 21, has just announced a 500 percent year-on-year increase in online sales for the month of April. The Covid-19 quarantine has catapulted the home fitness category to the forefront. Yoga mats, fitness bands, chin-up bars, dumbbells and the like accounted for ...
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Forbes declares Kanye West a billionaire
Forbes has declared Kanye West a billionaire. The American financial magazine attributes the American rap singer’s success chiefly to the Yeezy brand of footwear and apparel, which is developed and marketed in collaboration with Adidas. Forbes featured West on the cover of its issue for Aug. 31, 2019, but had ...
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An excellent quarter for Garmin in Outdoor and Fitness
Garmin’s fitness division had a stellar performance in the first quarter. Revenues in this segment soared by 24 percent to $180.3 million, as the group benefited from the home fitness boom due to the lockdowns in place in many countries. Sales were driven by advanced wearables and Tacx indoor bike ...
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Intersport and Decathlon offer drive-in click & collect
Both Intersport and Decathlon have set up a form of “drive-in click and collect” service in France, calling it simply “drive.” Customers place their order online and collect the merchandise in the parking lot of their local store, receiving it directly at their car with maximum distancing. Intersport, which reopened ...
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Intersport reports rising online sales in Germany
Intersport Germany has announced that about two-thirds of the customers who have a made a purchase on its online store in the last couple of weeks made another purchase at a later point. About 370 affiliated retailers are already connected to the platform, achieving sales in a range around €50 ...
