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Intersport France has launched a new WeLoveSki pass that allows...
Intersport France has launched a new WeLoveSki pass that allows the holder to rent skis, snowboards, boots and ski poles throughout the snow season. The pass is sold exclusively by Intersport at www.intersport-rent.fr. The company will make available only 2,000 passes for this winter. The price for the pass is ...
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Schoeller Textil has won the Swiss Design Prize for its...
Schoeller Textil has won the Swiss Design Prize for its heated E-soft-shell fabric technology
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Puma has finalized a contract to be the official supplier...
Puma has finalized a contract to be the official supplier of the jerseys for the AC Milan team for five years, starting with the 2018/19 season, replacing Adidas ahead of schedule after a partnership of 20 years. Reportedly, the Leaping Cat will be paying an annual sponsorship fee of €12 ...
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Joma has announced a global online marketing campaign to congratulate...
Joma has announced a global online marketing campaign to congratulate its best tennis players of the year. At the end of the tennis season, the brand said it wanted to thank its sponsored tennis players for the results they achieved during the season. The campaign targets an audience aged between ...
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Pentland has been honored with the 22nd annual Global Family...
Pentland has been honored with the 22nd annual Global Family Business Award by IMD, a top-ranked business school. The group received the award on the occasion of the 28th Summit of the Family Business Network International (FBN-I), which took place in Gran Canaria on Nov. 8-11. The Global Family Business ...
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Three Norwegian sporting goods brands have been named winners of...
Three Norwegian sporting goods brands have been named winners of the prestigious DOGA design award by Design and Architecture organization in Oslo. Northern Playground was recognized for the design of its zipped collection of baselayers. The Bjørn Dæhlie brand of sports clothing won an award for its recent re-branding project ...
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Lewis Hamilton, the world champion in Formula One racing, will...
Lewis Hamilton, the world champion in Formula One racing, will be the face of Puma's new 24/7 campaign for men's training
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Nike signs up Kyle Edmund, a British tennis player ranked...
Nike signs up Kyle Edmund, a British tennis player ranked in 50th place, with a four-year contract reported to be worth £2 million a year
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Wilson has appointed a professional women's squash player, Nicol David,...
Wilson has appointed a professional women's squash player, Nicol David, to its advisory staff
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Icepeak will dress the Finnish team at next February's Winter...
Icepeak will dress the Finnish team at next February's Winter Olympic Games in South Korea
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Adidas is a winner of the second Stop Slavery Award,...
Adidas is a winner of the second Stop Slavery Award, an initiative by the Thomson Reuters Foundation to honor companies that have taken concrete steps to eradicate forced labor from their supply chains. Adidas leads a group of four winning companies which also includes C&A, Intel and The Co-Operative Group. ...
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Adidas outperforms in North America
The Adidas Group's expansion has been hampered by weakening retail trends in Europe and infrastructure bottlenecks in North America in the third quarter, leading to a sales increase at the lower end of its projection, but the company still delivered ample rises in sales and profits.The German group's turnover jumped ...
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Adidas appoints three European country managers
After the reshuffle implemented in the Adidas Group's European management structure nearly two months ago, the company has appointed three of its own staff as country managers in France, Iberia and Italy.Nicolas Favre has taken over at the start of this month as country manager in France. He joined the ...
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VF buys Icebreaker
VF Corp. has announced a definitive agreement for the takeover of Icebreaker Holdings, the merino wool apparel specialist from New Zealand. The transaction should be completed early next year. The price of the acquisition has not been disclosed, but VF said that it will be immediately accretive.Icebreaker will nicely complement ...
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Bruno Sälzer, supervisory board chairman at Amer Sports, has told...
Bruno Sälzer, supervisory board chairman at Amer Sports, has told Handelsblatt that the Finnish group wants to grow through organic expansion as well as acquisitions, for which it has “a few hundred million” euro at its disposal. The company owns 12 brands, and its latest acquisition was Armada, the U.S. ...
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Amer Sports is repurchasing up to 10,000 of its own...
Amer Sports is repurchasing up to 10,000 of its own shares until next March 7. Meanwhile, Bruno Sälzer, who was elected chairman of the board last March, has been buying shares in the company as well.
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Adidas has unveiled a new app that is meant to...
Adidas has unveiled a new app that is meant to deliver a personalized shopping experience. The Adidas Sports & Style app uses Salesforce technology including Commerce Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud. The app gets to know the consumer's preferences, and proposes personalized news stories, blog posts, articles, videos and ...
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Adidas announced on Instagram that it has teamed up with...
Adidas announced on Instagram that it has teamed up with N.E.R.D., an American funk rock band, to launch what it has called the Training Gear collection. The company indicates that the range was inspired from the styles of the band members Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shay Hayley. Williams already ...
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Adidas presented the official match ball for the 2018 World...
Adidas presented the official match ball for the 2018 World Cup in Moscow, in the presence of Lionel Messi. The Telstar 18 is a re-edition of Adidas' first match ball for the World Cup, which it developed for the tournament in Mexico in 1970.
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Schoeller Textil has won the Design Preis Schweiz 2017/18 in...
Schoeller Textil has won the Design Preis Schweiz 2017/18 in the textile category for its heated E-soft-shell. The award was announced in Langenthal, Switzerland on Nov. 3. According to Schoeller's description, E-soft-shell is an electrically heated fabric which can be cut to size without affecting the embedded technology. This technology ...
