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Puma launches its lightest football jersey
Puma has introduced what it describes as the lightest football jersey in the company’s history, weighing in at 72 grams. Called dryCELL, it is made of what the German company calls Ultraweave, whose two-dimensional ripstop structure combines recycled polyester, pattern construction and trimmings to produce a stretch in four directions. ...
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Signa Sports United to launch AI-based virtual bike fitting engine
Signa Sports United (SSU), the German-based sports e-commerce platform that owns several websites for the sale of bicycles, has entered a strategic partnership with Motesque, a specialist startup for biomechanics, computer vision and AI, to launch what they claim will be the first biomechanical AI-based virtual bike fitting engine ...
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Canada Goose gets an upgrade on its debt rating
Standard & Poor’s has upgraded its debt rating for Canada Goose to positive from stable, following its better-than-expected operating performance. The company’s results for the financial year ended March 31 indicated an adjusted debt-to-Ebitda ratio of 2.8 times, according to S&P, compared with a previous forecast of more than four ...
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Lululemon launches a Centre for Social Impact initiative
Lululemon announced the launch of its Centre for Social Impact, a new initiative intended to support the physical, mental and social wellbeing of more than ten million people globally by 2025 through an investment of $75 million into “Equitable Wellbeing Programs.” The focus will be on communities that are most ...
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Brazilian surf brand incorporates Polygiene treatment
Oceano Surfwear has incorporated Polygiene’s Stay Fresh anti-odor treatment into a shirt collection, called Legends, developed in cooperation with a Brazilian surfing champion, Everaldo “Pato” Teixeira. The shirts, says Polygiene, “come with a guarantee that you can wear more and wash less – lightening the load on our planet and ...
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Gym+Coffee releases sleep aid
Gym+Coffee is releasing a special “mindfulness audio” recording for guided sleep in connection with World Mental Day, with a script written by an extreme sleeping adventurer, Phoebe Smith, and narration by one of the Irish athleisure brand’s ambassadors, the singer Niall Horan. Gym+Coffee says it conducted a survey of 4,500 ...
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ArticlePon Holdings acquires Dorel Sports
The Dutch Pon Holdings group and the Canadian conglomerate Dorel Industries officially announced on Oct. 11 that Pon.Bike (brands Cervélo, Focus, Gazelle, Juliana, Kalkhoff, Santa Cruz, Union, etc.) will acquire Dorel Sports (brands Cannondale, Caloi, GT, Mongoose, Schwinn, etc.). According to the two parties, this mammoth marriage will create “a ...
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Adidas inaugurates a circular-fashion program with ThredUp
Adidas has inaugurated a circular-fashion program, called “Choose to Give Back.” The German brand is inviting customers to earn rewards from its Creator’s Club by returning used apparel and accessories from any brand for resale or re-use. It works through a combination of Adidas’ Creator’s Club app and ThredUp’s Reseale-as-a-Service ...
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Moncler is developing an interesting new HQ in post-pandemic style in Milan
Moncler plans to concentrate its Milanese employees, currently spread over three sites, into a new headquarters, to be refurbished and delivered by the end of 2024. To this end, the Italian luxury skiwear and outerwear brand has announced a 15-year pre-letting agreement with Convivio. The building is located in the ...
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iFIT drops its planned IPO, Allbirds revises it
Allbirds has revised its proposals for an initial public offering, and iFIT Health & Fitness has postponed its plans to go public, citing “adverse market conditions.” Meanwhile, an acquisitive American maker of camp stove, Solo Brands, has filed an application for an IPO with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission ...
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Superdry sponsors its local football club
According to Fashion Network, Superdry is sponsoring its local football club, the Forest Green Rovers of England’s EFL League Two. Like the British apparel brand, the Rovers are based in the county of Gloucestershire, but they also happen to be, according to FIFA, the world’s first and only vegan football ...
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Asics invests in Bisu
Asics Corp. has announced that its venture capital subsidiary, Asics Venture Corp., has made an investment in Bisu, a start-up that is developing a “home health lab.” Called “Bisu Body Coach,” the lab gives personalized nutrition and lifestyle advice by testing urine and saliva at home. Synchronizing with its smartphone-based ...
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News briefsBoa’s new dial platform wins design award
Boa Technology has won its second Design & Innovation Award (DI.A), after the one it won in 2016 for its IP1-S platform. The winning product is its Li2 dial platform, a bayonet and cartridge system – like the L6 platform – made mostly of anodized aluminum. Introduced this autumn, ...
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Blackroll partners with the German Tennis Federation
A Swiss-based supplier specializing in sports preparation and recovery products, Blackroll, is the newest partner of the German Tennis Federation (DTB). With immediate effect, Blackroll will equip all four DTB national bases in Hanover, Kamen, Stuttgart and Oberhaching with products from the areas of activation and regeneration. This is intended ...
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New Canada Goose campaign for the brand’s first two boots
For its first small collection of footwear, Canada Goose has put together a marketing campaign, called “Forces of Nature,” featuring the footballer Romeo Beckham, the indigenous artist and activist Sarain Fox, and the indigenous leader and hockey player Jordin Tootoo. In a film – with the wilderness of Squamish and ...
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ArticleTechnogym teams up with Dior
In its first move of the kind to support its upmarket image, Technogym has partnered with the creative team at the Christian Dior fashion house to develop an exclusive, limited-edition line of home fitness products. The stylish, black and white line includes a treadmill, a multi-function bench and a wellness ...
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New winter sports logistics center for Amer in Austria
Amer Sports has opened a new, more modern and sustainable logistic center for the winter sports products of Atomic, Salomon and Armada at Pongau, near the group’s Austrian ski production facility in Altenmarkt. The group has invested €23 million to modernize Atomic’s former distribution center and to expand it by ...
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French court clears Bernard Tapie
In view of his death on Sunday Oct. 3, the Paris Court of Appeals has decided to “extinguish” all pursuits against Bernard Tapie in the case that pitted him against a French bank, Crédit Lyonnais, that helped him to finance Adidas’ takeover. The issue revolved around a sum of €403,000 ...
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Additional appointments at Bollé Brands
Bollé Brands, the French-based parent company of Bollé, Cébé and Serengeti, has further strengthened the management of its Sport & Luxury Division by hiring other industry veterans, in addition to those that we have already reported about, including Quentin Chaplein. Corentin Daniel, who worked for 17 years as an engineer ...
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News briefsZellerfeld and Heron Preston 3D-print a fully circular sneaker
The 3D-printing company Zellerfeld and the eponymous streetwear brand Heron Preston have introduced what they call the first fully 3D-printed shoe on the retail market. The Heron01 is now available on StockX in three colorways. Made of a single material, the sneaker dispenses with seams, stitching, glues and traditional factories. ...
