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New Balance wins a case against a Chinese firm
New Balance has won in a copyright case against New Barlun, a Chinese firm that was using an “N” symbol that resembled New Balance’s signature logo on shoes and apparel. The Shanghai Pudong People’s Court has ordered New Barlun to pay damages of 10.8 million yuan (US$1.54 million) to New ...
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New Balance settles lawsuit against Nautica
The trademark infringement lawsuit that New Balance filed in Massachusetts in August 2019 against Authentic Brands Group over use of the letter “N” on footwear and apparel by the brand Nautica has been settled. All claims against Nautica have been dismissed without prejudice, and each party will be covering its ...
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Spanish sports retailer calls Spain’s rent forgiveness insufficient
CMDsport reports that the owner of Base Deportes Santa Gema, Francisco Torrejón, deems the Spanish government’s moratorium on rents “insufficient,” as it doubly excludes companies like his own. Decreed on April 21, the moratorium applies to independent workers and, more pertinently, to SMEs with no more than €6 million in ...
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Catalonia prepares plan to reintroduce sports
Spain has been one of the European countries that has been most affected by the novel coronavirus. Gerard Figueras, secretary general of sports and physical activity for the autonomous region of Catalonia, has told CMDsport that its government hopes to lift the Covid-19 quarantine of children on April 27 and ...
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Fibo’s event director joins EuropeActive’s board
At its general assembly this month – held online to comply with Covid-19 quarantine – EuropeActive appointed Silke Frank, event director for the fitness trade show Fibo, to its board of directors. Frank joins Alfonso Jiménez of Ingesport Go Fit, Jennifer Halsall of Basic-Fit International and Ana Damaso of Portugal ...
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Fesi surveys the effect of Covid-19 on the industry
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) has surveyed its members to determine the extent of the Covid-19 pandemic’s effects on them and the sporting goods industry. In short, it has found that the pandemic has cut revenues considerably and that e-commerce, while more important than ever, has ...
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Spanish retailers petition the government for rent relief
CMDsport reports that seven trade organizations – the Spanish Confederation of Commerce (CEC); the Spanish Association of Buying Groups (Anceco); the retail, service and restaurant associations Amicca, Comertia, Acotex and Eurelia; and the Spanish Federation of Home Appliance Merchants (Fece) – have submitted a formal letter to the Spanish government ...
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Fesi guides members through the Covid-19 crisis
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, Fesi, has created a Covid-19 Task Force to collect all kinds of information on what the European Commission and member governments of the European Union are doing in terms of regulations and financial help to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus and ...
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Egyptian sportswear industry
The Egyptian sportswear manufacturing industry will be supported by a project, led by the International Trade Centre (ITC), that is supposed to create jobs and boost exports. The project is funded by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) of the Swiss Confederation and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency ...
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Wolverine fined in Michigan
Wolverine Worldwide has agreed to pay $69.5 million to local authorities and the state of Michigan over several years to remedy water contamination from chemicals used in a now-closed tannery and other company-owned facilities in the state. On the other hand, WWW will get $55 million in a lump sum ...
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Tokyo Olympics are postponed, other sports events cancelled
(Updated on March 24) It’s now official. The Olympic Games will not be held in Tokyo this summer. A joint statement made by the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, and the Prime Minister of Japan, Abe Shinzo, said that they will have to be rescheduled “to ...
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Brooks Brothers countersues
Brooks Brothers has reacted to Brooks Sports’ suit (see our previous issue) by launching a countersuit, claiming that the latter may use the “Brooks” name alone only for athletic footwear, whereas the clothing company can use the “Brooks” name alone for all other kinds of products, including sports apparel, sports ...
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Russian government postpones shoe tagging
Russia’s Prime Minister, Alexey Mishustin, has postponed the compulsory tagging of footwear in the domestic market from March 1 to July 1, according to a decree posted on the Russian government’s website on March 3.
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ArticleForced labor in China for some sports brands?
Several Chinese factories under foreign contract appear to be resorting to forced labor from ethnic minorities. The suspicion stems from a report on the plight of China’s Uyghurs and other minorities recently released by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) – a self-described non-partisan think tank founded in 2001 to ...
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Afydad pitches a pádel lobby
On Feb 25, at Madrid’s Instituto de Comercio Exterior, the Spanish Association of Sporting Goods Manufacturers and Distributors (Afydad) pitched what it called the International Pádel Cluster (CIP) to a gathering of about 60 professionals with ties to the sport. The CIP’s objective would be to federate the various companies ...
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Adidas changes its practices in Spain
Adidas has avoided a fine from the Spain’s National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) in exchange for voluntary changes to its franchising policy. The commission opened an inquiry after a franchisee in Spain accused the company of anti-competitive practices in November 2018. In essence, Adidas had different contracts in ...
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Patagonia sues over apparent “Petrogonia” parody
Patagonia has filed suit in Los Angeles federal court against OC Media for trademark infringement, unfair competition and other violations of the Lanham Act. Open Caucasus Media, as it is formally called, is a Russian-language news website covering the North and South Caucasus. Its funders include the European Endowment for ...
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Wolverine settles over contaminated water
Wolverine has agreed to pay $69.5 million to local authorities and the state of Michigan over several years to remedy water contamination from chemicals used in a now-closed tannery and other company-owned facilities in the state. On the other hand, WWW will get $55 million in a lump sum from ...
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Nike hits counterfeiters via their customs brokers
Nike has filed suit against some of its customs brokers in the U.S. – B&H Customs Services, Hana Freight and Shine Shipping – alleging their use of fake documents and a stolen corporate identity to get four containers filled with counterfeit merchandise past customs. One of these, recently seized in ...
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Nike wins case against Avenatti
Michael Avenatti – the California lawyer who rose to prominence representing an American stripper, Stormy Daniels, in a failed lawsuit against Donald Trump – has been found guilty of extortion, wire fraud and transmission of interstate communications with intent to extort in New York federal court. The plaintiff is Nike, ...
