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Anta develops its first graphene-enhanced garment
Anta has developed its first graphene-enhanced garment, the A-Flame down jacket, in collaboration with researchers at Xiamen University. Graphene is used in the jacket to radiate far infrared rays and help keep the wearer warm in cold temperatures. The company said that it plans to use graphene in a wide ...
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Asics launches Tokyo-inspired collection of footwear and apparel
Asics is launching a new Tokyo-inspired collection of footwear and apparel to celebrate its Japanese heritage. The collection features two lines, Retro Tokyoand Modern Tokyo, and comprises multiple categories, including running, volleyball, tennis and sportstyle. The design of the collection is inspired by Japanese culture and craftsmanship, with breathable panels ...
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UA discontinues UA Record app
Under Armour will pull UA Record out of the market at the end of March, encouraging users of its mobile app for fitness workouts to transition to the company’s MapMyFitness app, which is launching a new feature, Workout Routines. By Dec. 31, 2019, UA Record had already been removed from ...
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Clariant partners with FFE on color project
Clariant, the color expert and manufacturer, has partnered with Francesco Franceschetti Elastomeri (FFE) on an in-depth research and color-finding project that has led to a solution for high-end ski boot application. Early in the summer of 2019, Clariant and FFE joined forces on an exhaustive study of the Italian ski ...
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Andreas Heep leaves Adidas
Andreas Heep, senior director of sales for fashion products in Central Europe at Adidas, has left the company at his own request, after working there for 22 years. He is said to want to follow new projects in the future. His successor is Philip Clas, who has been with the ...
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Anllian Capital is issuing convertible bonds
Anllian Capital – a special-purpose investment vehicle belonging to Anta Sports Products that directly or indirectly owns just over 59 percent of Amer Sports through the Mascot Bidco consortium – is issuing convertible bonds with a zero coupon worth €1 billion. Issued at a price 0.25 percent higher than the ...
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OpinionWhy 2020 could be the year Amazon becomes unstoppable
From infiltrating the pharma business to owning the internet, the Amazon juggernaut will be flexing its muscle with broad implications.
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ArticlePentland buys Speedo’s North American business
Pentland announced yesterday that it has agreed to buy the perpetual rights to the Speedo brand in North America and the Caribbean and the related operations from PVH Corp. for $170 million in cash, uniting all the brand’s operations around the world under a common umbrella just in time for ...
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ArticleRussia’s Sportmaster buys the Danish chain by the same name
Sport Danmark, the company that owns the Danish loss-making Sportmaster chain of sporting goods stores, was sold on Dec. 23 by Nordic Capital to a company in Singapore, Sportmaster Operations Pte., created by the Russian Sportmaster Group in 2012 to oversee its development in China and to conduct acquisitions in ...
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ArticleSportmaster reportedly emerges in Uzbekistan
The leading Russian sporting goods retailer is to open three stores in Uzbekistan, starting in March, in three of its shopping malls in Uzebistan’s capital city of Tashkent, said a local real estate operator, The Tower MMG. The new stores will occupy 1,100 to 1,270 square meters each.
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ArticleAnother new chief executive for XXL
After issuing yet another profit warning for the fourth quarter of 2019, the board of directors of XXL ASA announced earlier this week that it has appointed Pål Wibe as the new chief executive of the company, which is the largest sporting goods retailer in the Nordic countries.
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ArticleDecathlon Germany will open a third logistics center and its largest store
After 16 new store openings in 2019, Decathlon Germany ended a very successful year with a total of 80 doors, compared with only 26 at the end of 2015. More or less until 2010, the French retailer had a tough time in the market, due in part to its disruptive ...
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ArticleAdidas launches a skiwear line
Confirming a report in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Adidas says it is planning to enter the snow sports market with a line of winter sports apparel for cross-country and alpine skiing, ski touring and snowboarding for the autumn/winter 2020/21 season. It will be launched under its growing sub-brand for outdoor products, Adidas ...
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Thule acquires a fishing rod carrier
The Thule Group has acquired Denver Outfitters, an American producer of vehicle-mounted fishing-rod carriers.
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ArticleNike and Adidas trigger distinct emotions
In an interesting exercise, CMDsport has pitted the top two sports brands against each other in a survey of 5,491 Spaniards who read its publications. At stake were the “emotions” that these brands inspire. The Spanish trade paper developed a list of 34 such emotions or perceptions and asked participants ...
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Adidas has announced the start of the third tranche of...
Adidas has announced the start of the third tranche of its multi-year share buyback program, which calls for the purchase of up to €3.0 billion worth of its own shares between March 2018 and May 2021. It is planning to purchase own shares worth up to €1.0 billion in 2020. ...
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Adidas has reached a negotiated settlement with Rick Pitino, the...
Adidas has reached a negotiated settlement with Rick Pitino, the former coach of Louisville University’s basketball team who was fired in 2017 over a bribery scandal, ESPN has reported. Pitino claimed to have no knowledge of a deal under which James Gatto, a former sports marketing executive of Adidas, and ...
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Polartec has introduced a lighter version of its two-year-old Power...
Polartec has introduced a lighter version of its two-year-old Power Air fabric. Houdini of Sweden is the first and only company to have adopted it so far for its autumn/winter 2020/21 collection. The polyester fabric is made from a single yarn. It is fully recyclable and has a higher recycled ...
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Asics has unveiled the prototype of its first smart shoe,...
Asics has unveiled the prototype of its first smart shoe, developed in close partnership with New Fold Studio (nnf). The announcement was made at CES 2020, the Las Vegas tradeshow on consumer technologies, whose latest edition ran on Jan. 7-10. Nnf is a Japanese start-up pioneering the use of sensor ...
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Adidas has launched new laceless footwear for tennis players. The...
Adidas has launched new laceless footwear for tennis players. The new Stycon shoe, whose silhouette does not look like the typical tennis sneaker, is said to offer optimized comfort for wearers thanks to improved fit and control. The shoe has no shoelaces and a knit collar, designed to naturally expand ...
