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Deporvillage returns as La Vuelta’s official online store
Spanish sports e-tailer Deporvillage and Unipublic, the organizer of La Vuelta, have signed a collaboration agreement that makes the online sports equipment retailer the official online store of the most important race in the Spanish cycling calendar for the next three years. Deporvillage will sell the four leader’s jerseys made ...
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News briefsAbout You, Yoox Net-A-Porter and Zalando team up on climate action learning platform
About You, Yoox Net-A-Porter and Zalando are joining forces on a bespoke learning platform to support their brand partners in setting climate targets aligned with science, intending to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The customized program, designed to explain the value and process of climate targets, will be available to ...
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News briefsMunich to supply its boots to the referees of the Spanish Football Federation
Munich, the Spanish brand specializing in sports and fashion shoes, has agreed on a new partnership deal with the Real Federación Española de Fútbol (Royal Spanish Football Federation). The brand will supply its football boots to the referees in the Primera (top-tier) and Segunda divisions of men’s and women’s professional ...
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News briefsNHL to end kit contract with Adidas after 2023/24 season
The NHL (U.S. National Hockey League) has announced that it will not continue its contract with Adidas as jersey sponsor after the 2023/24 season. The contract between the NHL and Adidas had a term of seven years. Starting with the 2017/18 season, the Herzogenaurach-based company had replaced Reebok, which had ...
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ArticlePádel meets domotics
Smart Padel Automation has established a (non-exclusive) partnership with Playtomic to deliver a package of services that could render pádel clubs all but automatic and relieve them of the need for staff. Established in January and headquartered in Madrid, Smart Padel derives its tech from a ten-year-old Galician company called ...
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News briefsPeloton announces corporate wellness program
Peloton announced the expansion of its Peloton Corporate Wellness program, unveiled in June 2021, through which Peloton content or connected fitness products can be offered to companies and organizations in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Germany, with Australia joining later this year. The offering makes all Peloton experiences available to ...
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News briefsAsics‘ new 3D-printed regeneration sandal sells out
Asics has launched the new Actibreeze™ 3D sandal, an innovative 3D-printed sandal designed to support the “body and mind recovery” of athletes in the after-performance phase. The new sandal features a novel geometric structure made possible by a parametric design process and 3D printing. Other key design elements include a ...
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News briefsStravito partners with KnowledgeHound to centralize survey data in one platform
Swedish software provider Stravito, a platform aimed at democratizing access to market research data, has announced a partnership with KnowledgeHound, a U.S.-based survey analytics platform, to offer fully centralized insights management. Companies subscribing to both platforms and taking advantage of this new integration can now access all of their survey ...
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News briefsEA’s FIFA video game will feature women’s teams for the first time
Electronic Arts (EA), the global specialist in digital interactive entertainment, has revealed that EA Sports FIFA 23 will feature women’s club teams for the first time with the inclusion of the Barclays Women’s Super League and Division 1 Arkema, the highest divisions of women’s football in England and France, respectively. ...
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News briefsAnta Sports receives corporate and product awards
Anta Sports is celebrating multiple honors for corporate and product achievements. In the 2022 All-Asia executive team rankings conducted by Institutional Investor the Chinese company won first place in the “Most Honorable Company” and the overall first place for “Best CFO” in the consumer discretionary category. In addition, Anta ranked ...
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Northwave's sales up 34% for 2021
Northwave, the Italian specialist in cycling and snowboarding footwear and accessories, exceeded its expectations for 2021, posting a 34 percent rise in revenues to €35.6 million. Export sales topped 85 percent, the main foreign markets being Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Management is looking to countries outside Europe for future ...
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Tennis is becoming increasingly popular in South Korea
Tennis is apparently becoming increasingly popular in South Korea. This is reported by Korea Jong daily. The market in Korea reached approximately 250 billion won (€190 million) last year, with around 500,000 people playing. According to research by Korea Jong daily, online stores, tennis apparel brands, brick-and-mortar retailers and tennis ...
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Sidi Sport to be sold to Italmobiliare
Italmobiliare has invested in Sidi Sport, the iconic Italian brand specializing in cycling and motorcycling footwear. As per the terms of the agreement, 100 percent of the capital of Sidi Sport S.r.l. will be taken over by Italmobiliare for €66 million, in addition to the net cash held by the ...
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UEFA announces Oppo as a new global sponsor of the Champions League
UEFA has announced Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo as an official partner of the UEFA Champions League for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons. The deal also includes the UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Futsal Champions League finals and UEFA Youth League finals. Oppo will work closely with UEFA to highlight the best ...
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News briefsInstagram offers in-chat payment
Small businesses should now be able to transact business in Instagram chat, Meta, Instagram’s owner, has announced. Meta seeks in this way to support businesses that do not have their own Instagram store. Source: Meta In the chat, it will be possible not only to ask questions, ...
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Infographics & DataTop apparel brands on China’s Tmall during the latest lockdown
This exclusive interactive chart shows the top apparel brands from April 2021 to April 2022 on Alibaba’s e-tail site, Tmall. The chart can be downloaded. This is exclusive data and analysis for Premium Members.
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FIS appoints first executives for its new commercial division and a new deputy secretary general
The International Ski & Snowboard Federation (FIS) has hired Christian Salmon as chief commercial director and Oliver Kraus as director of global partnerships. Salmon was previously senior vice president and managing director at IMG. Kraus was a founding member of KPG & Partners, a sports and entertainment consultancy firm, and ...
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Infographics & DataDTC Sales Growth 2021
This exclusive interactive chart shows the DTC sales growth of the major players in the sporting goods industry.
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News briefsPuma signs fastest woman alive
Source: Business Wire Elaine Thompson-Herah Puma has signed the world’s fastest woman alive, Elaine Thompson-Herah. The Jamaican sprinter and five-time Olympic champion is thus leaving Nike, with whom she had been associated her entire career. Thompson-Herah was seen wearing Puma-branded shoes and apparel earlier this week before ...
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News briefsHeydude unveils new logo and look
Source: www.facebook.com/HeyDudeShoesUSA Heydude new logo After being acquired by Crocs for $2.5 billion earlier this year, the casual footwear brand Heydude has on July 11 unveiled a new logo via its social media accounts that was co-determined by the brand’s fans through focus groups in the U.S., ...
