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Authentic Brands moves the Spyder license to Liberated Brands
Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has announced the transition of its core licenses for its ski-focused Spyder brand to Liberated Brands. Under the terms of the new long-term agreement, Liberated Brands will assume outerwear and apparel sourcing, product design, marketing, wholesale, e-commerce and retail store operations across the U.S., Canada, Australia, ...
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FightCamp raises $90 million in a new funding round
FightCamp, the at-home training system for boxing and kickboxing, has raised $90 million from a long list of investors that also includes contributions from famous fighters like Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Georges St-Pierre and Francis Ngannou. The funding round was led by two venture capital firms, New Enterprise Associates ...
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Oakley announces new partnership with the Korean Olympic Committee
Oakley has agreed on a new sponsorship agreement for sunglasses with the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC). Oakley will provide sunglasses and goggles to the athletes of Team Korea participating in the Olympic Games and Asian Games through to the end of 2024. As part of the agreement, Oakley ...
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Decathlon sends its first American athlete ambassadors to the Olympics
Decathlon has announced that two of its sponsored athletes, Jamal Hill (paralympic swimming) and Robyn Stevens (race walking), have qualified for the Tokyo Summer Olympics and will be the first Team USA athletes to represent the French brand at the Olympic Games. After being postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
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Castore partners with Newcastle United
Castore has agreed on a new multi-year deal with Newcastle United as the new kit partner of the Premier League club. The British sportswear brand will replace Puma in this role from the 2021/22 season. As part of the agreement, Castore will also take over the club’s retail operations. This ...
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ArticleSporting goods stocks jumped by 26.65% in Q2
The average share price of the sporting goods sector grew by 26.65 percent between March 31 and June 30, accelerating from the 10.9 percent growth recorded in the first three months of this year. As usual, the public companies in this sector scored much better than all the major stock ...
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Adidas sues Thom Browne
Adidas has filed a formal lawsuit in a New York federal court for copyright infringement against Thom Browne, according to The Fashion Law, charging that the New York-based menswear designer is “selling athletic-style apparel and footwear featuring two, three or four parallel stripes in a manner that is confusingly similar ...
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Adidas shortlists five candidates for Reebok’s takeover
Adidas has drawn up a shortlist of five candidates for the acquisition of Reebok, according to Reuters, asking them to submit their bids by August. The only strategic investor on the list is Wolverine Worlwide, owner of Merrell and some 15 other shoe brands. It has reportedly proposed to take ...
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News briefsTNF to retire its Futurelight logo
The North Face plans to “phase out and discontinue” the logo it introduced in 2019 for its Futurelight line of apparel and accessories. In January, a graffiti artist in New York working under the name Futura filed a lawsuit in California Central District Court alleging that the VF-owned brand had ...
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Nike partners with Fútbol Emotion for new football deal
The RCD Mallorca football club has signed a technical partnership contract with Nike for the next five seasons in connection with its return to the first division of the Spanish La Liga. The contract will be managed by Fútbol Emotion, following a business model similar to the one recently adopted ...
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ArticleSalomon announces sustainability goals around its sports marketing efforts
Salomon is committing to improving the environmental impact of its in-person events, athletes and ambassadors. The brand has outlined specific sustainability-related goals to meet by 2025, touching both the protection of local nature and the overall emissions related to sports marketing. The brand’s two-pronged approach around events and athletes will ...
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News briefsA new Swiss chairman and CEO for Arena
A Swiss citizen, Peter Graschi, has been appointed as the new chairman and CEO of Arena by Capvis, the Swiss private equity firm that took over control of the Italian-based swimwear company in 2014. Starting on July 1, he has taken the place of Luca Selvatici, chairman and joint CEO, ...
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Hoka One One strengthens its product team
Hoka One One has announced Evie Moe and Matt Rask as new senior members of its product team. Moe has been hired as the brand’s first senior director of apparel. Hoka’s apparel division was launched in March 2020, and it is growing rapidly. Most recently, Moe served as the vice-president ...
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Naples' football club plans to create its own jerseys
After the expiration of its sponsorship contract with Kappa, which had taken the place of Macron, the S.S.C. Napoli football club had not unveiled any new kit partner. The Serie A club has now announced that it is planning to drop any technical sponsors and produce its own jerseys from ...
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Nyjah Huston launches his own skateboarding brand for the Olympics
Nyjah Imani Huston has launched his own skateboarding brand, Disorder Skateboards. The company’s website went live on June 25. The name of the brand was chosen to reflect the rebellious spirit of those who participate in the sport, Huston explains in a post on the Disorder site. Huston is a ...
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Kim Kardashian supplies clothing for Team USA at the Olympics
Kim Kardashian announced on social media that the official underwear, pajamas and loungewear worn by the athletes of Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will be supplied free of charge by her shapewear company, Skims. They will have Olympic branding, and consumers are being invited to purchase them ...
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Nike SB works with an artist for the skateboarding uniforms at the Olympics
Collaborating with a Dutch artist, Piet Parra, Nike SB is supplying distinctive and functional uniforms for 19 athletes – many of them women - and four national federations competing in skateboarding at the Tokyo Olympics. Skateboarding is one of the five new sports added to the program for the event. ...
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Anta releases China’s Olympic sportswear
Anta has released the podium uniform for China’s Olympic team. Designed by Tim Yip, also known as Ye Jintian, the “Champion Dragon Clothes” combine traditional Chinese cultural icons with the latest in sportswear materials. The artist and Oscar-winning designer remarks that designing the uniform has been “different from designing costumes ...
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ArticleGymshark’s co-founder and main shareholder replaces Hewitt as CEO
Starting on Aug. 1, Ben Francis, the 29-year-old entrepreneur who co-founded Gymshark in 2012 and is the British fitness apparel brand’s controlling shareholder, will take over the role of CEO from Steve Hewitt, who had been appointed managing director in 2015 and promoted to CEO two years later. Francis has ...
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A new executive director and a new board member for Anta
Anta Sports Products announced two executive changes. Bi Mingwei has been promoted as an executive director of the company, effective July 1. Mingwei is currently a vice president of Anta and a director of certain subsidiaries within the group, primarily responsible for financial management, business processes, information management and logistics ...
