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Lululemon hires two executives for its new footwear business
Just days after announcing its first own footwear line, Lululemon is bolstering its executive team with the hiring of Simon Atkins as SVP of footwear and Phil Dickinson as SVP, global creative director. Atkins most recently led basketball and U.S. sports at Adidas and has held several senior management and ...
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News briefsNew U.S. brand introduces recovery footwear
Velous Footwear, founded in early 2022, has launched its first line of sandals designed to promote and optimize active recovery for athletes of all levels. Velous’ sandals are designed to help feet, ankles, knees and legs recover quickly from athletic or strenuous activities. The sandals incorporate the company’s patent-pending TriMotion ...
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News briefsStreetwear brand Represent chooses Bleckmann as logistics partner
Source: Bleckmann Signing the contract at Represent headquarters: (from left) Michael Heaton, Robert Kiewik (Bleckmann), George Heaton British streetwear brand Represent, founded in 2012 by brothers George and Michael Heaton and selling primarily through e-commerce, temporary events and key retail partners worldwide, has selected Dutch global supply ...
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Premier Padel to host tournaments in Argentina
The Argentine Padel Association (APA) and Premier Padel, the official global padel tour, governed by the International Padel Federation (FIP), have signed a multi-year deal to hold the South American continent’s first annual Premier Padel tournaments. The first of these will be the Argentina Premier Padel P1, scheduled for Aug. ...
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News briefsDecathlon Germany gets kids moving
Sporting goods retailer and manufacturer Decathlon Germany has launched the “Auf die Plätze“ (“On your marks”) campaign and is going on a tour titled “EntDecA” (a play on words with the German word “Entdecker” for “explorer” and Decathlon) throughout April. The EntDecA mobile invites children in the greater Munich, Berlin ...
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News briefsSports Direct launches running podcast for Ramadan period
British sports retailer Sports Direct has launched a podcast called “Fast Enough: Ramadan Running”, available for free on Audible and other platforms, to assist Muslims during the fast. The English-language podcast series, which runs until the end of Ramadan on May 1, includes training plans, wellness tips, mental preparation and ...
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News briefsTeijin collects more donations for victims of Ukraine war
Fibers and fabrics company Teijin Ltd. has once again increased its aid to the victims of the war in Ukraine. The company, which is part of the Japanese Teijin Group, will donate the equivalent of around €300,000 in humanitarian aid to the suffering people in Ukraine, in addition to the ...
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News briefsFrank Schuffelen appointed CEO of ANWR Group
Source: ANWR Frank Schuffelen, ANWR The ANWR Group, headquartered in Mainhausen, Germany, has appointed Frank Schuffelen as CEO, effective April 1. Schuffelen was previously spokesman of the board and responsible, among other things, for corporate development, human resources, finance, controlling and corporate communications. He will now head ...
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News briefsTwo product awards given out to Performance Days exhibitors
With two trade show events for functional fabrics taking place in the U.S. and Europe, Performance Days Loops is almost back to a pre-pandemic status. The Functional Fabric Fair by Performance Days in Portland, Oregon, are held on April 4-5, while the spring/summer edition of the European show – the ...
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Fairbrics raises €6.5 million to develop carbon-neutral fabrics
Fairbrics, a French sustainable textile start-up, has raised more than €6.5 million in pre-Series A funding. AP Ventures lead the financing round. H&M CO:LAB, the venture capital arm of the H&M Group, joined the round alongside existing investors, including Sake Bosch. Fairbrics creates carbon-neutral fabrics for the fashion industry. The ...
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News briefsLacoste introduces its first collection conceived by a disabled athlete
Lacoste has teamed up with Théo Curin, the French quadri-amputee swimmer, on a new collection that bears the athlete’s name. Curin made history last November by swimming Lake Titicaca, covering a distance of around 120km between Bolivia and Peru. The Théo Curin collection, which is Lacoste’s first ...
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IOC announces new four-sport Olympic qualifier series for Paris 2024
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced a new four-sport Olympic qualifier series for the Olympic Games Paris 2024. The new qualifier series will include four sports – BMX freestyle, breaking, skateboarding, and sport climbing. Three festival-style events will gather the best athletes from each of the four sports. These ...
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News briefsMove City Sport, a new multi-stakeholder event in Bergamo
The first edition of Move City Sport will take place in Bergamo, Italy on Oct. 18-19, 2022. This new trade show and cultural event is promoted by Associazione Impianti Sportivi (AIS), and is organized by Promoberg – Fiera di Bergamo, Fierecom & Events, Paysage – Landscape for Community, and MG ...
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News briefsGerman Football Association (DFB) signs multi-year contract with Catapult
Catapult, the market leader in performance technology for elite sports, today announced a multi-year contract with the DFB Academy to capture performance data via video, track athlete performance via wearables, and enhance analytics infrastructure at all levels of the German national soccer teams. The company’s integrated platform will enable coaches ...
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News briefsCanada Goose appoints Carrie Baker as president
Source: Business Wire Carrie Baker Canada Goose Holdings Inc. has promoted Carrie Baker, a long-term company manager, to president, a new position at the company. In this role, she will be reporting to Dani Reiss, who has been president and CEO in a dual position and will ...
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SIA elects new board members
The Snowsports Industry Association (SIA) has elected a new chairman of the board, Michael West, and new board members. West was the founder in 1992 of the 686 brand of technical apparel and has co-founded or owned several other companies, among them New Balance Numeric, Maekan, Matix, Westwell and NRI ...
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Centr, Inspire Fitness merger has Hollywood, Amazon components
The Aussie actor who plays Thor and the brother of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have teamed up to create a new health and wellness platform with global aspirations. HighPost Capital, a private equity firm led by David Moross and Mark Bezos, has acquired Centr, a digital fitness platform founded by ...
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Court finds Nike infringed a Lontex trademark
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has awarded Lontex about $4.62 million in attorneys’ fees and $369,263 in expenses in a lawsuit with Nike. In addition, the jury in the case awarded damages for Nike’s infringement of the Lontex “cool compression” trademark on athletic wear. The ...
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Infantino to seek third term as FIFA president
Speaking at the 72nd FIFA Congress in Doha on March 31, FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced his intention to stand for re-election in 2023. It would be his third term in this role. Infantino, a 52-year-old Swiss-Italian lawyer, was first elected as FIFA president in February 2016. Before that, starting ...
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News briefsYKK adds WaveOn to its software partner’s list for Touchlink fasteners
YKK has announced that the California-based software service provider WaveOn is joining its network of software partners supporting the YKK’s Touchlink fasteners enabled with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. WaveOn looks to combine its software with the Touchlink hardware to help brand customers create a digital access point that can ...
