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Alistair Cameron joins sportshoes.com as non-executive director
Alistair Cameron, the experienced sporting goods industry executive who served most recently as CEO of Asics EMEA until November 2019, is joining Sports Shoes, the U.K.-based athletic footwear e-tailer, as non-executive director. The British executive spent 35 years in the industry. He joined Asics in 2009 after working for a ...
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News briefsFoot Locker launches its Cozi label of women’s apparel
Foot Locker has announced the global launch of its first private label of women’s apparel, Cozi, presenting it as “an apparel brand designed for women who keep up with trends, love sneakers and crave premium wardrobe staples at an affordable value.” It will be exclusively available in multiple sizes online ...
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News briefsISPO will hold an online “trend festival” in January and February
ISPO has announced the ISPO.com Trend Festival 2022, scheduled from Jan. 17 to Feb. 18, 2022, to celebrate the most innovative products, newcomers and important trends in the sporting goods and outdoor industry. After the strategic move of ISPO Munich’s dates from late January to its permanent new date in ...
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News briefsMade to be remade: How Adidas wants to trigger systemic change
Eight months after announcing the new project of a climate-friendly running shoe in collaboration with Allbirds, Adidas has reported the planned launch on Dec. 15 of its Futurecraft.Footprint. With 2.94 kg of CO2 emissions per pair, Adidas describes the shoe as a personal best for both brands. The Futurecraft.Footprint is ...
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News briefsBlue Tomato expands to Norway
Source: blue-tomato.com The new Blue Tomato store at Grensen 13 in downtown Oslo. Blue Tomato has opened its first store in Norway. The Austrian-based company, which is part of the U.S. action sports retailer Zumiez, moved into a 425-square-meter store at Grensen 13 in the heart of ...
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Fendi collaborates with Arena and Thélios
Fendi, the Italian luxury fashion house owned by LVMH, is entering the sport of swimming through a limited-edition collection of high-performance caps and goggles, with special packaging, developed in collaboration with Arena and Thélios. They will become available in January. The swim goggles and the caps are supplied by Arena. ...
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More concentration in the German media market
Accelerated by the Covid pandemic, which has reduced the sports brands’ budget for national B2B advertising, the number of German retailer-oriented trade publications operating in the German sporting goods market has been cut from three to one over a span of just five years. The Ebner Media Group (EMG) has ...
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Nike’s website gets more visits than major fashion retailers
Nike continued to outperform various fashion retailers this year in terms of visits to its website on a global basis, according to an annual study by Semrush that uses Google data. Monthly visits to its websites averaged 120 million so far this year, 3.3 percent below the level of 2020, ...
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NBA to stream two games per week live in Norway
The NBA has signed a multi-year deal to stream two live games per week through the website of Norway’s top online newspaper, VG, which has a daily circulation of 2.4 million. There will also be “highlights, short-form content and articles.” The games will be exclusive to subscribers of VG+ Sport, ...
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A new Absolute Teamsport partner in Germany
Sport Böckmann, a big German specialty team sports dealer based in Holdorf, will become the next partner in the roll-out of the Absolute Teamsport concept, Sport 2000’s new premium multi-channel format for team sports specialists. The long-time Sport 2000 partner will reopen its doors in the first quarter of 2022 ...
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After losing the Nike and Adidas contracts, Italy’s Sport Alliance boosts its wholesale activities
Sport Alliance, the Italian buying group affiliated with Sport 2000 International, is further boosting its wholesale operations with a contract for the distribution of Cariuma skate shoes in Italy. The brand’s sustainable sneakers are developed and produced in Brazil. Sport Alliance still has one and a half years to go ...
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New legal tussle between Adidas’ Primeknit and Nike’s FlyKnit
In the latest legal challenge over its labor-saving, knitted-upper Flyknit technology, Nike has filed a patent infringement suit in Oregon’s federal court against Adidas and asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to block imports of its latest Primeknit styles. The list of the products includes various lifestyle, football, running and ...
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News briefsThe Kapsul neck protector becomes an ingredient brand
Kapsul Tech has started to market its neck protection device, rebranded as Kapsul, as an ingredient brand. The Canadian company is promoting awareness for the neck as a vulnerable and poorly protected part of the body in a variety of sports, especially among younger athletes, who still have underdeveloped neck ...
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Footway launches ninth e-tail shop, focusing on racquet sports
The Footway Group has launched its ninth specialty e-commerce site, Racketnow.com, which will be selling tennis, badminton, squash, table tennis, padel and other racquet sports products online in 24 countries, operating under the supervision of Gustav Land, general manager of the project. “The ambition,” says Land, “is for Racketnow.com to ...
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CCM Hockey’s parent acquires two brands of figure, roller and inline skates
Sport Maska, owner of the CCM Hockey brand, has acquired Tournament Sports Marketing. Headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario, Tournament owns the Jackson Ultima brand of figure skates and the Atom brand of roller and inline skates. Marrouane Nabih, Sport Maska’s CEO, calls it “a strategic acquisition that allows us to expand ...
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Zara to offer subscriptions for on-demand workouts through partnership
Zara has struck a deal with TRX Training, which will be offering Zara’s customers subscriptions to its digital fitness platform, called TRX Training Club, for on-demand and live guided workouts. In tandem, Zara will be selling the company’s signature TRX product, the Suspension Trainer (which resembles a pair of Olympic ...
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Addmaster develops anti-microbial drink-switcher
In collaboration with Mix Innovations, Addmaster has developed a way for thirsty runners, hikers and cyclists to choose water or a sports drink as they like, without any residue tainting the water. The M:X Dual Hydration System is a “small device,” with a drink switch, that “attaches to the shoulder ...
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Energy drinks will grow faster than sports drinks
GlobalData – a market research agency founded in 2016, combining several smaller such firms, and headquartered in London – has released a report titled Energy and Sports Nutrition Market – Overview, Consumer Behavior and Market Trends. According to this report, the pandemic depressed the near totality of the market for ...
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Adriano Testa, former president of FEDAS, has passed away
Adriano Testa, a former president of the European sporting goods federation (FEDAS), has passed away, aged 86. Inheriting the reputed Testa Sport sports store in St. Moritz from his father, he ran it from 1964 to 1996. As a member of ASMAS, the Swiss sporting goods retailers’ association, he acted ...
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News briefsHigg appoints a chief strategy officer to lead the platform’s expansion
Higg, the environmental software platform responsible for the Higg Index, has appointed James Schaffer as chief strategy officer to lead business development and partnerships. Schaffer’s experience in developing industry initiatives in the apparel sector, where Higg’s platform is widely used, is expected to be instrumental in guiding the company’s expansion ...
