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Decathlon launches its marketplace in the U.K.
Decathlon UK has reportedly launched its own marketplace, offering domestic brands such as Donda Cycling and Pendle Bike Racks as well as items by international brands such as Adidas and Speedo. As previously reported, Decathlon is rolling out its marketplace in various European countries. It launched its first marketplace in ...
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UYN opens its first Basecamp Store
UYN - Unleash Your Nature has opened its first UYN Basecamp Store, a retail space whose concept and name are meant to recall the landmark role of base camps for mountaineers. The new 200-square-meter store is located in San Ginesio, a municipality in the Italian province of Macerata, located in ...
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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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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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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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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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Sport is not among Spain’s top e-tail categories
Sport does not figure among the chief product categories in Spanish e-commerce. So says the latest edition of an annual study put out by Elogia, a Spanish digital marketing agency, and IAB Spain, which claims to be the world’s largest association of communications, advertising and digital-marketing agencies. Some 25.8 million ...
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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 ...
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Gympass’ valuation more than doubles to $2.2 billion
Gympass has seen its valuation more than double to $2.2 billion, apparently reflecting a return to pre-Covid levels in the activities of fitness gyms and wellness studios, through a new $220 million round of financing. The big corporate wellbeing platform said it saw “a record four million monthly visits across ...
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Mammut is sold for one year worth of sales
Bystronic, the Swiss holding company previously called Conzzeta Group, has announced the completion on June 30 of the sale of the Mammut Sports Group to Telemos Capital for an enterprise value of 230 million Swiss francs (€209.7m-$248.6m), including an earn-up of up to CHF 45 million (€41.0m-$48.6m). The figure is ...
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Afydad partners with the GSIC, powered by Microsoft
The Global Sports Innovation Center (GSIC) powered by Microsoft and the Spanish Association of Sporting Goods Manufacturers and Distributors (Afydad) will be forming a joint commission to expand the use of technology in the sporting goods sector, notably in terms of digitalization, and take part in Spain’s Development Plan for ...
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Brooks has a new climate plan
Brooks Running has announced a “2030 planet strategy,” with new sustainability targets, to “achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040.” In addition to converting factories to renewable electricity, the brand and its suppliers plan to use low-impact dyeing processes for textile yarns and source materials with recycled contents. The company ...
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New series recommends best practices to eliminate child labor in the supply chain
GoodWeave International, a non-profit organization founded in 1994 by the Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi and with offices in Washington DC and Oxfordshire, England, has released its “Best Practice Series to Eliminate Child Labor in Global Supply Chains” as a resource in connection with the International Year for the Elimination of ...
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News briefsPatagonia signs a multi-year agreement with Infinited Fiber
Patagonia has signed a multi-year supply agreement with Infinited Fiber Company, a Finnish circular fashion and textile biotechnology company, to guarantee access to its regenerated textile fiber, called Infinna. The virgin-quality fiber comes with the soft and natural look and feel of cotton. It is made from cotton-rich textile waste ...
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Adidas announces a new share buy-back program, boosting its share price
Considering that it will generate “substantional cumulative free cash flow” over the next five years through its new “Own the Game” strategy, Adidas announced the launch of a new share buyback program worth in total between €8 billion and €9 billion. The program will start on July 1 with the ...
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SportEasy raises €5 million in a Series A funding round
SportEasy, a French web and mobile app for the management of amateur sports, has secured €5 million in a Series A funding round with support from Seventure Partners via Sport & Performance Capital, as well as the Macif insurance company and various business angels who have been supporting the start-up ...
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Researchers develop Wi-Fi-powered smart clothes that can be machine-washed
Engineers at Purdue University have developed battery-free smart clothes powered by Wi-Fi that are resistant to laundry. Unlike common wearables, these smart clothes are not powered by a battery, but through a flexible, silk-based coil sewn on the fabric, which means wirelessly. By collecting energy from Wi-Fi or radio waves ...
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Allyson Felix launches her own brand of running shoes
Allyson Felix has launched Saysh, a new lifestyle brand for women. The news, which first broke on Time.com on June 23, comes two years after the American track and field sprinter’s publicized break-up with Nike over the treatment of pregnant athletes. In late 2018, Felix, who is today 35 years ...
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The Sportsdays trade show in Zurich went well
A total of 70 companies representing more than 240 brands took part in the sportsdays.ch by ISPO Munich in Zurich on June 21 and 22, addressing Swiss buyers with a preview of spring/summer 2022 collections. The new format of the national Swiss trade show, which replaces the former Inspirationstage, is ...
