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Scarpa has signed a multi-year sponsorship deal with the Italian...
Scarpa has signed a multi-year sponsorship deal with the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI). The agreement will see the brand sponsor Italy's national mountain skiing team during the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons. The partnership was officially presented during Milano Montagna Week at Base Milano on Oct. 17.
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Executing on its omni-channel strategy, Decathlon has inaugurated two-hour home...
Executing on its omni-channel strategy, Decathlon has inaugurated two-hour home delivery for online orders in Spain. The initiative took shape in early 2019 and was tested with good results in Madrid, Valencia, Vigo and Tenerife. The French sporting goods retailer has now set up permanent systems in Madrid, Barcelona, Tarragona, ...
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Polygiene, the Swedish developer and supplier of Stays Fresh and...
Polygiene, the Swedish developer and supplier of Stays Fresh and Odor Crunch technology, has announced new agreements with Vtinon, a Korean producer of socks, and with Osklen, a sustainable Brazilian sportswear brand owned by the Alpargatas group. It has previously announced Tommy Sport as a client. The Swedish company's financial ...
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Steve Furniss is stepping down as team management director at...
Steve Furniss is stepping down as team management director at Tyr Sport, the company he co-founded in 1985 and has worked for ever since. Furniss was an Olympic swimmer and set two world records before he embarked on a business career. Horst Dassler, then the owner of Adidas, hired him ...
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Skechers says it has won a protracted trademark dispute with...
Skechers says it has won a protracted trademark dispute with Converse. An International Trade Commission judge found that Skechers' Twinkle Toes and its BOBS designs did not violate the trademark rights of Converse's Chuck Taylor midsole. According to Skechers, the judge also ruled that Converse's trademark had not acquired any ...
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Shimano Europe's Nordic division will be handling the sale and...
Shimano Europe's Nordic division will be handling the sale and distribution of its fishing tackle products for the region as of October 2020. Its team, headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, will thus be expanded. The Nordic region is the third to receive a plan for the overhaul of Shimano's distribution. The ...
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Nikolai Klausen is the new secretary general of DSF, the...
Nikolai Klausen is the new secretary general of DSF, the Danish sporting goods retailers' federation, taking the place of Poul-Eric Pedersen, who is retiring after a long tenure in the position. Klausen spent the last four years with other trade associations affiliated with the Danish Chamber of Commerce. He previously ...
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Eastpak has joined forces with Neighborhood, the Japanese streetwear label,...
Eastpak has joined forces with Neighborhood, the Japanese streetwear label, founded by Shinsuke Takizawa in 1994, on a range of padded bags. The collaboration has resulted in four items made of nylon and satin, inspired by Neighborhood's military/biker streetwear style. Each item features co-branded graphics as well as Neighborhood's slogan, ...
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The Ironman Group has hired Ellen Newberg to be its...
The Ironman Group has hired Ellen Newberg to be its chief marketing officer, in charge of what is purportedly the world's largest mass-participation sports platform, home of the Ironman, Ironman 70.3, Rock ‘n' Roll Marathon Series and Epic Series. She will also oversee event marketing, athlete development programs, other digital ...
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The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) is...
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) is backing the European #BeActive campaign, which promotes sport and exercise for healthier living. As part of the campaign, the European Week of Sport (EWoS), which ran from Sept. 23 to 30, saw the organization of thousands of events across Europe, ...
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The organizers of the European Outdoor Summit felt that its...
The organizers of the European Outdoor Summit felt that its seventh edition in Interlaken was “a resounding success,” although the number of delegates declined to just over 200 from 300 a year ago, when the highly dynamic Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG) played host. There is no similar industry association in ...
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Silhouette International, known for its high-end eyeglasses, is introducing a...
Silhouette International, known for its high-end eyeglasses, is introducing a new highly functional line of sports eyewear this autumn, simultaneously with the end of its long-standing licensing deal with Adidas, which has moved to the Marcolin Group. Developed and produced internally by the Austrian family-run company, each Evil Eye-branded model ...
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Macron is the new technical sponsor of the Italian Federation...
Macron is the new technical sponsor of the Italian Federation of Equestrian Tourism (FITENTREC-ANTE). The federation is part of the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) as the representative of competitive equestrian sports including workhorse, western riding (with the exception of reining), cross country, derby and horseback archery, while also being the ...
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Fitbit is moving the manufacturing of its trackers and smartwatches...
Fitbit is moving the manufacturing of its trackers and smartwatches out of China. As of January 2020, they will be manufactured elsewhere and no longer be subject to the new tariffs imposed by the U.S. government.
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Tradebyte, the German internet marketplace specialist owned by Zalando since...
Tradebyte, the German internet marketplace specialist owned by Zalando since 2016, has elevated Kathrin Hösl to the position of chief operating officer. She will be a member of the management board along with the chief executive, Matthias Schulte, and the chief financial officer, Thorsten Barth. Hösl, who previously worked for ...
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GoPro has warned investors that its results for this year...
GoPro has warned investors that its results for this year will not be as good as expected because unspecified production delays for the Hero8 Black action camera, leading the share price to plunge below $4. The delays will cause about $30 million in sales to be shifted from the third ...
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Prana, a brand of Columbia Sportswear, is offering $100,000 to...
Prana, a brand of Columbia Sportswear, is offering $100,000 to one person as an incentive to enable them to “pursue their passion.” The idea is consistent with the brand's slogan, “Clothing for Positive Change.” Applicants must submit a one- to three-minute video illustrating their current job and their dream job. ...
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Sales jumped by 18 percent to £56.6 million (€63.7m-$69.8m) in...
Sales jumped by 18 percent to £56.6 million (€63.7m-$69.8m) in 2018 at Sweaty Betty, but the British fitness apparel brand incurred a pre-tax loss of £710,753 (€799,414-$876,559), compared with a profit of £1.3 million in 2017. The loss was attributed to the investments in new physical stores and digital operations. ...
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Champion's parent company, HanesBrands, is partnering with How2Recycle, the standardized...
Champion's parent company, HanesBrands, is partnering with How2Recycle, the standardized labeling system, to improve engagement with its consumers in the recycling of its product packaging. Hanes has begun submitting its packaging components to How2Recycle for recyclability assessments. Each packaging configuration receives the proper label, which identifies the type or types ...
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On Sept. 20, Arena opened a pop-up store at the...
On Sept. 20, Arena opened a pop-up store at the flagship Galeries Lafayette department store on boulevard Haussmann in Paris. It is located on the fourth floor of the Magasin Coupole in an area called Vestiaire Sport and will be doing business through Oct. 13. There the Italian swimwear brand ...
