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Hyosung is launching a new elastane product from its Creora...
Hyosung is launching a new elastane product from its Creora brand that is to serve the endurance sports apparel market. The new Creora ActiFit elastane is said to offer more durability, higher levels of resistance to chlorine and UV, and better shape and recovery. These features best suit endurance sports ...
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Rip Curl has signed a five-year global licensing deal for...
Rip Curl has signed a five-year global licensing deal for eyewear with ADCL, the French designer and distributor of optical frames and sunglasses. The two companies have been working together in the European eyewear market since 2008, and over that period Rip Curl has achieved annual eyewear sales of 300,000 ...
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Lululemon is entering the French market in a more serious...
Lululemon is entering the French market in a more serious way by launching its own country-specific website this month, followed by the opening of a physical store of 194 square meters in Paris, at 47 rue Bonaparte. The brand already has a shop-in-shop in the Bon Marché department store and ...
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Puma will be supporting the Museum of European and Mediterranean...
Puma will be supporting the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (Mucem) in Marseille until 2021. The brand is the technical sponsor of the Olympic de Marseille, also known as OM, the French football club in Marseille that plays in Ligue 1, and the partnership is said to be a ...
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The North Face has teamed up with National Geographic on...
The North Face has teamed up with National Geographic on the launch of a limited-edition addition to its “Bottle Source” collection, which is described as turning plastic into clothing. The pieces are made from 384,000 pounds of plastic bottles that were pulled from waste streams in various outdoor areas across ...
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Go Sport has sold Tool Fitness to Netquattro, a French...
Go Sport has sold Tool Fitness to Netquattro, a French company specializing in the design and marketing of fitness equipment, training apparel and food supplements. Tool Fitness is a B2B and B2C online retailer of fitness equipment. Go Sport had acquired it in 2015.
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Helge Mankowski, a former professional football player and up-to-date managing...
Helge Mankowski, a former professional football player and up-to-date managing director at Intersport Voswinkel, has left the executive board of the sports retail chain, which filed for insolvency protection proceedings under its own administration on April 24 and is currently up for sale. In January 2017, Intersport Germany appointed Mankowski as ...
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Just as we are going to press, we hear that...
Just as we are going to press, we hear that Kjus, the premium Swiss brand of ski and golf clothing, is being acquired by Acushnet Holdings, the golf equipment group controlled by Fila Korea. Kjus' founder, Didi Serena, and his son Nico are expected to continue to be involved in ...
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Patagonia is launching a mail-in option for its Worn Wear...
Patagonia is launching a mail-in option for its Worn Wear sustainability program in the U.S. Customers will have the opportunity to mail-in used Patagonia clothing, in exchange for credit to buy items in the brand's retail stores. The initiative is intended to make sustainable practices more accessible to customers and ...
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Joma will be the new technical sponsor of Spain's national...
Joma will be the new technical sponsor of Spain's national futsal league, the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Sala (LNFS). For five seasons as of 2019/2020, the Spanish sports footwear and apparel brand will be supplying official game balls for all LNFS matches for the Primera División – regular league play, ...
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VF Corp. has inaugurated a 16,000-square-foot U.K. headquarters in the...
VF Corp. has inaugurated a 16,000-square-foot U.K. headquarters in the center of Soho, in London. The seven-story building, Axtell Soho, will be used as a showroom for buyers as well as a place for the group's staff to host meetings and share ideas. The building features dedicated floors for The North ...
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Puma completed its planned stock split on June 10, giving...
Puma completed its planned stock split on June 10, giving shareholders nine new shares for each one in their possession. The idea is to make the stock more attractive. It closed today at €54.90 a share compared with about €540 before.
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On June 17, Ratnakar Lavu became Nike's first global chief...
On June 17, Ratnakar Lavu became Nike's first global chief digital information officer, in charge of digital technologies. He reports to Eric Sprunk, chief operating officer. Lavu was most recently chief technology and information officer at Kohl's, the American retail chain, heading up its IT, digital and consumer technology. Before that, ...
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BasicNet, the company founded by Marco Boglione in 1994 through...
BasicNet, the company founded by Marco Boglione in 1994 through the acquisition of a former knitwear company, got a special prize at the Pitti Uomo fair in Florence earlier this month as “the first marketplace in the history of clothing.” Today, BasicNet, which owns and licenses Kappa, K-Way, Sebago, Superga ...
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The 3rd edition of the Sea Otter Europe Costa Brava-Girona...
The 3rd edition of the Sea Otter Europe Costa Brava-Girona Bike Show, which took place from May 31 to June 2, attracted 6,100 cyclists from different disciplines and more than 60,000 visitors, surpassing the 50,000 visitors of last year's edition. Exhibitors and cyclists came from more than 50 countries, highlighting ...
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Abacus Sportswear has announced the appointment of Marc Anderman as...
Abacus Sportswear has announced the appointment of Marc Anderman as the new commercial manager for the U.K. Anderman has worked for more than ten years with the Solheim Cup and has a long relationship with the Swedish apparel brand, having appointed the company as the official supplier to the European ...
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NikeLab and the designer Virgil Abloh have launched the Chicago...
NikeLab and the designer Virgil Abloh have launched the Chicago Re-Creation Center at 673 de N. Michigan Avenue. Slated to run during the summer, from May 31 to July 28, this “cultural hub” is intended to provide mentorships and workshops for the young in Abloh's hometown as well as exclusive ...
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After a long absence, Slazenger is returning to France. The...
After a long absence, Slazenger is returning to France. The move back across the English Channel will occur in the spring/summer of 2020. Global Sportswear Services (GSS) will be handling the footwear license for France and plans to begin with a mid-tier line of about ten models and a higher-end ...
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Running event participation is declining. According to an international study...
Running event participation is declining. According to an international study by RunRepeat, participation peaked in 2016, with a total of 9.1 million race results. By 2018, it had fallen to 7.9 million results, for a drop of 13 percent. In the long term, however, between 1986 and 2018, race participation ...
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Superfeet of Ferndale, Washington, has acquired RSscan International, a maker...
Superfeet of Ferndale, Washington, has acquired RSscan International, a maker of systems to scan and analyze feet, notably for athletes. The deal's terms remain undisclosed, but it will enable the American insole and footwear brand to expand its research and manufacturing infrastructure. The combined company will have at least seven ...
