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Ecco Golf has been awarded a Red Dot Award for...
Ecco Golf has been awarded a Red Dot Award for its S-Lite golf shoe. The Red Dot awards look at products from nearly 50 categories, and honor products for their excellence in design. The S-Lite is described as the lightest leather golf shoe that Ecco Golf has ever produced. The ...
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New Balance has partnered with Genies, the maker of digital...
New Balance has partnered with Genies, the maker of digital avatars, for the release of its Fresh Foam Roav shoe. The Genies app allows users to create their idealized selves by choosing from thousands of personality types, eye color, hair style and other features, and now also from New Balance ...
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The battle for control of Netshoes, the Brazilian e-tailer specializing...
The battle for control of Netshoes, the Brazilian e-tailer specializing in athletic footwear, has ended. Its shareholders approved on Friday Magazine Luiza's latest improved offer of $3.70 a share, valuing the company at $115 million. The Brazilian omni-channel retailer had initially made a bid for Netshoes at $2.00 per share, ...
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Reebok has been chosen as the official human performance partner...
Reebok has been chosen as the official human performance partner of the Navy Seal Foundation, the charity that supports and assists the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (NSW) community and its families. The partnership is meant to raise awareness around human performance and the benefits that fitness can provide to cope ...
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Blizzard Tecnica USA has promoted Justin Heanue to national sales...
Blizzard Tecnica USA has promoted Justin Heanue to national sales manager. He will report directly to Sam Cook, president of Blizzard Tecnica USA. Blizzard Sport USA is under the Tecnica Group umbrella. Blizzard and Tecnica operate as a single business unit in the U.S.
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Expanding its digital marketing operations, Uhlsport launched a blog with...
Expanding its digital marketing operations, Uhlsport launched a blog with a focus on goalkeepers on June 6. According to the German company, almost half of the goalkeepers playing in German first-league football clubs are partners of Uhlsport. The blog features a combination of news on top goalkeepers and football teams ...
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Blue Tomato, the omni-channel boardsports retailer, is planning to open...
Blue Tomato, the omni-channel boardsports retailer, is planning to open its first brick-and-mortar shop in Scandinavia, according to sport-guide.com. The Austrian-based retailer, which is a subsidiary of the Zumiez group, already sells online in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Blue Tomato is also planning to open a store in Amsterdam in ...
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Henri Lloyd, the British clothing brand for yachtsmen and sailors,...
Henri Lloyd, the British clothing brand for yachtsmen and sailors, is introducing a new logo to symbolize a return to the brand's heritage while also suggesting a fresh start, for a new phase in the brand's history. Henri Lloyd has had a new owner since June 2018, when the former ...
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Brandplus is the new footwear licensee of O'Neill. The cooperation...
Brandplus is the new footwear licensee of O'Neill. The cooperation started with this year's spring/summer 2019 season. Pointbreak, a subsidiary of Brandplus, has the licensing rights for the member states of the European Union, Russia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Monaco, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Turkey. Brandplus was created in ...
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Claes Broqvist has left as chief sales officer of Overalp...
Claes Broqvist has left as chief sales officer of Overalp to become the first international sales director of Vicis from Aug. 5. Based in Seattle, the young American brand has developed a special concussion technology that has earned its helmets the top rating in American football for three years in ...
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Gary Burrell, co-founder of Garmin International, a unit of Garmin...
Gary Burrell, co-founder of Garmin International, a unit of Garmin Ltd., died on June 12 at the age of 81. Burrell was an electrical engineer specializing in integrated avionics, designing and developing the first successful combined navigation receiver and communications transceiver (nav/comm) for the general aviation market. He held executive ...
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Nike has taken the Outdoor Grand Prix at the Cannes...
Nike has taken the Outdoor Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The jury for the French awards in communications, advertising and marketing was delighted with the “Dream Crazy” campaign that Nike put together with its longstanding ad agency, Wieden + Kennedy of Portland, Oregon. The ad ...
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Danny MacAskill, the mountain-biker known for combining urban and outdoor...
Danny MacAskill, the mountain-biker known for combining urban and outdoor styles, has signed a sponsorship deal with Adidas Outdoor. MacAskill has been wearing Adidas' Five Ten shoe brand for about a decade, but Adidas has decided to stop using the Five Ten brand name, and the athlete will now be ...
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Neymar da Silva Santos Jr., commonly known simply as Neymar,...
Neymar da Silva Santos Jr., commonly known simply as Neymar, the Nike-sponsored forward on both the Paris Saint-Germain and Brazilian national football teams, has been accused of rape. His 27-year-old accuser, whose name has not been disclosed, filed a report to that effect on May 31 with the police in ...
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VF Corp. has entered into a partnership with Tmall, the...
VF Corp. has entered into a partnership with Tmall, the Chinese B2C e-commerce platform and marketplace owned by Alibaba Group. VF is hoping to glean insights into the Chinese market in terms of buyers, growth opportunities, product design and assortment. This is not the American company's first collaboration with the ...
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Spyder has renewed and expanded its sponsorship of the U.S....
Spyder has renewed and expanded its sponsorship of the U.S. Ski Team through the year 2023. The American sportswear company has been the team's exclusive supplier of official apparel since 1989. It will be designing and supplying men's and women's uniforms not only for the Alpine team, as before, but ...
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Lorpen has made a number of strides recently to extend...
Lorpen has made a number of strides recently to extend the reach of its technical socks. In the U.S., the Spanish brand has signed a marketing deal with Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI), the outdoor cooperative website based in Sumner, Washington, and has been working with the retailer Dunham's Sports. In ...
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The Wanda Sports Group has filed for an initial public...
The Wanda Sports Group has filed for an initial public offering in the U.S. The preliminary value set in the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission is $500 million. The Chinese company's considerable brand portfolio in sports includes Ironman, the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon series and the Cape Epic ...
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Go Sport has opened its first two stores in India,...
Go Sport has opened its first two stores in India, following a master franchise agreement signed at the end of 2017 with the Lulu Group. The two units are a store of 1,200 square meters in Mumbai and another one measuring 1,000 m² in Bangalore.
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Uniqlo will inaugurate its first Italian physical store on September...
Uniqlo will inaugurate its first Italian physical store on September 13. Until now, the brand's Italian presence was online only. The 1,500 shop, on three floors, will be located in Milan's Piazza Cordusio, at walking distance from Piazza Duomo. The Japanese brand opened a 2,040-square-meter shop in Amsterdam last October, ...
