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Andy Murray has taken a stake in Castore, the British...
Andy Murray has taken a stake in Castore, the British premium sports and casual menswear brand. The company did not unveil the financial details of Murray's investment. Meanwhile, the 31-year-old tennis player is also becoming the brand's global ambassador. The financial details of the sponsorship deal were not revealed either, ...
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Puma has announced that its use of cotton from sustainable...
Puma has announced that its use of cotton from sustainable sources reached 50 percent in 2018, two years earlier than the scheduled target of 2020. According to the company's estimates, the use of sustainable cotton, such as cotton from the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), has reduced its water consumption by ...
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Callaway Golf has announced that Francesco Molinari has joined its...
Callaway Golf has announced that Francesco Molinari has joined its Tour Professional Staff. Molinari, a native of Turin, Italy, is currently ranked as the 10th player in the world. In 2018, he won his first major at The Open Championship. Last year, he also won the BMW PGA Championship and ...
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The Skechers Foundation's tenth annual Pier to Pier Friendship Walk,...
The Skechers Foundation's tenth annual Pier to Pier Friendship Walk, in October 2018, raised more than $2 million. As a result, Skechers has now distributed checks totaling more than $1 million to six educational foundations and delivered a seventh check – for about $600,000, in its largest single donation to ...
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Babolat has finally confirmed the appointment of Antoine Saticq as...
Babolat has finally confirmed the appointment of Antoine Saticq as chief sales officer of the company. Saticq had served most recently as chief sales officer of Odlo International since the end of 2015. He ran Le Coq Sportif for three years until the end of 2008 before spending nearly four ...
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Lacoste has signed an apparel endorsement deal with Daniil Medvedev,...
Lacoste has signed an apparel endorsement deal with Daniil Medvedev, the current number 15 in the ATP rankings for men's tennis. He will be wearing Lacoste as of this year's Miami Open, scheduled for March 18-31. Medvedev's previous sponsor was Lotto. This is actually Lacoste's second deal with the Moscovite, ...
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Tim Turnbull is retiring from Aquapac, a British maker of...
Tim Turnbull is retiring from Aquapac, a British maker of waterproof bags and cases, after 22 years as chief executive. Mike Malavasi, the current special accounts director, and John Kelly, the current sales director, will be taking charge of the company. Malavasi's son, Gianluca, will be taking charge of Trunbull's ...
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Decathlon has confirmed its selection of the Bay Area for...
Decathlon has confirmed its selection of the Bay Area for its first major brick-and-mortar store in the U.S. There will be a three-day grand opening starting on Friday, April 12, at 3938 Horton Street in the East Bay Bridge shopping center in Emeryville, just outside Oakland, California. At 47,000 square ...
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The insatiable Mike Ashley has made an indicative takeover offer...
The insatiable Mike Ashley has made an indicative takeover offer for LK Bennett, according to the Financial Times. This major U.S.-based shoe and apparel retail chain, which is positioned in the upper-middle segment of the market, recently filed for administration, the British equivalent of bankruptcy protection. Acting through Sports Direct ...
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Asics has teamed up with iRewind to provide the runners...
Asics has teamed up with iRewind to provide the runners of its 10K race in London this summer with video footage of their performance. Based in Zurich, iRewind has developed a system that can capture footage, upload it to a cloud server, edit it automatically in accordance with previously set ...
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Mike Jensen has been made president of Reef, the beach...
Mike Jensen has been made president of Reef, the beach lifestyle brand recently divested by VF Corp. He was most recently the general manager and brand manager of DC Shoes at Boardriders. He previously worked for Asics, Spy and Converse. Jensen will report directly to Gregg Ribatt, the new chief ...
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Bernard Tapie, the maverick French investor and politician who owned...
Bernard Tapie, the maverick French investor and politician who owned Adidas for a few years until 1994, has been sent back to court for a new trial on charges of fraud and misuse of public funds. He had bought the then struggling company from the Dassler family with financial help ...
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The big German Otto Group, which deals in retailing, shopping...
The big German Otto Group, which deals in retailing, shopping centers and other activities, reports that its Otto.de web shop increased total sales by 8 percent to over €3 billion in its financial year to Feb. 28. Otto claims to be the world's largest distance retailer overall and the biggest ...
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Chiemsee, the German brand of boardsports clothing, has granted a license for...
Chiemsee, the German brand of boardsports clothing, has granted a license for footwear to another German company, MCB. Directed by Markus Bennemann, MCB has already made the second shoe collection for Chiemsee. The first collection for spring/summer 2019 is currently being delivered to the trade. For winter 2019/20, MCB recently presented the new ...
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Rapha, the London-based cycling clothing brand, is launching its first...
Rapha, the London-based cycling clothing brand, is launching its first custom clothing program, which allows customers to personalize products from the brand's core collection. Customers can create their bespoke cycling kit online, and this will be printed on demand and delivered within six weeks. The program is made possible by ...
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Brooks Running has promoted Dan Sheridan to the new post...
Brooks Running has promoted Dan Sheridan to the new post of executive vice president and chief operating officer. In heading up the sales, e-commerce, digital, supply-chain and IT teams, Sheridan will be spearheading the enterprise and digital platforms as well as the wholesale business and distributor partnerships worldwide. Sheridan's two ...
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Women's presence in the sport business is on the rise,...
Women’s presence in the sport business is on the rise, and that applies to clubs, businesses, products and customers alike. According to a study on “Women in Sport Business,” conducted by Ispo Munich 2019, two thirds of the manufacturers have products for women in their assortment. Nearly half (46 percent) ...
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A Swedish-based price comparison website, Prisjakt, recently held its Online...
A Swedish-based price comparison website, Prisjakt, recently held its Online Store of the Year 2018 competition, and over 120,000 users once again voted for Sportamore as the winner in the Sport category – in both Sweden and Finland. The Prisjakt awards have been handed out since 2010, when Sportamore received ...
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The second edition of the Sport Job Day is scheduled...
The second edition of the Sport Job Day is scheduled for May 16 at the Jean Boulin stadium in Paris. The organizers of the industry-specific job fair are the Union Sport & Cycle, the French trade association that groups 1,400 companies and 500 brands in the sports, leisure, cycling and ...
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Solvay and Lenzing have joined forces on the development of...
Solvay and Lenzing have joined forces on the development of a new sustainable fabric that combines two of their products: Amni Soul Eco biodegradable polyamide and Tencel-branded lyocell, respectively. The new fabric features Tencel on the back and Amni Soul Eco on the front. The Tencel side of the fabric ...
