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Paul Golbert, the founder of Pajar Canada, passed away on...
Paul Golbert, the founder of Pajar Canada, passed away on Dec. 25, at the age of 92. Pajar Canada, founded in 1963, is a five-generation family-owned footwear and outerwear company based in Montreal. Golbert was born in France in a shoemaking family, and emigrated to Canada in the 1950s, starting ...
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Ciesse Piumini was back at Pitti Immagine Uomo in Florence...
Ciesse Piumini was back at Pitti Immagine Uomo in Florence in January, after a ten-year absence from the trade show. The brand presented a capsule collection which takes inspiration from the 1980s' fashion trends. The Italian brand has plans to considerably expand its exports, currently accounting for only 10 percent ...
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Puma has unveiled the Clyde Court #Reform basketball shoe, inspired...
Puma has unveiled the Clyde Court #Reform basketball shoe, inspired by the hip-hop artist Meek Mill and the Olympic athlete Tommie Smith, who respectively have been championing criminal justice reform and universal equality. The sneakers are available for pre-sale on Puma's e-commerce website. The full release is scheduled for Feb. ...
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Jon Rucker has been promoted to president of the Winter...
Jon Rucker has been promoted to president of the Winter Sports Division at Head/Tyrolia USA, located in Boulder, Colorado. Rucker has been with Head for more than nine years and has spent the last seven as vice president of Winter Sports. According to Kevin Kempin, chief executive and president of ...
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Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor company, began supplying the SportScheck ski...
Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor company, began supplying the SportScheck ski school, Vivalpin, with products from its apparel collections at the beginning of this year. Haglöfs and Vivalpin made their initial contacts in May 2018, when Vivalpin provided mountain guides for SportScheck's “Consumer Activation” event. Haglöfs is trying to build brand awareness in ...
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Skechers USA has begun to expand its headquarters in California....
Skechers USA has begun to expand its headquarters in California. The project, overseen by David Forbes Hibbert of DFH Architects, will feature a design center of 100,000 square feet, add new executive offices along the Pacific Coast Highway in Hermosa Beach, double the offices, design studios and showrooms in the ...
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In a bid to stimulate innovation and diversification, particularly in...
In a bid to stimulate innovation and diversification, particularly in its important sports segment, Superdry has appointed a new creative director, Phil Dickinson, who held a number of senior roles at Nike, including global creative director for football and for Nike Sportswear. He was a creative director for Umbro while it ...
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Trerè Innovation, a big Italian knitwear manufacturer that works with...
Trerè Innovation, a big Italian knitwear manufacturer that works with Armani and Rossignol, is building a new research center at its headquarters in Asola. Called Areas – an acronym for Academy Research and Engineering for Apparel in Sports – the center is the result of a partnership with CeRiSM, the ...
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RTE, a Portuguese bike manufacturer that works only for Decathlon,...
RTE, a Portuguese bike manufacturer that works only for Decathlon, operating the biggest European bicycle assembly plant in Europe, has announced that it will open a bike manufacturing facility in Poland in 2021. The group already makes between 1.2 and 1.4 million units a year for Decathlon in Portugal. The ...
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Blaming strong competition from online retailers, Himaraya reported a drop...
Blaming strong competition from online retailers, Himaraya reported a drop of 1.4 percent to 34.6 percent in its gross margin for the first quarter of its financial year, ended on Nov. 30. The Japanese retailer's net loss expanded to 195 million yen (€1.56m-$1.78m) from ¥48 million in the year-ago period. ...
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Nike has re-opened a store, called Blue Ribbon Sports like...
Nike has re-opened a store, called Blue Ribbon Sports like the original name of the company, to serve as a community space for runners in Santa Monica, California. First opened in 1967 by Nike's first employee, the original Blue Ribbon Sports store served as a hang-out for so-called “oddball athletes.” ...
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On, the Swiss brand of running shoes, has signed a...
On, the Swiss brand of running shoes, has signed a sponsorship deal with the ZAP Endurance. Located in the town of Boone, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, ZAP Endurance is a non-profit, year-round training center for post-collegiate distance runners who hope to compete in the Olympics. Five ...
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Gore Wear and Madshus, the Norwegian brand of cross-country skis,...
Gore Wear and Madshus, the Norwegian brand of cross-country skis, have entered into a partnership for the autumn/winter 2018/19 season. The companies are pooling their social media resources, direct-to-consumer communications, and photo and video production centering around Ole-Einar Bjørndalen, the biathlete who has won the highest number of races. He ...
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United Sports Brands (USB) is shifting to a direct distribution...
United Sports Brands (USB) is shifting to a direct distribution mode in Spain, establishing a network of sales agents throughout the country for three of its brands: McDavid, which stands for sports medicine, protective gear and apparel; Shock Doctor, which specializes in mouthguards; and Nathan, which offers running accessories. USB's ...
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Vibram, inventor of the glove-like FiveFingers shoe, has made Burten...
Vibram, inventor of the glove-like FiveFingers shoe, has made Burten Distribution the exclusive U.S. distributor for its Furoshiki line of footwear. The Furoshiki shoe, also known as the Wrapping Sole, takes inspiration from the Japanese art of furoshiki, in which a given object is wrapped with a single length of ...
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Oakley, the California-based eyewear maker and subsidiary of Luxottica, has...
Oakley, the California-based eyewear maker and subsidiary of Luxottica, has filed a lawsuit in Illinois District Court against Third Coast Products. Based in Chicago, Third Coast owns the iLumen8 brand of eyewear, flashlights and magnifying glasses. Oakley is alleging that the iLumen8 UV safety glasses infringe on one of its ...
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E-bikes imported into the European Union (EU) from China will...
E-bikes imported into the European Union (EU) from China will be subject to tariffs varying between 18.8 and 79.3 percent, according to a filing in the EU's official journal. The measure is meant to curb the imports of cheap e-bikes from China, which may threaten the sales of pricier e-bikes ...
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Isbjörn of Sweden, which manufactures outdoor and ski clothes for...
Isbjörn of Sweden, which manufactures outdoor and ski clothes for children and teenagers, is launching a new brand profile. The Swedish flag is gone, the font has been modernized and the symbolic polar bear has been replaced with a figure symbolizing energy and joy. The new profile will be launched ...
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Lenzing and Hyosung will unveil a new sustainable fabric collection...
Lenzing and Hyosung will unveil a new sustainable fabric collection at the upcoming Ispo trade show, which will take place in Munich on Feb. 3-6. The collaborative collection for spring/summer 2020 combines Lenzing's Tencel Modal and Hyosung's Creora elastane. Thanks to this collaboration, Lenzing will introduce new versions of three ...
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Despite widespread, negative reports of construction delays, cost overruns, forced...
Despite widespread, negative reports of construction delays, cost overruns, forced evictions from the favelas (slums), a Zika epidemic and a suspiciously green pool, the 2016 Summer Olympic Games have proved to be of net economic benefit to the city and metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro, according to a study by ...
