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Rio Ferdinand, a retired English football player, has teamed up...
Rio Ferdinand, a retired English football player, has teamed up with Sports Direct to launch Five, a range of hoodies, tee-shirts, sweat pants and snapbacks with prices starting from £8 (€9-$11). The range is named after the number worn by Ferdinand, who played as center back in the England team ...
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Michal Zbierajewski, a former manager of Sanita's production facilities in...
Michal Zbierajewski, a former manager of Sanita's production facilities in Poland, has teamed up with a Danish partner for the launch in Europe of a a new disc-based shoe lacing system, called Uturn. Developed by a Korean sports technology company, ShinKyung, it is said to be more stable, functional and ...
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Ispo will organize the first Ispo Munich Night Run on...
Ispo will organize the first Ispo Munich Night Run on Jan. 27. The 5 or 10-km trail run contest will start at 6 pm on the eve of the trade show in Munich's Olympia Park. Paying €20 for snacks, drinks and medical coverage, the participants will receive a certificate and ...
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Fischer Sports says its Skiletics videos have triggered at least...
Fischer Sports says its Skiletics videos have triggered at least three times more clicks than any other campaign aired at the same time. The videos, which are available free of charge on the company's website and through youtube, propose a total body conditioning program for cross-country skiers. It shows a ...
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Major Sports will handle sales of its Tecnifibre line of...
Major Sports will handle sales of its Tecnifibre line of products in the German market directly from its head office in France. By mutual agreement, Major will part ways with MTS Sportartikel Vertriebs as its German distributor, after 25 years of collaboration. Mark Holldorf, who worked for Tecnifibre at MTS, ...
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About 100 people attended the first Ispo Academy held in...
About 100 people attended the first Ispo Academy held in India last week, as part of the second Global Sports Business Show organized by The Times of India in Mumbai. The central topic of this inaugural Indian academy was digital technology in sports apparel manufacturing, as suppliers are eager to ...
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Billabong International‘s shares gained more than 15 percent after the...
Billabong International‘s shares gained more than 15 percent after the group's annual shareholders' meeting this week, where investors heard about numerous initiatives to improve Billabong's business in the Asia-Pacific region. Billabong's results for the full year until the end of June showed major improvements in some indicators in the Americas ...
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Puma, which was recently accused of damaging a 17th-century building...
Puma, which was recently accused of damaging a 17th-century building in Delhi with the painting for a shoe commercial, will restore the site to its original aspect. According to reports by FashionNetwork.com, the German sportswear brand has directed the agency responsible for causing the damage to restore the building to ...
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Haute couture will meet sports during the 2018 New York...
Haute couture will meet sports during the 2018 New York Fashion Week when Performance Days will stage a trade fair introducing functional sports fabrics. Performance Days, the biannual fabrics show for the sports and outdoor industry held in Munich, will stage a trade event in the penthouse of New York's ...
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Pentland has been honored with the 22nd annual Global Family...
Pentland has been honored with the 22nd annual Global Family Business Award by IMD, a top-ranked business school. The group received the award on the occasion of the 28th Summit of the Family Business Network International (FBN-I), which took place in Gran Canaria on Nov. 8-11. The Global Family Business ...
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Lenzing has reported a revenue increase of 9.4 percent to...
Lenzing has reported a revenue increase of 9.4 percent to €1.7 billion for the first nine months of 2017, mainly driven by higher prices for its fibers. During the third quarter, the company launched Tencel Luxe, a premium fiber, and opened an innovation center in Hong Kong. Lenzing is building ...
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Technogym has reported a sales increase of 7.5 percent to...
Technogym has reported a sales increase of 7.5 percent to €413.8 million for the first nine months of this year, with growth of 8.1 percent in local currencies. The strongest growth occurred in the wholesale channel, up by 9.1 percent to €88.8 million. Both Italy and the rest of Europe, ...
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Xebio reports a 51.6 percent increase in net income to...
Xebio reports a 51.6 percent increase in net income to 3,724 million yen (€28.2m-$33.2m) for the first half ended Sept. 30. While the total floor space remained flat at 193,098 square meters, the Japanese sporting goods retailer's sales were up by 3.4 percent to ¥116.8 billion (€884.6m-$1,042.3m) during the period, with an ...
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Lynx Golf has announced the acquisition of the global Lynx...
Lynx Golf has announced the acquisition of the global Lynx trademark portfolio from Dick's Sporting Goods. The move will allow the British, family-owned golf equipment company to expand globally, beyond its current U.K. and European markets. The trademarks have been purchased for an undisclosed amount. Lynx Golf reportedly seeks a ...
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As part of the partnership between Adidas and Zalando, customers...
As part of the partnership between Adidas and Zalando, customers can create their own sneakers through Zalando.de. This has been an option for several years on the Adidas brand's online store with Miadidas, which enables consumers to pick their own colors, materials and soles. That same option has become available ...
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Adidas, Nike and Rapha Racing were among the winners this...
Adidas, Nike and Rapha Racing were among the winners this year at the International Retail Property Market (Mapic) in Cannes earlier this month. Nike was named “Retailer of the Year.” Adidas' new flagship store on New York's Fifth Avenue was crowned for “Best Store Design.” Rapha's “clubhouse” cycling stores were ...
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Kasper Rorsted, chief executive at the Adidas Group, was quoted...
Kasper Rorsted, chief executive at the Adidas Group, was quoted as saying in Bild am Sonntag during the weekend that the company would have a problem if one of its partners was found guilty of breaking the law. The quote was placed in the context of the Adidas group's partnership ...
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Adidas is a winner of the second Stop Slavery Award,...
Adidas is a winner of the second Stop Slavery Award, an initiative by the Thomson Reuters Foundation to honor companies that have taken concrete steps to eradicate forced labor from their supply chains. Adidas leads a group of four winning companies which also includes C&A, Intel and The Co-Operative Group. ...
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AFL-CIO, the American labor union, has asked Nike to disclose...
AFL-CIO, the American labor union, has asked Nike to disclose a formal set of tax principles to which it is committed following the disclosures in the Paradise Papers of the tax loopholes used by the company and other multi-nationals (see our previous issue). AFL-CIO, which is also a shareholder in ...
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After confirming the high degree of its reputation in Norway...
After confirming the high degree of its reputation in Norway through a survey among retailers and customers, Rottefella has decided to launch its first full-fledged collection of clothing. The Norwegian brand of cross-country ski bindings says the new brand-building initiative will not be restricted to apparel for Nordic skiing. The ...
