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More than 30,000 visitors - mostly consumers - attended the...
More than 30,000 visitors - mostly consumers - attended the Bread & Butter fashion festival in Berlin on Sept. 1-3. Sport and streetwear were a big theme with brands such as Adidas, Asics, Fila, Nike, Puma, Reebok and Converse. Many gave presents to the visitors. High-intensity workouts with celebrities were ...
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Ping Europe has been fined £1.45 million (€1.7m-$1.9m) by the...
Ping Europe has been fined £1.45 million (€1.7m-$1.9m) by the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for preventing two British retailers from selling its golf clubs on their websites. The CMA has required Ping to stop the ban and to avoid any equivalent ban on other retailers. According to the ...
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Giant Manufacturing saw its comprehensive net income jump by 137...
Giant Manufacturing saw its comprehensive net income jump by 137 percent to 1,129.7 million Taiwan dollars (€31.6m-$37.5m) in the second quarter. Excluding a foreign currency gain of NT$ 962 million (€26.9m-$31.9m) and other extraordinary items, profits slipped by 19 percent to NT$ 677.7 million (€19.0m-$22.5m) as revenues fell by 9 percent to ...
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Gary Bryant, who has been with Amer Sports for 14...
Gary Bryant, who has been with Amer Sports for 14 years, is going to serve as general manager for its cycling division, which includes Mavic and Enve, following the resignation of Bernard Millaud, who has led it for 15 years. Bryant, who is a British citizen, has served most recently ...
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Taipei Cycle 2018 will be held from the end of...
Taipei Cycle 2018 will be held from the end of October to the beginning of November. The re-scheduling of the show will lead to a split with TaiSpo, which is still scheduled for March 8-10 next year. For the first time since 2011, the two events will be held separately. ...
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Amer Sports has revised its growth target through 2020, prioritizing...
Amer Sports has revised its growth target through 2020, prioritizing sustainable profitable growth. Instead of a minimum mid-single-digit growth rate on an organic and currency-neutral basis, which would have taken its turnover up to €3.5 billion by 2020, it is now simply aiming for mid-single-digit growth. The group said the ...
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Nike has teamed up with Virgil Abloh, the 36-year-old American...
Nike has teamed up with Virgil Abloh, the 36-year-old American designer, on ten collaborative footwear silhouettes. The collection, named “The Ten,” reimagines ten classic shoes, and is divided into two themes – “Revealing” and “Ghosting.” The collection comprises the Nike Air Max 90, Air Jordan I, Nike Air VaporMax, Nike ...
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Standard Life Aberdeen of Edinburgh and other major independent shareholders...
Standard Life Aberdeen of Edinburgh and other major independent shareholders in Sports Direct International said on Friday that they will vote against the re-election of Keith Hellawell, chairman of the company, and Simon Bentley, one of its directors, at the company's annual meeting scheduled for next Wednesday. They are also ...
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Nike is about to release a version of its Air...
Nike is about to release a version of its Air Max 97 shoe featuring Swarovski crystals, as part of the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the iconic sneaker. The Swarovski crystals are embedded into the upper of the shoe. It is the first time that Nike Women has used ...
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Active Brands has announced its continued commitment to Johaug, its...
Active Brands has announced its continued commitment to Johaug, its women's sportswear brand, in spite of an 18-month suspension competition decreed for Therese Johaug, the Norwegian cross-country skiing star who the brand is named after. She was recently banned from competition by a judge following a doping charge, but the ...
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Adidas and Concepts, a progressive American streetwear retailer, a few...
Adidas and Concepts, a progressive American streetwear retailer, a few days ago launched a co-branded boutique at 73 Newbury Street, in downtown Boston. Featuring a minimalist design, the 1,500-square-foot store will offer trendy Adidas sneakers and performance shoes along with Concepts clothing. It will host art installations, DJs and other ...
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Adidas has announced that it is the new outfitter of...
Adidas has announced that it is the new outfitter of Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst. The duo of German beach volleyball players won the gold medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Adidas will be sponsoring them in view of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, and additional joint projects will ...
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A.S. Adventure, the big European outdoor retailer based in Belgium...
A.S. Adventure, the big European outdoor retailer based in Belgium that already owns several other chains including Bever in the Netherlands and Cotswold Outdoor and Snow + Rock in the U.K., has signed a deal for the takeover of McTrek Outdoor Sports, a proftable German chain of 39 outdoor shops, ...
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After focusing on the tennis-inspired lifestyle apparel market, Lacoste has...
After focusing on the tennis-inspired lifestyle apparel market, Lacoste has invested in tennis hardware by acquiring an 80 percent stake in Major Sports, the parent company of Tecnifibre, which is a big player in the global market for tennis strings. It also sells tennis racquets and balls, the latter through ...
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Sports Direct has launched a legal claim in Iceland against...
Sports Direct has launched a legal claim in Iceland against Ingibjorg Palmadottir and Sigurdur Palmi Sigurbjornsson, the wife and stepson of Jon Asgeir Johannesson, the disgraced former boss of Baugur. The British sportswear retailer led by Mike Ashley is suing Sigurbjornsson and two companies, Guru Invest and Rhapsody Investments, linked ...
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Philippe Plein, a German fashion designer who a year ago...
Philippe Plein, a German fashion designer who a year ago offered his first high-end line of sports shoes and clothing, called Plein Sport, has signed up Floyd Mayweather, the 40-year-old American boxing champion. Plein announced the two-year contract shortly before Mayweather came out of a two-year retirement to win a ...
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Boardriders has appointed Alexandre Malsch as global digital brand manager...
Boardriders has appointed Alexandre Malsch as global digital brand manager for Quiksilver and Roxy, based at its European headquarters on the Basque Coast of France and reporting to the company's chief executive, Pierre Agnès. Nine years ago the 32-year-old manager co-founded a French online media group, the Melty Group, and ...
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Arc'teryx Equipment has released a voluntary product recall of all...
Arc'teryx Equipment has released a voluntary product recall of all 2016 Procline boots, both men's and women's, in cooperation with Health Canada and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. These products present a possible safety hazard with the axis pin, which keeps the spoiler and the rotating cuff in place. ...
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Apparently encouraged by the success of its sneakers in America,...
Apparently encouraged by the success of its sneakers in America, Adidas is taking a more active role in U.S. sports. It has just signed the fourth-highest college sports deal in the U.S., committing to the payment of $160 million over a 10-year period to sponsor the University of Louisville in ...
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Following other American business leaders, Kevin Plank, founder and chief...
Following other American business leaders, Kevin Plank, founder and chief executive of Under Armour, resigned from Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council after the U.S. president failed to criticize an outburst of white suprematist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia in mid-August. Plank had been initially an enthusiastic supporter of Trump because of ...
