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Mizuno has signed up as the official sportswear partner of...
Mizuno has signed up as the official sportswear partner of British Rowing for the next four years, until the end of 2020, covering the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo as well. The deal is said to be a first for the British rowing team, which will get specially adapted ...
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Retail bankruptcies and the closing of some 1,200 stores in...
Retail bankruptcies and the closing of some 1,200 stores in the U.S. in the past year affected Hanesbrands, the parent company of Champion, which reported results below expectations for the fourth quarter and the full financial year. The company's total revenues grew by 11.8 percent to $1.56 billion in the ...
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Erima reports a sales increase of nearly 11 percent to...
Erima reports a sales increase of nearly 11 percent to a record of €65 million in 2016, thanks in particular to its new Razor 2.0 line of team sports clothing and its new Hybrid line of footballs. It was the third annual double-digit increase in a row for the German ...
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Fimbulvetr won the Ispo 2017/18 award in the eco achievement...
Fimbulvetr won the Ispo 2017/18 award in the eco achievement hardware category for its “Tankr” product of snow shoes, which are made in Norway by production partners within an hour's drive of the company's headquarters. The company started to sell its products to the Norwegian army and launched the products ...
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Adidas has promoted Arthur Hoeld to the position of senior...
Adidas has promoted Arthur Hoeld to the position of senior vice president of brand strategy and business development. The manager, who has been with the group since 1998, is getting rewarded for his successful work as general manager of its fast-growing Adidas Originals segment since 2011, first as senior vice ...
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Adidas has filed a lawsuit against Puma in the federal...
Adidas has filed a lawsuit against Puma in the federal court of Portland, Oregon, charging that the four stripes on the Empower Vigor 1 Camo FG cleated shoe create confusion in the market with its own three-stride trademark. The stripes on Puma's shoe appear as extensions of the lacing system, ...
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Adidas and Burberry won a “Gold Class” award in the...
Adidas and Burberry won a “Gold Class” award in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) carried out by RobecoSAM among 840 companies that are included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Both companies got a score of 60 points or more. Kering, parent company of Puma, qualified for Silver Class with ...
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SRAM has announced the discontinuation of the production of all...
SRAM has announced the discontinuation of the production of all internal gear hub (IGH), shifters and spare parts. The announcement was made through a letter addressed by the U.S. component maker to its original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers on Feb. 14, although SRAM said all larger OEM customers had been ...
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The states of Colorado, Montana and Oregon have all expressed...
The states of Colorado, Montana and Oregon have all expressed interest in hosting the Outdoor Retailer show after the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) announced that it was looking for a new venue as soon as possible. A final decision to withdraw OR from Salt Lake City could be made within ...
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The Scandinavian Outdoor Group named Devold, which also got an...
The Scandinavian Outdoor Group named Devold, which also got an Ispo Gold Award, as the overall winner of the SOG Awards for the autumn/winter 2017/18 season at Ispo. Picture Organic, which uses mostly recycled materials in its technical garments, came out as the winner of the French Outdoor Award ...
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Lenzing has announced that its viscose and modal fibers have...
Lenzing has announced that its viscose and modal fibers have been granted the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Certified Biobased Product label. Lenzing's lyocell Tencel fiber was certified as 100 percent biobased in 2011, while its FR fiber has been certified as 99 percent biobased, with the remaining 1 percent ...
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Patagonia has announced an exclusive research partnership with HeiQ to...
Patagonia has announced an exclusive research partnership with HeiQ to explore ways for a sustainable textile finishing technology to achieve high-performance breathable and durable water repellence (DWR). HeiQ, a Swiss innovator of textile technologies, already makes several fluorine-free DWR technologies, including Eco Dry, its non-PFC based repellent textile technology.
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Victorinox has decided to stop marketing a collection of apparel...
Victorinox has decided to stop marketing a collection of apparel by the end of this year. It will still sell a line for autumn/winter 2017/18 in Japan, but its involvement in the segment will end elsewhere after the spring/summer 2017 line. The Swiss company has been marketing its quite functional ...
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Pou Sheng International has appointed Lee Shao-Wu as chief executive...
Pou Sheng International has appointed Lee Shao-Wu as chief executive officer. He replaces Kwan Heh-Der, who resigned in January after accounting irregularities were discovered at the sportswear retailer. Pou Sheng is owned by Yue Yuen Industrial Limited. Prior to his new appointment at the head of Pou Sheng, Shao-Wu served ...
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Reebok gathered athletes, brand partners and volunteers in four cities...
Reebok gathered athletes, brand partners and volunteers in four cities around the world on Feb. 8, to try to break some of the fitness-based titles featured in the Guinness World Record in 24 hours using Reebok's Nano 7 training footwear. The attempts took place in New York City, Los Angeles, ...
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Wintersteiger came out as the overall Ispo Gold Award winner...
Wintersteiger came out as the overall Ispo Gold Award winner with a foot scanner that it is proposing for the fitting of ski boots. It developed a specific software for the very quick process in cooperation with a Swedish specialist in 3D scanning, Volumental.
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Bob Philion, who has been president and chief executive at...
Bob Philion, who has been president and chief executive at Cobra Puma Golf for the last seven years, has been appointed to take over from Jay Piccola as president of Puma North America. Puma had already announced last year that Piccola would retire around the middle of 2017 after nearly ...
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Vist, the Italian ski and fashion brand, has been selling...
Vist, the Italian ski and fashion brand, has been selling directly in Germany and Austria since the beginning of the year. It was previously working with a distributor. Moreno di Vece, who worked for almost 30 years for Bogner, assumed the position of sales director for Germany and Austria in ...
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Roger Spatz, who has been the president of Eagle Creek...
Roger Spatz, who has been the president of Eagle Creek since 2011, will also serve as president of Reef, another brand of VF Corp. He had already been the chief financial officer of Reef for a brief period during his 12-year tenure at VF.
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Booked to capacity, last week's Ispo Beijing show hosted a...
Booked to capacity, last week's Ispo Beijing show hosted a record of 502 exhibitors, seven percent more than a year ago. They represented 728 brands. Eighty-three percent of them came from China.
