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New Balance has kicked off the new year with an...
New Balance has kicked off the new year with an inspirational campaign based on a series of letters written by athletes to their “future selves,” which highlight how the goals and values of athletes drive their decisions. The letters are published on a new online content platform: The Players' Tribune. ...
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Puma has teamed up with the New York City Ballet...
Puma has teamed up with the New York City Ballet to create the Puma Swan Pack Collection. The launch of this new women's line comes as a follow up to Puma's “Do You” campaign, which featured ballet dancers. The campaign launched in August 2016. The Puma Swan Pack Collection features ...
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Faraday Bicycles, a supplier of lightweight electric bicycles based in...
Faraday Bicycles, a supplier of lightweight electric bicycles based in San Francisco, was acquired by Pon Holdings as of the start of this year. Faraday was established in 2012 by Adam Vollmer, a former design engineer, who is to remain its managing director, driving the brand's expansion with his team ...
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Based on preliminary customs data, Vietnam's shoe exports rose by...
Based on preliminary customs data, Vietnam's shoe exports rose by only 8 percent in 2015, or two percentage points less than previously expected by the government and by the country's shoe industry association, Lefaso. Shoe exports reached a level of about $12.3 billion, below the target of $17 billion. Small ...
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Decathlon has become an Official Partner of the Olympic Committee...
Decathlon has become an Official Partner of the Olympic Committee (CNOSF) until the end of 2018. The French retailer was already a partner of CNOSF's “Sentez vous sport” week, an initiative for the promotion of physical activity in France. In 2017, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will announce the ...
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Suunto will become the official timing partner of Great Swim,...
Suunto will become the official timing partner of Great Swim, Europe's biggest open water swim series, for the 2017 season. As part of the deal, the Finnish brand will also become the title sponsor of the London event. The Great Swim is held in lakes, lochs and urban docks, and ...
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Michael Maier has been named by Fitbit as country manager...
Michael Maier has been named by Fitbit as country manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, replacing Marco Raimann who is now working as key account manager of the company for the Media-Saturn chain of electronic stores. Maier has been with several consumer electronics, most recently with Electrolux.
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Nike and Patagonia have been honored at the World Economic...
Nike and Patagonia have been honored at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland for their efforts in reducing waste in their products and operations. The two companies were the joint winners of the Accenture Strategy Award for Circular Economy Multinational. The award is one of the seven given out ...
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Belle International, the leading Chinese footwear and sports retailer, saw...
Belle International, the leading Chinese footwear and sports retailer, saw an increase of 4.6 percent in the comparable store sales of its sportswear and apparel stores in mainland China for the third quarter of its fiscal year, compared with a comparable store sales decline of 13.4 percent for the group's ...
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Brooks Running, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, has promoted Dan...
Brooks Running, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, has promoted Dan Sheridan to executive vice president, general manager of global sales. Sheridan has been with Brooks for 19 years, during which he has led business development, sales, e-commerce, regional marketing execution and customer service in North America.
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Elzbieta Bienkowska, the European Union's commissioner for the internal market,...
Elzbieta Bienkowska, the European Union's commissioner for the internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and small & medium-sized enterprises, has agreed to participate in a CEO meeting organized by the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) during the Ispo Munich show next month. The purpose of the meeting is to ...
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Première Vision, the big fabrics trade show in Paris, is...
Première Vision, the big fabrics trade show in Paris, is adding a “Wearable Lab” at its next session on Feb. 7-9. Too bad that it's going to overlap with Ispo Munich, where wearables will again be a big topic. Digitsole, which already showed its technology at Ispo last year, will ...
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Gerfried Schuller, the founder of Blue Tomato, is reportedly leaving...
Gerfried Schuller, the founder of Blue Tomato, is reportedly leaving the action sports retailer he established nearly three decades ago. He will step down as managing director from the start of February, although he will remain involved with Blue Tomato as a strategic consultant. Ispo.com reports that Schuller's function as ...
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Luxottica, parent company of Oakley, Ray-Ban and many other brands...
Luxottica, parent company of Oakley, Ray-Ban and many other brands of sunglasses, has agreed to merge with Essilor, the world's largest supplier of ophthalmic lenses in an all-stock deal that values the Italian company at €22.8 billion. The combined company will have market capitalization of more than €50 billion and ...
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Together with the two other footwear brands of the recently...
Together with the two other footwear brands of the recently formed Rockport Group – Aravon and Dunham - Rockport is moving its global corporate headquarters from Canton, Massachusetts to another town in the Greater Boston Area. The new head office of the group is located in West Newton and offers ...
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Original Buff is teaming up with the Scott Sports Group...
Original Buff is teaming up with the Scott Sports Group to sponsor a new Buff Scott MTB Team of Spanish mountain bike riders, which will start participating in several national and international races this month. The Spanish supplier of creative headwear and bandanas has already been a licensee of the ...
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Cobra Puma Golf has signed a comprehensive partnership with Carly...
Cobra Puma Golf has signed a comprehensive partnership with Carly Booth ahead of the 2017 season. Booth, the 24-year-old Scottish player who has already won the Ladies European Tour (LET) twice, has agreed to wear Puma apparel and footwear, and to use Cobra equipment. Previously pictured wearing Nike golf apparel, ...
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Sport Zone, the leading Portuguese sporting goods retail chain, has...
Sport Zone, the leading Portuguese sporting goods retail chain, has decided to centralize purchases for the Iberian Peninsula to increase efficiencies and achieve new economies of scale. It will close company's purchasing office in Madrid, which was handling purchases for the 44 stores that Sport Zone is currently operating in ...
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Gilbert “Gib” Ford, former chairman and chief executive of Converse,...
Gilbert “Gib” Ford, former chairman and chief executive of Converse, died from pulmonary fibrosis on Jan. 10. He was 85. He spent 35 years with Converse until 1996, the last ten running the company, which subsequently went bankrupt in 2002. Before joining the brand, he had an illustrious career as ...
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Jean Vuarnet, the French ski champion who gave his name...
Jean Vuarnet, the French ski champion who gave his name to the winter sports and eyewear brand, passed away early this year in Sallanches, at the age of 83. He won a gold medal in downhill skiing at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley in 1960 and became famous for ...
