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Major League Baseball has opened its first stand-alone space in...
Major League Baseball has opened its first stand-alone space in Europe as a pop-up store in the Covent Garden district of London. It will stay open until the end of this year. Reportedly, MLB was going to hold a professional game in London before the end of 2017, but the ...
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Bauer Hockey has signed up four world-standard female hockey players....
Bauer Hockey has signed up four world-standard female hockey players. The brand will also run ten women-only First Shift events throughout Canada this season. Introduced three years ago, this kind of event is designed to attract new players to the sport.
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On paper, July seems to have been a weak month...
On paper, July seems to have been a weak month for sporting goods retailers in Sweden as their sales fell by 0.2 percent as compared to the same month a year ago. It was a show of strength, however, considering that sales had risen by a full 13.4 percent in ...
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Head has been named an international partner of the Davis...
Head has been named an international partner of the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas. As part of its new three-year agreement with the International Tennis Federation, starting January 2017, Head will produce and sell Davis Cup-branded tennis balls throughout the world. The Davis Cup, which was instituted in 1900, is ...
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Incentives for fitness participation are being introduced in France for...
Incentives for fitness participation are being introduced in France for companies subscribing to a new collective insurance policy for their employees, called Generali Vitality. The contract is a partnership between Generali and Discovery, a South African insurance company that has reportedly made similar deals with Prudential Insurance in the U.K., ...
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The first flagship store of Bergans of Norway recently opened...
The first flagship store of Bergans of Norway recently opened its doors, covering 800 square meters on two floors at a strategically location near Oslo's City Hall. It displays the entire product range of the Norwegian company - both hardware and softgoods. The store is meant to portray Bergans as ...
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Moncler's were the best-performing stock in Milan's FTSE MIB -...
Moncler's were the best-performing stock in Milan's FTSE MIB - the index of the 40 most-traded stock classes on the exchange - on Sept. 15, with a 3.8 percent gain, following rumors of a possible investment in the Italian luxury clothing brand by Fosun International. Fosun, founded in 1992 by ...
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ZEG, the biggest cooperative of independent bike dealers in Europe,...
ZEG, the biggest cooperative of independent bike dealers in Europe, has announced that it will pull out of the Eurobike show in Friedrichshafen. It will invest more of its resources in the ZEG Bike Show in its home town of Cologne, opening it up to non-members. Its next show is ...
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Matt, a Spanish brand of gloves, headbands, caps, hats, scarves...
Matt, a Spanish brand of gloves, headbands, caps, hats, scarves and other accessories for winter and outdoor sports, has been acquired by Excens, a Spanish group involved in sports and logistics. Synergies are expected with two of its brands, TRS Motorcyles and Hebolution Parts (or just Hebo), which stand for ...
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Casall, the Swedish fitness brand, is returning to the Dutch...
Casall, the Swedish fitness brand, is returning to the Dutch and Belgian markets through a distribution agreement that started earlier this year with the Flow Sports Group. This Dutch-based company sells its own equipment brand as well as Casall and Gaiam products. The Dutch customers include Topshelf, the chain of ...
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Joma has launched a new brand campaign entitled “Exercise your...
Joma has launched a new brand campaign entitled “Exercise your freedom.” The core message of the campaign, which goes beyond sport, focuses on the importance of pursuing freedom in any situation. The campaign first appeared in Spain on Sept. 12, both on national TV and digital channels, and will be ...
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Jonas Netterström will take the helm as chief executive at...
Jonas Netterström will take the helm as chief executive at Cycleurope at the end of this year. Netterström currently serves as CEO of an investment company, Elajo Invest. The Swedish bicycle company has been without a CEO since Mårten Nydahl quit in the early summer. Since then, the company's chairman, ...
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Federico Musi is the new chief executive of Look Cycle,...
Federico Musi is the new chief executive of Look Cycle, replacing Dominique Bergin who sold a majority stake in the French company this summer to an investment fund, Activa Capital. Musi is described as a multi-lingual, 44-year-old manager who covers 5,000 km each year on his bike. The Italian native ...
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Eduardo Indo, editor of OKDiario, claims that Nike has tabled...
Eduardo Indo, editor of OKDiario, claims that Nike has tabled an offer worth €120 million per year to take over the sponsorship of Real Madrid, according to several media reports. The Spanish club has been outfitted by Adidas since 1998. Neither party has confirmed such an exorbitant offer, but there ...
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Isbjörn of Sweden has established a new company in Norway,...
Isbjörn of Sweden has established a new company in Norway, which is the company's second largest market. The current agent in Norway, Sport Agile, will continue to be responsible for the distribution of the brand's products until March 1, 2017. The brand is owned by Nordic Kids Wear. It offers ...
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Three sports-related conventions are taking place in Spain this month....
Three sports-related conventions are taking place in Spain this month. More than 130 managers attended the new Sport Business Day, a national conference organized by Diffusion Sport in Madrid on Sept. 20. A few days later, on Sept. 28-29, the European Outdoor Summit in Barcelona is set to welcome more ...
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Nike has signed up Jason Day, the current top-ranked golfer,...
Nike has signed up Jason Day, the current top-ranked golfer, for shoes and apparel, according to ESPN. The deal is reportedly worth $10 million a year. It was made possible by the fact that Day recently re-signed an equipment contract with TaylorMade and that Nike is exiting the golf equipment ...
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Shimano Europe will implement a new pricing strategy from next...
Shimano Europe will implement a new pricing strategy from next year, which aims to harmonize pricing between its own sales offices in Europe and to switch from a volume-driven to a value-based pricing strategy. While Shimano's customers previously obtained discounts based on the size of their orders, the new pricing ...
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The Tecnica-Blizzard freeride team has welcomed Eva Walkner as a...
The Tecnica-Blizzard freeride team has welcomed Eva Walkner as a member. The Austrian skier, 37, has won the female Championship Freeride World Tour for two seasons. Walkner is currently training for the next season, which will start in Chamonix on Jan. 27, 2017. Tecnica said the skier will play an ...
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The organizers of the first Sport-Achat fair in Nantes, which...
The organizers of the first Sport-Achat fair in Nantes, which was held a few days after the same fair in Lyon to target buyers from the western half of France, are likely to adjust the timing of the second edition. Although the response was satisfactory, it turned out that quite ...
