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Hickies, the clever American shoe lacing system, has been ordered...
Hickies, the clever American shoe lacing system, has been ordered by retailers operating 400 Intersport stores in Germany, accounting for about 16-17 percent of all Intersport stores in Germany, as well as by members of Intersport Austria. From autumn 2016, Hickies will also be sold by Intersport in England and ...
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The U.K. Federation of Sport & Play Associations (FSPA) is...
The U.K. Federation of Sport & Play Associations (FSPA) is urging the British government to stimulate more physical activity for children as part of its strategy against child obesity. It wants the government to reinvest revenues from a “sugar tax” on programs that would promote physical activity and balanced diets ...
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Andrew Cooper has been named president of Sequential Brands, reporting...
Andrew Cooper has been named president of Sequential Brands, reporting to Yehuda Shmidman, chief executive of the parent company of And 1, Avia, Revo and other brands. He was previously senior vice president of Priceline.com and then a partner of Pegasus Capital Advisors
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Sport-Tone, a French start-up based in Grenoble, has announced the...
Sport-Tone, a French start-up based in Grenoble, has announced the development of the first sports goggle that enables listening to music through bone conduction, which is the conduction of sound to the inner ear through the bones of the skull. The new goggle is called Stone and is composed of ...
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Engineers at Stanford University have announced the development of a...
Engineers at Stanford University have announced the development of a plastic-derived textile, which is said to cool the skin more efficiently than is possible with the natural or synthetic fabrics in clothes that we wear today. Describing their work in Science, the researchers of the Californian university said the new ...
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Pearl Izumi, the cycling apparel and footwear brand that belongs...
Pearl Izumi, the cycling apparel and footwear brand that belongs to the Shimano group, has decided to pull out of the running category and instead focus on cycling. The exit from the running business, which makes up just over 10 percent of Pearl Izumi's turnover, is effective from January 2017. ...
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Fischer has appointed for the first time a marketing manager,...
Fischer has appointed for the first time a marketing manager, Jan Ekmark, who will restructure the existing marketing team of the Austrian ski company and cover digital marketing, sports marketing, trade marketing and other domains. Born in Sweden, Ekmark spent more than seven years with Adidas before he joined the ...
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Canada Goose has appointed Lee Turlington to the new position...
Canada Goose has appointed Lee Turlington to the new position of chief product officer and Kevin Spreekmeester to the new position of chief brand officer. Turlington, who worked previously in leading roles for Nike, Patagonia, The North Face and Fila, had been a consultant of Canada Goose over the last ...
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Wintersteiger, the Austrian manufacturer of ski maintenance and service machinery...
Wintersteiger, the Austrian manufacturer of ski maintenance and service machinery and storing solutions, appointed Florestan von Boxberg, 54, as its new chief executive, or head of its board of management. He takes the place left vacant a year ago by the departure of Reiner Thalacker. Von Boxberg worked as project ...
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New Balance will replace Umbro as the sponsor of the...
New Balance will replace Umbro as the sponsor of the Everton football club in the U.K. The brand has also taken the place of Nike as sponsor of Kevin Mirallas, the Belgian champion who is playing for the British team.
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Mizuno has been named as Official Supplier of golf equipment...
Mizuno has been named as Official Supplier of golf equipment of the 2016 “British Masters supported by Sky Sports,” which will be hosted at The Grove in Hertfordshire, U.K., on Oct. 13-16. Mizuno will showcase its latest product ranges in the spectator village, and spectators will have an opportunity to ...
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Thule has introduced the new EasyFold XT bike carrier, an...
Thule has introduced the new EasyFold XT bike carrier, an evolution of the EasyFold. The mounting of the new EasyFold XT on the towbar is said to require minimum effort thanks to the innovative coupling. Once the bikes are loaded, the trunk of the car remains accessible thanks to a ...
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Björn Borg has chosen Patrik Nilsson as the next Game...
Björn Borg has chosen Patrik Nilsson as the next Game Changer Ambassador for the brand. The 24-year-old athlete from Sweden is an Ironman record holder and two-time Ironman Champion. Nilsson is a former swimmer who later got into running, and then to triathlon. He holds the Swedish Ironman record of ...
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Puma has struck an endorsement deal with Petr Cech, the...
Puma has struck an endorsement deal with Petr Cech, the goalkeeper at the Arsenal football club, who holds the record for the largest number of games with a clean sheet in the Premier League. The company says the former Czech national team's captain, who was previously with Adidas, is the ...
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Joma has converted its store in the Xanadù shopping center...
Joma has converted its store in the Xanadù shopping center of Madrid to its main brand store, after a major renovation. The brand has 14 stores all over Spain. They will grow to 15 by the end of this year.
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Stadium, Sweden's largest sporting goods chain continues to switch its...
Stadium, Sweden's largest sporting goods chain continues to switch its management. Magnus Wåhlander will now be leaving his role as country manager in Sweden and become instead HR Director in charge of all personnel within the international retail chain. The new Swedish country manager is Mattias Johansson. He joined Stadium ...
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Oliver Wöhrl has given up as chief executive of Wöhrl,...
Oliver Wöhrl has given up as chief executive of Wöhrl, a major German department store chain owned by his family that is trying to avoid insolvency proceedings after applying for bankruptcy protection for one of its subsidiaries. The head of the supervisory board, Andreas E. Mach, is taking over his ...
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China Dongxiang says that a clearer positioning and an improved...
China Dongxiang says that a clearer positioning and an improved product mix for its online sales channel have helped to raise its sales by 8.9 percent to 650 million yuan renminbi (€86.4m-$97.3m) for the first half of this year. The Chinese sportswear group, which owns Phenix and rights to the ...
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Officials of Intersport France decline to comment until next Tuesday...
Officials of Intersport France decline to comment until next Tuesday about a report in sport-guide.com that Corinne Gensollen, 48, will be the new general manager of the French retail group. She would take the place of François Neukirch, who is planning to start up his own Intersport store at Herblay ...
