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    Adidas opens Home Of Sport concept store in Mumbai

    2024-02-29T12:51:00Z

    Adidas has opened a Home Of Sport concept store in Mumbai on Linking Road with a retail space of 585 sqm over four floors, according to LinkedIn. The store has the first ever “Run Lab” in India, offers a “Made for you” zone where customers can co-create designs in collaboration ...

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    Agassi joins another pickleball board

    2024-02-28T16:53:00Z

    Life Time, a publicly traded holding company for athletic and country clubs and related services, has made Andre Agassi the first Chairman of its new Pickleball and Tennis Board. Company Chairman and CEO Bahram Akradi will serve on the board alongside Agassi as Co-Chairman. Source: Life Time ...

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    Asics drops new Metaspeed models

    2024-02-28T16:10:00Z

    Asics has launched two new models in the flagship Metaspeed series called the Metaspeed Sky Paris and the Metaspeed Edge Paris. The shoes combine Asics’ top technologies to “support runners who want to feel and perform at their best when chasing down new personal bests,“ the brand ...

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    Vogue to host fashion show to kick off Paris Olympics

    2024-02-28T15:42:00Z

    Fashion magazine Vogue has unveiled plans for a one-off fashion show to celebrate the Paris Olympics that will bring together some of France’s leading luxury brands ahead of the sporting mega-event. The outdoor fashion show will take place in Paris’ Place Vendome on June 23, International Olympic Day, about a ...

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    Accent Group to end franchise model for The Athlete’s Foot down under

    2024-02-28T11:36:00Z

    Inside Retail has reported that Australia-based Accent Group, a digitally integrated retail and distribution company in the performance and lifestyle apparel and footwear market in Australia and New Zealand with more than 800 stores, 34 brands and more than 40 websites, plans to end its franchise model for The Athlete’s ...

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    Bundesliga club RB Leipzig moves from Nike to Puma

    2024-02-27T10:23:00Z

    The German Bundesliga football club RB Leipzig is changing its kit supplier. The existing contract with US sporting goods supplier Nike, which has been in place since 2014, expires in 2024. From the 2024/25 season, German company Puma will kit out all of RB Leipzig’s men’s, women’s and youth teams. ...

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    New global marketing head at Dickies

    2024-02-27T09:25:00Z

    Dickies, a VF Corp. brand, appointed Denise Anderson as VP, Global Marketing. Anderson joins from another VF Corp. brand, Smartwool, where she has spent the last 9 years in varying marketing and creative roles, including the last 4 years leading Global Brand Marketing and Creative Design. She has over 20 ...

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    Decathlon partners with the Madrid Padel Federation

    2024-02-27T07:29:00Z

    Decathlon has announced a partnership with the Madrid Padel Federation (FMP) to promote the sport. The new agreement offers those who have never been registered the possibility to enroll free of charge in the federation, at the national level, for 2024. The two entities will also jointly organize a series ...

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    El Corte Inglés shuttering its sportswear banner

    2024-02-27T07:29:00Z

    El Corte Inglés will be closing down its Sportown banner, which is devoted to sportswear, on Feb. 29, according to CMDsport. The reason is the failure to meet sales targets. The first Sportown stores, covering some 350 sqm apiece, opened in 2009 in major Spanish cities. There are, at present, ...

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    Maui Jim and Red Bull sign 3-year partnership for action sports events

    2024-02-26T16:14:00Z

    Maui Jim has announced that it has signed a three-year partnership with Red Bull for the “co-creation” of a series of action sports events. The Red Bull-branded events, focused on skateboarding and watersports, include Boarding Pass and Terminal Takeover (skate, New Orleans), Magnitude (surf, Hawaii), Cope‘n’waken (wakeboard, Copenhagen, Denmark), King ...

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    Nike launches open-source grantmaking guide

    2024-02-26T15:51:00Z

    Nike celebrated the fourth anniversary of its Black Community Commitment (BCC), a ten-year, $140 million investment to advance racial equity and help eradicate racism, with an event in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 21-22, called “Path to Progress.” During the event, Nike unveiled the “Nike Social & Community Impact Grantmaking Guide,” ...

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    Adidas launches global Yeezy inventory rollout

    2024-02-26T12:23:00Z

    Today, Adidas initiates the next phase of its Yeezy inventory release, unveiling a selection of existing products set to hit the market in stages over the forthcoming weeks on a global scale. In accordance with its earlier announcement in 2024, Adidas is set to unveil its remaining Yeezy inventory, featuring ...

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    New Balance’s European sales grew by 35 percent in 2023

    2024-02-24T15:30:00Z

    Overall, the privately held Boston company New Balance grew annual revenues by 23 percent last year to reach $6.5 billion worldwide, according to Joe Preston, President and CEO, fueled by double-digit growth and market share gains across every global market. Additionally, the group, which presently counts 350 contracted athletes and ...

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    Lululemon and Samsara Eco introduce enzymatically recycled nylon product

    2024-02-23T18:10:00Z

    Source: Lululemon Lululemon’s Swiftly top Lululemon and Samsara Eco, an Australian environmental technology start-up, have debuted what they claim is the world’s first enzymatically recycled nylon 6,6 product. Lululemon has created samples of its Swiftly Tech Long-Sleeve Top using recycled nylon 6,6 made with Samsara Eco’s technology. ...

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    On expands global retail reach with new store in Portland

    2024-02-23T18:04:00Z

    Swiss performance sportswear brand On revealed plans for its latest store opening in Portland, Ore., marking a significant step in its ongoing global retail expansion. Scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 24, the store will debut on NW 23rd Avenue, situated just a mile from the brand’s Americas headquarters. Britt Olsen, GM ...

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    Authentic partners with Aldo for Hunter Bags in North America

    2024-02-23T18:04:00Z

    Authentic Brands Group has announced a partnership with Canadian retailer Aldo Group for bags by Hunter, the British brand known for its iconic Original Wellington boots and acquired by Authentic in mid-2023. The Batra Group and Marc Fisher Footwear were then selected as license partners for Hunter’s footwear in the ...

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    Sports Direct integrates On products in flagship stores

    2024-02-23T06:57:00Z

    After a long time, Sports Direct will finally integrate On in their flagship stores.

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    NBA demonstrates NB-AI in Indianapolis

    2024-02-22T07:37:00Z

    At its invitation-only All-Star Technology Summit on Feb. 16 in Indianapolis, the NBA introduced something called NB-AI. According to MSN.com, it is a prototype chatbot and voice assistant with potential for integration into the NBA app. It would enable users to ask for more information about the ...

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    Puma partners with F1 Academy

    2024-02-22T07:37:00Z

    Puma has unveiled a new partnership with F1 Academy, a female-only racing championship, which will start its second season in early March. Under the terms of the agreement, Puma becomes a key race gear supplier to six F1 Academy drivers. The brand is also making a statement with “one exceptional ...

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    Bowflex may be on the brink

    2024-02-22T07:31:00Z

    Bowflex, the publicly traded fitness company, which rebranded itself from Nautilus, is facing liquidity issues that may lead to a bankruptcy filing or an outright sale of the Seattle-based business. In a public filing yesterday, the company cited both deteriorating macroeconomic concerns and a decline in customer demand, challenging its ...