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Adidas has entered a multi-year partnership with Wanderlust, a producer...
Adidas has entered a multi-year partnership with Wanderlust, a producer of lifestyle festival events focusing on yoga, wellness and music. The deal is designed to pair Wanderlust's multi and single-day events with Adidas' latest performance-based products. For 2016, highlights from this partnership include Adidas being a presenting partner of Wanderlust's ...
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Hummel has collaborated with the Afghan Football Federation to create...
Hummel has collaborated with the Afghan Football Federation to create a new kit for the women's national football team that incorporates a hijab while offering optimal comfort. In order to address the footballers' real needs, the Danish sports apparel brand worked with Khalida Popal, the former captain of the team. ...
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Remember Benetton Sportsystem? That was a long time ago, yet...
Remember Benetton Sportsystem? That was a long time ago, yet the Benetton Group is now launching its first collection of active sportswear under the United Colors of Benetton brand name, featuring merino wool yarn and other natural technical materials. The line will be available for sale at Benetton stores throughout ...
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Replacing Peter Ahman, who is leaving the Finnish company, Risto...
Replacing Peter Ahman, who is leaving the Finnish company, Risto Salo has taken the position of chief executive of Oy Sultrade on an interim basis until the appointment of a permanent CEO in due time. Salo has been serving since last summer as a member of the board of directors ...
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Aigle has appointed Marie-Laure Rigal-Raffard as its new global marketing...
Aigle has appointed Marie-Laure Rigal-Raffard as its new global marketing and communications director. She comes from Lacoste, which is controlled by Maus Frères like Aigle. She previously worked for two other fashion houses, Lanvin and Louis Vuitton.
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Bridgestone Americas has teamed up with Michael Johnson, the Olympic...
Bridgestone Americas has teamed up with Michael Johnson, the Olympic track & field legend, to conduct an internal training and sales incentive program for the employees of Bridgestone Retail Operations (BSRO), designed to inspire them in the countdown to the Rio 2016 Olympics games. Bridgestone, the parent company, is a ...
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CEP U.K. & Ireland has announced it has become the...
CEP U.K. & Ireland has announced it has become the Official Compression Partner of Equinox24, the 24-hour endurance running event, which will take place at Belvoir Castle, in the British county of Leicestershire, on Sept. 17-18. The race, now in its fourth year, is a mixed-terrain running competition held on ...
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Timberland EMEA has assigned Andy Hewat to the new position...
Timberland EMEA has assigned Andy Hewat to the new position of sales director in charge of distributors, reporting to Mariano Alonso, vice president of sales for the region. A former executive of Stylo, Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Reebok, Ugg and Scholl, Hewat had been running Timberland's operations in the U.K. ...
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Skechers Performance has announced the signing of Russell Knox and...
Skechers Performance has announced the signing of Russell Knox and Ashlan Ramsey to the growing roster of athletes representing its Skechers Go Golf line of golf shoes. The two professional golfers will join Billy Andrade, Matt Kuchar, Colin Montgomerie and Belén Mozo as part of the Skechers Performance elite team. ...
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Vaude has received yet another award for its initiatives in...
Vaude has received yet another award for its initiatives in the area of sustainability. This time the German outdoor brand has been honored by the German Council for Sustainable Development with a “Werkstatt-N” seal of quality for its Second Use Program. In order to prolong the lifespan of its products, ...
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Camelbak has signed up another top ultra runner, Moritz auf...
Camelbak has signed up another top ultra runner, Moritz auf der Heide, and the Team Garmin Adventure for the 2016 season. Camelbak will also again sponsor Xavier Thévenard and Sissi Cussot, who belong to Team Asics. Thévenard is the reigning champion of the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB). They ...
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Comparable store sales at Belle International's sportswear and apparel stores...
Comparable store sales at Belle International's sportswear and apparel stores in mainland China increased by 6.2 percent for the three months until February – the fourth quarter of the big Chinese retailer's financial year. The company had 7,111 sportswear and apparel stores at the end of the quarter, all of ...
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Caroline Lanigan has been appointed brand manager of Domyos, the...
Caroline Lanigan has been appointed brand manager of Domyos, the private fitness brand of Decathlon, according to Fitness News Europe. She takes the place of Philippe Bernadat, who has been assigned to look into the group's possible entry into the Iranian market. Reportedly, Domyos generates annual sales of around €1.5 ...
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Brixton has appointed Ruud Vermey as general manager of Brixton...
Brixton has appointed Ruud Vermey as general manager of Brixton Europe. Vermey has more than 20 years of experience in the European market across sales, product and marketing, including senior roles with Vans Europe and Sole Technology, where he served as European product director. He will be based in the ...
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Jim Howard has been appointed as U.S. general manager...
Jim Howard has been appointed as U.S. general manager for Inov-8, the British brand of trail running footwear. He is to supervise U.S. sales, marketing and operations from the brand's regional head office near Boston. Howard started off in the sports business as the manager of The Runners Den, a ...
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Bryson White has been appointed as brand manager for Suunto...
Bryson White has been appointed as brand manager for Suunto in the Americas, to take care of the communication and marketing strategy for the sports instruments brand, which is owned by the Amer Sports group. While working with the product and executive teams in Finland, White's assignment is to raise ...
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Nathan Dopp has been appointed to lead Fjällräven and Hanwag...
Nathan Dopp has been appointed to lead Fjällräven and Hanwag in North America, after the departure of John Walbrecht last month to become president of Mountain Hardwear at the Columbia Sportswear group. Dopp already contributed to the rapid expansion of the Swedish outdoor brand in the U.S. market, as he ...
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Ardian, an independent French private investment firm, has divested its...
Ardian, an independent French private investment firm, has divested its stake in Netquattro, the company behind Fitness Boutique. This network of 72 stores specializes in fitness equipment and nutrition, in France and several other countries, from Spain to Italy, Belgium, Switzerland and Portugal. The stake was divested early last month ...
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The Asia Pacific Snow Conference at Ispo Beijing had an...
The Asia Pacific Snow Conference at Ispo Beijing had an extra attraction this year with the publication of a report about the Chinese ski industry. As reported by Ispo.com, the report was authored by Bin Wu, chief strategy officer of the ski resort division at Vanke, who previously worked as ...
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Nike has an exclusive sponsorship deal with the Kenyan athletics...
Nike has an exclusive sponsorship deal with the Kenyan athletics federation (Athletics Kenya) but according to a recent report in The New York Times, the company is now at the center of a corruption investigation in the country with regard to that contract. In 2011, the American giant agreed to ...
