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Confirming reports in the Spanish press, New Balance says it...
Confirming reports in the Spanish press, New Balance says it has opened a Spanish subsidiary, New Balance Retail Spain, but points out that its sole purpose is to manage outlet stores in the country. It already has one in the La Roca Village shopping center of Barcelona. Alfico will continue ...
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X-Bionic, the Swiss brand of functional base layers and socks,...
X-Bionic, the Swiss brand of functional base layers and socks, plans to inaugurate next September the so-called X-Bionic Sphere, a sports complex of one million square meters with training facilities for 27 Olympic sports. It is co-founding the €500 million project, which will also be placed at the disposal of ...
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Thomas Weber, a former manager of Reebok who had been...
Thomas Weber, a former manager of Reebok who had been appointed international sales director for Kettler's sports division in 2009, has left the German fitness equipment company, which is still insolvent. His responsibilities have been taken over by Ulrich Kürschner, the former German sales director. Kürschner has been promoted to ...
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New Era, the brand best known for being the official...
New Era, the brand best known for being the official on-field cap of Major League Baseball (MLB), has signed up Nina Agdal as an MLB ambassador for its 2016 women's collection. The supermodel is New Era's first female brand ambassador. She joins the brand's MLB roster which features numerous baseball ...
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Bernd Kullmann, former chief executive at Deuter, made an impassioned...
Bernd Kullmann, former chief executive at Deuter, made an impassioned plea for more women to take the lead at outdoor companies, as he handed this year's Ispo Cup to Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, a famous Austrian mountaineer. She is the first woman to have climbed all 14 peaks of more than 8,000 ...
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Bike Europe reports that imports of bicycles into the European...
Bike Europe reports that imports of bicycles into the European Union jumped by 4.0 percent in the first eight months of the year. After five years of decline, during which imports dropped by more than 20 percent, the numbers picked up again in 2014, with a rise of 1.6 percent ...
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Iconix Brand Group, the owner of Umbro and several other...
Iconix Brand Group, the owner of Umbro and several other sports brands, has adopted a short-term shareholder rights plan after a sharp decline in its share price in recent months. Sports Direct International (SDI), the British retailer, acquired indirect economic interests amounting to 14.4 percent in Iconix in the last ...
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Brooks Running has launched a new global brand campaign entitled...
Brooks Running has launched a new global brand campaign entitled “Live the way you run. Run happy.” The campaign is meant to capture the positive impact of running on various aspects of the runner's life. The U.S. company said that the campaign was inspired by its belief that a run ...
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Deckers Brands saw its share price go down by more...
Deckers Brands saw its share price go down by more than 8 percent after releasing lower than expected figures for its third quarter, ended Dec. 31. Sales rose by only 1.4 percent during the quarter to $795.9 million, with increases of 1.0 percent at Ugg and 3.2 percent for Teva, ...
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Diadora is presenting a new relay race called Bright Delivery...
Diadora is presenting a new relay race called Bright Delivery to launch the new SS2016 N900, an updated version of a historical shoe. Bright Deliver is a 1,500-km race across southern Europe and its various landscapes which will be followed by a special support team and a troupe providing live ...
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Saucony, part of Wolverine Worldwide, has signed up Tim Broe...
Saucony, part of Wolverine Worldwide, has signed up Tim Broe as program director of the newly-created Saucony Elite Athlete Development Team. Broe, a retired American long-distance runner, is a ten-time USA National Champion and the recipient of the 2015 Boston Globe Cross Country Coach of the Year. Saucony's partnership with ...
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Houdini launched three new styles for its soft shell collection...
Houdini launched three new styles for its soft shell collection at Ispo Munich. All membranes of its shell jackets are made without fluorocarbons and they are all recyclable and made from recycled fibers. The garments are made in Europe and textiles are from Teijin, a Japanese company. The Swedish company ...
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Columbia Sportswear has launched a new line of golf performance...
Columbia Sportswear has launched a new line of golf performance sportswear and outerwear. In addition, the company is sponsoring several professional golf players who will wear and promote the new Columbia Golf range in this year's PGA Tour events. Endorsers will include Robert Garrigus, Ryan Palmer and Jason Kokrak. The ...
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A committee of the European Outdoor Group (EOG) is still...
A committee of the European Outdoor Group (EOG) is still looking at proposals by Messe München to hold its summer OutDoor show in Munich rather than Friedrichshafen. Meanwhile, the EOG and Messe Friedrichshafen have decided to move forward the dates of the show to June 18-21 in 2017, making it ...
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Italian sporting goods companies are going through a rough patch...
Italian sporting goods companies are going through a rough patch due to unseasonable weather conditions. The lack of snow has made their total turnover drop by 20 percent in Italy and Austria, according to estimates by Assosport, the national association of sporting goods manufacturers, as reported by Corriere del Veneto, ...
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Neue Medien Ulm Holding, a publishing company controlled by the...
Neue Medien Ulm Holding, a publishing company controlled by the Ebner family, has signed a deal for the acquisition of SAZ, the leading German sports industry magazine founded by Horst Frankl 41 years ago. The deal is conditional on approval by German anti-trust authorities. Frankl, who is now 75 years ...
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The Rossignol Group has made the strategic decision to eliminate...
The Rossignol Group has made the strategic decision to eliminate the Rossignol brand name from its ski bindings. Starting with the autumn/winter 2016/17 season, all its alpine ski bindings will bear the Look brand name. This will allow the company to concentrate product development, sales and marketing resources on a ...
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Siegfried Passreiter, the long-time managing director of Fischer + Löffler...
Siegfried Passreiter, the long-time managing director of Fischer + Löffler Deutschland, has announced his retirement, effective at the end of 2016. The 60-year-old has served at the company since 1998. Passreiter is also member of the board of the German manufacturers' federation, BSI, where he steers the working committee in ...
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YKK, the world's largest manufacturer of zippers, has launched two...
YKK, the world's largest manufacturer of zippers, has launched two new zippers, intended for jackets, called Fix a Shape and Integra, for autumn/winter 2016/17. Non-exclusive brand partners for YKK's new zippers are Adidas and Eider. Integra, the lightweight, water-repellent and packable zipper, can be used for running and hiking apparel, ...
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The Berlin Fashion Week, which took place on Jan. 19-21,...
The Berlin Fashion Week, which took place on Jan. 19-21, was again a successful platform for retailers and manufacturers to meet and discover the new autumn/winter 2016/17 collections. Bright, the leading European trade show for streetwear, sneakers and skateboarding, took place for the first time under the ownership of the ...
