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    England Netball has signed a partnership with BLK, the Australian...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    England Netball has signed a partnership with BLK, the Australian team sports apparel company, to outfit all of its representative teams for the next four years. BLK is to provide a range of leisure and on-court apparel ahead of next year's home test series against the Australian world champions in ...

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    Intersport Austria has launched a new promotion to get young...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Intersport Austria has launched a new promotion to get young customers to register for a loyalty card. Depending on their age, customers who are 16 to 18 years old can get a discount of 16, 17 or 18 percent on the purchase of their favorite product in affiliated stores once ...

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    Lacoste has obtained the backing of the General Court of...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Lacoste has obtained the backing of the General Court of the European Union (EU) in a trademark dispute against Mocek and Wenta. The judges of EU's second highest court ruled that the caiman logo that the Polish competitor sought to register in the EU was similar enough to Lacoste's iconic ...

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    Callaway Golf is offering to redeem the balance of its...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Callaway Golf is offering to redeem the balance of its outstanding 3.75 percent convertible senior notes due in 2019, plus accrued interest, leaving the company without any long-term debt. The principal on the notes carries a total value of $27,517,000, plus interest. Until Nov. 16, the note holders will be ...

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    The next European Outdoor Summit will be held in Barcelona...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    The next European Outdoor Summit will be held in Barcelona on Sept. 26-28, 2016. This year's EOS, which was held in Sheffield, England, last week, welcomed a record of 318 delegates. They heard speeches by Andy Rubin, chairman of Pentland Brands, and other managers and experts including Ulrike Luckmann, author ...

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    Wilson Sporting Goods is moving into “smart basketball” with the...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Wilson Sporting Goods is moving into “smart basketball” with the Wilson X Connected basketball and app, using proprietary technology to track made and missed shots in real time. The ball, which is only being launched in North America for the time being, was developed in a partnership between Wilson and Sport IQ, ...

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    Bauer Hockey has opened an Innovation Center in Blainville, Quebec....

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Bauer Hockey has opened an Innovation Center in Blainville, Quebec. The facility, which has a surface of more than 9,200 square meters, recently hosted the annual BauerWorld event, which welcomed around 350 of the company's top global retail partners. The new site features more than 150 testing and R&D machines, ...

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    Julbo has become the only sports brand in Europe with...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Julbo has become the only sports brand in Europe with an in-house laboratory to make corrective lenses for its sports glasses. Like other brands of sports eyewear, it was previously outsourcing the process to an outside laboratory. Following an investment completed in April, Julbo's lab has a capacity to make ...

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    The U.S. government is considering placing Taobao, the big e-commerce...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    The U.S. government is considering placing Taobao, the big e-commerce platform operated by China's Alibaba Group, on its list of “Notorious Markets” for its continued offering of products that are in conflict with intellectual property rights. This comes after the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) issued a complaint against ...

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    IC Group's board of director has decided to initiate a...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    IC Group's board of director has decided to initiate a new program that will grant up to 61,113 performance shares to the members of its global management team and other selected executives, for a total of 23 participants. They will have an opportunity to get one-quarter of the shares depending ...

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    Bob Hurley is stepping down as chief executive of the...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Bob Hurley is stepping down as chief executive of the surfwear brand that he founded, and which was acquired by the Nike group in 2002. Hurley was appointed interim chief executive in 2012, after the departure of Michael Egeck. He supervised product development and marketing for Hurley, which employs about ...

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    Fusalp, the iconic French brand of skiwear and lifestyle clothing...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Fusalp, the iconic French brand of skiwear and lifestyle clothing taken over by members of the Lacoste family, has opened a 110-square-meter boutique on rue des Blanc-Manteaux, in the heart of the Marais district of Paris. Three franchised stores are due to open in the French ski resorts of Megève, ...

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    An experienced executive, Liz Braund, has joined Royal Robbins in...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    An experienced executive, Liz Braund, has joined Royal Robbins in the position of vice president of merchandising and design. She will also be in charge of product development and innovation. Braund has spent 20 years in performance apparel, working for important brands such as Nike, The North Face and Oakley. ...

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    Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and wholesaler, again rebuffed allegations about the workplace practices at its huge warehouse in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. They were scrutinized in a documentary broadcast by the BBC, which indicated that ambulances had been called to the facility more than 80 times in ...

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    Wiggle has completed the relocation of its distribution center from...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Wiggle has completed the relocation of its distribution center from Portsmouth to Wolverhampton. The new 30,000-square-meter distribution site is three times the size of the previous facility and is strategically situated three kilometers from the M6 and nine kilometers from the M5, two important motorways in the U.K. It took ...

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    Reiner Thalacker is no longer the chief executive of Wintersteiger....

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Reiner Thalacker is no longer the chief executive of Wintersteiger. He left at the end of September for personal reasons, company officials say, after three years with the Austrian company, a global leader in ski maintainance equipment and other businesses. Thalacker was also responsible for sales, marketing and customer service. ...

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    Cimalp, which has developed a patented quick-dry polypropylene fabric coupled...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Cimalp, which has developed a patented quick-dry polypropylene fabric coupled with Coolmax for its T-shirts and jackets, was one of the two French companies that got the French Outdoor Award at Camp de Base, the collective French exhibition at the OutDoor trade show in Friedrichshafen in July. Cimalp claims that ...

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    Go Sport will partner with Paris' civil protection service on...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Go Sport will partner with Paris' civil protection service on Oct. 31 to collect clothing for the homeless for the cold season. On that Saturday, the French sporting goods retailer's customers will have an opportunity to buy clothes and hand them out to the volunteers of the civil protection outside ...

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    The World Squash Federation (WFS) is seeking a clarification on...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    The World Squash Federation (WFS) is seeking a clarification on the recent rejection of the sport for the 2020 Olympics in Japan. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had recently offered the 2020 Games' hosts the opportunity to increase the number of sports previously agreed by the Buenos Aires session in ...

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    Jarden Corp. has launched a secondary offering, due to close...

    2015-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Jarden Corp. has launched a secondary offering, due to close on Oct. 21, for 10 million shares priced at $49.00 each, plus an overallotment of 1.5 million shares. The proceeds will be used to fund a portion of its planned acquisition of Jostens, a company  that supplies high-school memorabilia such ...