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Under Armour has opened a head office for Connected Fitness...
Under Armour has opened a head office for Connected Fitness in Austin, Texas, employing more than 100 people specializing in digital health and fitness. The company's Connected Fitness platform forms what is touted as the world's largest digital health and fitness community through several applications, which Under Armour has either ...
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Arnold Sports is taking over the distribution of Skins compression...
Arnold Sports is taking over the distribution of Skins compression garments in Germany and Austria, starting this month. The Swiss-Australian brand was previously handling these territories directly, but apparently with a concentration on the southern part of Germany. Thomas Hieble, European export manager of Skins, will continue to coordinate distributors ...
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XXL ASA, the leading Norwegian sporting goods retailer, is setting...
XXL ASA, the leading Norwegian sporting goods retailer, is setting aside 105,000 own shares for its employees based on individual bonus agreements, starting with six members of its financial department. These share units carry a strike price of 76.08 Norwegian kroner (€8.77-$9.45), and they will be vested after three years. ...
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Asics has been picked as the tenth Gold Partner of...
Asics has been picked as the tenth Gold Partner of the organizing committee for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Asics is to supply the uniforms for the Japanese national Olympic and Paralympic teams, as well as the volunteers for the Games. The 2020 Olympics will take place in the ...
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The Australian government has launched a new program, Play.Sport.Australia, to...
The Australian government has launched a new program, Play.Sport.Australia, to encourage more people to practice sports in a country where some 13,000 people die each year due to physical inactivity and where one-quarter of the children are overweight or obese. Australia's Ministry for Health & Sport wants to conduct a ...
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New Balance continues to invest in sports marketing, this time...
New Balance continues to invest in sports marketing, this time by signing up a popular baseball player, Robinson Cano of the Seattle Mariners, and adding another nation in global football. Costa Rica's national football teams, which were previously sponsored by Lotto, will don New Balance jerseys, starting immediately, including the ...
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L.L. Bean and Craft Sportswear have inked a multi-year partnership...
L.L. Bean and Craft Sportswear have inked a multi-year partnership with the U.S. cross-country ski team and the U.S. Nordic combined ski team. As official supplier, L.L. Bean is to provide insulated outerwear and rainwear, along with casual products and hats. Craft, the Swedish company specialized in base layers and ...
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Himaraya, the big Japanese sporting goods retail chain, reported a...
Himaraya, the big Japanese sporting goods retail chain, reported a 72 percent increase in net income to 225 million yen (€1.8m-$1.9m) for the six months ended Feb. 28. Sales rose by 4 percent to ¥34.6 billion (€274.1m-$290.0m). The gross margin improved by 1.1 percentage points to 37.4 percent, but operating ...
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Hugo Boss is getting a sportier twist. Shareholders of the...
Hugo Boss is getting a sportier twist. Shareholders of the German fashion company are expected to elect a new chairman for its supervisory board, Michel Perraudin, at the company's annual meeting on May 12. Perraudin, 68, is the former member of Adidas' executive board who acted as president of the ...
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The U.S. subsidiary of Icebug, the Swedish traction footwear brand,...
The U.S. subsidiary of Icebug, the Swedish traction footwear brand, is opening an official North American test center at a permanent obstacle course facility, the Shale Hill Adventure Farm in Benson, Vermont. It includes expansive training and race courses along with a newly-opened Icebug retail concept shop, enabling consumers to ...
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Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and...
Sports Direct International (SDI), the leading British sports retailer and wholesaler, is to launch a range of apparel under the Tony Hawk brand online and its own stores around Europe later this year, under a licensing agreement with Cherokee Global Brands, the owner of the label. The range is named ...
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The German Supreme Court, the Bundesgerichtshof, has ruled in favor...
The German Supreme Court, the Bundesgerichtshof, has ruled in favor of Puma in its case against a company selling tee-shirts under the Pudel brand name, according to ispo.com. The name was accompanied by a logo that was meant to represent a jumping poodle but was clearly reminiscent of Puma's leaping ...
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Patagonia has promoted Lisa Williams to the position of chief...
Patagonia has promoted Lisa Williams to the position of chief product officer, with responsibility for all aspects of design, line management, merchandising, inventory and product marketing. She has been with Patagonia since 2001, acting most recently as vice president of global design and merchandising, after taking care of specific segments ...
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Pou Sheng International, one of the two leading Chinese retailers...
Pou Sheng International, one of the two leading Chinese retailers of sports apparel and footwear, saw its sales increase by 23.9 percent to $580.5 million for the first three months of the year. The month of March alone yielded a sales increase of 16.7 percent to $197.2 million. Several Chinese ...
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Fila USA has reached a settlement with Converse, joining H&M,...
Fila USA has reached a settlement with Converse, joining H&M, Ralph Lauren, Tory Burch, the Aldo Group and three other alleged infringers of the trademark rights related to its Chuck Taylor All Star collection of sneakers. The action is a response to a complaint filed by Converse last October with ...
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VF Corp. has struck a strategic partnership with FibeRio Technology...
VF Corp. has struck a strategic partnership with FibeRio Technology Corporation for the joint development of proprietary, high-performance nanofiber materials for the group's apparel, footwear and jeanswear. VF notes that FibeRio's Forcespinning technology has the unique advantage of producing advanced nanofiber textiles in high volumes, using a melt spinning process ...
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Robert Stepanek, an executive at Puma for two decades, is...
Robert Stepanek, an executive at Puma for two decades, is leaving the company after the successful completion of his assignment to integrate its German, Austrian and German subsidiaries. Stepanek was formally appointed two years ago as Project Manager Transformation DACH, as part of the Puma group's reorganization in Europe. Stepanek ...
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Jean-Michel Herrault has left the position of managing director for...
Jean-Michel Herrault has left the position of managing director for Deckers France, the sales subsidiary that he had set up in 2010, after working for 13 years a president of Eider. He will not be replaced, in line with the recent reorganization of European operations by brand rather than by ...
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Puma opened a subsidiary in Indonesia at the start of...
Puma opened a subsidiary in Indonesia at the start of this year, putting an end to a long licensing and distribution agreement with PT Mitra Adiperkasa, a leading fashion and sports retailer in the country. The company already has subsidiaries in Malaysia and Singapore, where it appointed the seasoned Puma ...
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Nixon has promoted Tom Jones to the new position of...
Nixon has promoted Tom Jones to the new position of vice president of global marketing and creative. He was previously the creative director of the brand, formerly controlled by Billabong International. Before joining Nixon in 2014, Jones spent about 20 years in the action sports industry, working in executive creative ...
