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XXL ASA, which went public last October, announced on March...
XXL ASA, which went public last October, announced on March 4 a program to repurchase up to 130,000 of its own shares. As part of this program, it has bought a total of 54,000 own shares as of today, March 10, representing 0.04 percent of the Norwegian sporting goods retailer's ...
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Vibram has announced a new partnership with “Girls on the...
Vibram has announced a new partnership with “Girls on the Run,” a physical-activity based program aimed at inspiring and empowering pre-adolescent girls in North America. For every pair of Vibram-soled shoes sold at participating retailers, the brand will donate 5 percent of the price to “Girls on the Run.” The ...
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Converse has announced the launch of “Made by you,” a...
Converse has announced the launch of “Made by you,” a new global campaign celebrating its Chuck Taylor All Star sneaker and the people who have turned it into their artistic canvas. The campaign features more than 200 portraits of worn and customized Chucks, from everyday Chuck Taylor wearers as well ...
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Maui Jim has announced a new global three-year partnership with...
Maui Jim has announced a new global three-year partnership with the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals). As part of the deal, the Hawaiian brand of polarized sunglasses becomes the Official Eyewear of the ATP World Tour as well as the supply eyewear to the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour finals ...
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A list of the factories that make apparel for the...
A list of the factories that make apparel for the Adidas Group shows that it has added one in Myanmar for the first time. Combined with low labor costs, the recent lifting of international sanctions on the country, formerly called Burma, evidently played a role. Some 2,000 workers were reported ...
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Nike said it plans to appoint Michael Spillane as vice...
Nike said it plans to appoint Michael Spillane as vice president and general manager of global footwear, effective June 1. He will report to Jeanne Jackson, Nike's president of global product and merchandising. Spillane is currently vice president and general manager of Greater China. In his new role, he will ...
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Under Armour has appointed Kip J. Fulks, one of the...
Under Armour has appointed Kip J. Fulks, one of the original founders of the company, as president of footwear and innovation. Fulks previously served as Under Armour's chief operating officer and president of product. In his new role, he will lead the global footwear product category and will also continue ...
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Nina Graf-Vlachy has been appointed as head of global strategy...
Nina Graf-Vlachy has been appointed as head of global strategy at Puma earlier this month. The 32 year-old Slovenian joined the company's global strategy team in 2013 after assignments as a project manager at the Boston Consulting Group. She takes over from Arne Freundt, who held that function for three and a ...
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Sport Partner reports that Brunotti Europe has appointed Frank Uyt...
Sport Partner reports that Brunotti Europe has appointed Frank Uyt den Boogaard, who spent nine years dealing with marketing at Just Brands, to join the Dutch board sports company as creative marketing director from the beginning of March
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Under Armour plans to open stores in major European cities...
Under Armour plans to open stores in major European cities such as London, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Madrid and Barcelona before the end of 2017, according to Modaes.es. The Spanish website reports that Under Armour's sales grew last year by 63 percent to €10 million in Spain, where the brand ...
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Memphis Depay has joined Under Armour's elite athlete roster. The...
Memphis Depay has joined Under Armour's elite athlete roster. The footballer, who has signed a multiyear partnership with immediate effect, plays for PSV Eindhoven and is currently the leading goal scorer in the Eredivisie, the highest echelon of professional football in the Netherlands. Depay is considered one of the most ...
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Mission Athletecare, the six-year-old company behind the EnduraCool line of...
Mission Athletecare, the six-year-old company behind the EnduraCool line of instant cooling towels, skull caps, sleeves and hats, has raised $35 million in new venture capital. It has also added Hap Klopp, the founder and former chief executive of The North Face, to its board of directors. The new round ...
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Boardsport Source reports that the Austrian snowboard factory of Global...
Boardsport Source reports that the Austrian snowboard factory of Global Sports Technologies (GST) will cease production at the end of July. The plant's 85 staff were apparently informed on 25 February that the activity in Antiesenhofen had become untenable because production costs are relatively high in Austria while selling prices ...
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Mizuno has struck a five-year partnership with Collezione Automobili Lamborghini,...
Mizuno has struck a five-year partnership with Collezione Automobili Lamborghini, the well-known Italian producer of sports cars, for a line of sports apparel and footwear featuring the carmaker's shield that will be on the market from next autumn. The deal was disclosed during the Geneva Motor Show that began on ...
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K-Way, one of the brands of Basicnet, has worked with...
K-Way, one of the brands of Basicnet, has worked with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to develop a special model of its Panda car that features a foldable Visibag safety device, consisting of a high-visibility sleeveless jacket stored inside a dedicated pouch in the seats. Basicnet's president and founder, Marco Boglione, has ...
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Bodybuilding.com will open next month a new fulfillment center in...
Bodybuilding.com will open next month a new fulfillment center in Dunstable, England, serving customers in the U.K. and other parts of the European Union. U.K. customers will get next-day delivery. The U.S.-based online retailer of fitness equipment has been servicing European customers from a third-party warehouse in the Netherlands, selling ...
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Skilynx, the investment company that took over the Vuarnet brand...
Skilynx, the investment company that took over the Vuarnet brand of sunglasses a few years ago, has reached an agreement to take over the rights to the Vuarnet brand for all kinds of products in an asset deal with Jean Vuarnet, the famous French ski champion, and his son ...
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The founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, and Nike's brand president,...
The founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, and Nike's brand president, Trevor Edwards, have been inducted into the 2015 Marketing Hall of Fame, a scheme run by the New York chapter of the American Marketing Association to celebrate brilliance in marketing across all fields and organizations, including corporations, consulting firms, agencies ...
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Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore...
Deckers Brands has launched a multi-brand e-commerce platform in Singapore and Australia, to be followed by openings in Hong Kong later this month, and Malaysia and South Korea before the end of June. The company plans to launch it in New Zealand and Taiwan in 2016 and other Asia-Pacific countries ...
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Mark McMorris from Canada and Silje Norendal from Norway, gold...
Mark McMorris from Canada and Silje Norendal from Norway, gold medal winners at the 2015 Winter X-Games, are the first snowboarders to be sponsored by Garmin. They will be equipped with the brand's VIRB action camera, the Fénix 3 multisport watch and the Vivofit activity tracker. Garmin is also acting ...
