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Under Armour staged a special event in Shanghai last Oct....
Under Armour staged a special event in Shanghai last Oct. 18 to inaugurate an Under Armour Experience store in the city's Jing An Kerry Center. The company, which has an office in China, showed its 3D “Under Armour Experience” film in the presence of the company's president, Kevin Plank, and ...
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Asics has presented a new natural running shoe, the Gel-Super...
Asics has presented a new natural running shoe, the Gel-Super J33, that is specifically designed for overpronators. Supported by a slogan, “Mix up your running,” the shoe will be available at selected speciality stores from next spring. The Japanese company has also announced a simplification of its offer, establishing four ...
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Asics will be the first title sponsor of the Great...
Asics will be the first title sponsor of the Great Manchester Marathon next April 6. The race, which will be renamed Asics Great Manchester Marathon, was brought back to the English city in 2012 after an absence of ten years. It is described as the flattest marathon in the U.K.
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Asics will be the sponsor of Australian Rugby and official...
Asics will be the sponsor of Australian Rugby and official partner of the Qantas Wallabies from 2014. The new deal extends the existing partnership of the Japanese sportswear brand with Australian Rugby as the official footwear supplier of the Qantas Wallabies and Australian Rugby teams for 2013. Under the terms ...
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Joakim Noah has stopped his association with Le Coq Sportif,...
Joakim Noah has stopped his association with Le Coq Sportif, the French brand previously worn by his father Yannick, to become an official endorser for Adidas. Since the beginning of his NBA career, Joakim Noah had always laced up in a pair of Le Coq Sportif sneakers. He joins his ...
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The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Warner Bros. Consumer Products...
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Warner Bros. Consumer Products have signed a multi-year agreement to launch a range of products, events and promotional campaigns across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The deal will use the Jr. NBA/Jr. WNBA and Looney Tunes Active brands to boost participation in ...
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Babolat has introduced a new range of four racquets, called...
Babolat has introduced a new range of four racquets, called Pure Strike, that will be available at retail internationally in December. They have been specifically designed for “first strikers” who have an attack-based game and take the ball early. They offer reactivity and precision thanks to a hybrid square and ...
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New Balance has opened its first Italian New Balance Experience...
New Balance has opened its first Italian New Balance Experience Store in Bologna, in the northern region of Emilia Romagna. The new shop, on two floors and with a total surface of 75 square meters, is located in Via de' Toschi, at the very heart of the city center, a ...
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New Balance will be the new sponsor of the Rome...
New Balance will be the new sponsor of the Rome Marathon for the next five years, starting next March 23. Asics had been the sponsor of the race for the last five years, taking the place of Diadora. The Rome Marathon, which began in 1995, atracted more than 14,000 participants ...
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Jack Nicklaus has unveiled his own line of golf balls....
Jack Nicklaus has unveiled his own line of golf balls. They will be manufactured by Bridgestone but stamped with his Golden Bear logo. Nicklaus, nicknamed “The Golden Bear” and the winner of a record 18 professional major championships, is widely regarded as the greatest golf champion of all time. Nicklaus ...
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Compex has become the official supplier of the Paris marathon,...
Compex has become the official supplier of the Paris marathon, also known at the Schneider Electric Marathon, whose 38th edition will take place on Apr. 6. The participants will be able to prepare themselves for the race at Compex' stand at the simultaneous Running Expo. The company will give them ...
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Mark Zoppes, who has been in the sports and outdoor...
Mark Zoppes, who has been in the sports and outdoor industries for more than 28 years, mostly in senior roles, has been named vice president of product at Icebreaker. He was most recently vice president of merchandising and planning at Backcountry.com, where he worked with more than 1,000 brands. He ...
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Bill Sweeney, had of business development at Puma, has been...
Bill Sweeney, had of business development at Puma, has been hired as chief executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA). Starting in mid-November, Sweeney will oversee Britain's preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, as well as the next 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He will ...
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Scantrade, which has been representing Umbro very well in Norway...
Scantrade, which has been representing Umbro very well in Norway for the past 20 years, has become the new distributor of the brand in Sweden as well. Scantrade is based in Norway, and its Swedish office currently represents Nordica, Rollerblade, Tecnica, Therm-ic, Blizzard and Lowa in the neighboring country.
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The market for sports bicycles in China is estimated to have...
The market for sports bicycles in China is estimated to have risen by 30-35 percent in 2012 to reach a level of between 6.9 and 7.2 billion yuan renmimbi (€821-857m - $1,133-1,183m). Similar growth occurred in the first six months of this year, according to leading brands and bike dealers polled ...
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Rip Curl Europe has boosted its sales team. Gilles Darqué...
Rip Curl Europe has boosted its sales team. Gilles Darqué has been named core sales manager for Europe. Vincent Liets, who launched the brand's new technical store at Bidart, has become sales manager for France. Frederi Botton has been appointed field customer service manager.
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Steve Bracewell has replaced Rose Foster as chief executive of...
Steve Bracewell has replaced Rose Foster as chief executive of Animal, the leading action sports brand in the U.K., which recently came under new ownership. Bracewell worked most recently for Gelert, a brand of camping products recently bought by Sports Direct International. He previously worked for Reebok in senior positions ...
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Salewa and Dynafit, two brands of the Italian Oberalp group,...
Salewa and Dynafit, two brands of the Italian Oberalp group, have joined the Fair Wear Foundation (FWF), effective from Sept. 25. FWF is the non-profit organization, controlled by its stakeholders, which screens the social performance of the affiliated members from the textile industry. Around the same time, Oberalp published its ...
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Life Fitness and other components of Brunswick Corp.'s fitness division...
Life Fitness and other components of Brunswick Corp.'s fitness division raised their sales by 9 percent to $165.9 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30. They were driven by international sales, which grew by 15 percent to 51 percent of the turnover, with particular strength in Europe where they ...
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Original Buff, the Spanish company known for its headwear, has...
Original Buff, the Spanish company known for its headwear, has decided to trim down its apparel collection, which represented only 5 percent of its sales, starting with the spring/summer 2014 season. Denying reports that it is stopping it completely, company officials state that it is being scaled down, preserving only ...
