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Rapala's new Eco Wear Reflection jacket has won a Red...
Rapala's new Eco Wear Reflection jacket has won a Red Dot design award. First introduced in the market in 2011, the Finnish fishing equipment company's Eco Wear line of wading apparel uses a highly ecological process from DuPont. The line already got the Best New Product Award in the fishing apparel category ...
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Reebok has ended its partnership with the Miami rapper Rick...
Reebok has ended its partnership with the Miami rapper Rick Ross because of a controversial track in which he appeared to boast about drugging and raping a woman. Ross, a Grammy-nominated rapper who was a spokesman for the brand's Classics line of sneakers, denied that the lyric condoned rape and ...
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Erhard Sport, the German producer of sports equipment for gyms...
Erhard Sport, the German producer of sports equipment for gyms and other sports facilities, has filed for bankruptcy. The receiver's office announced that the company remains operational with its 220 employees, however. The large number of its subsidiaries across Europe plus distribution companies in the U.S., South Africa and Qatar ...
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Speedo has signed up a French swim star, Florent Manaudou,...
Speedo has signed up a French swim star, Florent Manaudou, to become its brand ambassador in a new four-year deal. The 22-year-old swimmer won the 50-meter freestyle at the 2012 London Olympics. He is the younger brother of Laure Manaudou, a former Olympic gold medalist sponsored by Arena. Florent is ...
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Louisa Smith, Ispo's partner for the Textrends Forum which premiered...
Louisa Smith, Ispo's partner for the Textrends Forum which premiered at this year's Ispo Munich, has put together the Trendbook which is complementary to Ispo's on-show exhibition of the latest trends in the world of fibers and fabrics. The book describes a wide range of trends for the autumn/winter 2014-15 ...
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Nike Golf has taken over from Volvo as title sponsor...
Nike Golf has taken over from Volvo as title sponsor of the prestigious amateur Matchplay Championship in the U.K. After 18 years, the 2012 edition of the event saw the participation of more than 2,100 pairs and 1,300 golfers from 1,500 clubs. Running from June until next January, when the ...
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Head Sport has granted a license for socks and underwear...
Head Sport has granted a license for socks and underwear to Dobotex, the Dutch specialty company for socks and other garments. The new partnership comes into effect from the beginning of next year and is set to cover all of Europe. Dobotex will develop a line of performance underwear and ...
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Wintersteiger, the leading manufacturer of ski maintenance and storing solutions...
Wintersteiger, the leading manufacturer of ski maintenance and storing solutions as well as of other types of machinery, has posted record sales for the third year in a row. Total sales soared from €101.8 million in 2011 to €126.2 million in 2012. The significant sales increase came substantially from the ...
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The members of the Ver.Di trade union of Leipzig, where...
The members of the Ver.Di trade union of Leipzig, where Amazon Germany's most important distribution center is located, have voted with an overwhelming majority in favor of a strike, claiming that the wages paid by the retailer are too low. The issue is that Amazon Germany is not bound to ...
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More than seven million viewers have watched the presentation on...
More than seven million viewers have watched the presentation on YouTube of a new customized “hovercraft golfcart” commissioned for Bubba Watson by one of its new sponsors, Oakley. Developed by Neoteric, a small company in Indiana, the futuristic vehicle resembles a barefoot running shoe. It can be seen flying over ...
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Effective Sept. 1, Pascal Schweizer will become country manager...
Effective Sept. 1, Pascal Schweizer will become country manager in charge of Odlo's operations in the German market, which is the largest one for the Swiss company. The 41-year-old worked for Nike Germany in various positions for eight and a half years before he switched to Kettler, the fitness company, ...
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The Mammut Sports Group raised its sales by 10.3 percent...
The Mammut Sports Group raised its sales by 10.3 percent to 232.5 million Swiss francs (€190.8m-$244.9m) in 2012, with an increase of 8.4 percent in local currencies and excluding the effect of acquisitions, according to its parent company, Conzzeta Group. The highest growth rates were recorded in the Asian region ...
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Intersport Germany started up its online shop on March 18,...
Intersport Germany started up its online shop on March 18, adding an additional retail channel for its affiliated retailers. The store at http://www.intersport.de went formally live with Kim Roether and Klaus Jost, the group's joint managing directors, pushing the button and ordering outdoor jackets for themselves. The group has been working ...
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Sport 2000 has officially started its involvement in the sponsoring...
Sport 2000 has officially started its involvement in the sponsoring of international ski sports by presenting its first ski designed for ski jumping. The initiative aims to raise brand awareness for the international retail network's banner. Sport 2000's sponsoring campaign will begin with the start of the next 2013-14 winter ...
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Billabong International halted trading in its shares on March 21...
Billabong International halted trading in its shares on March 21 after a 14.2 percent drop in the share price to 69.5 Australian cents. The two bidders, VF Corp. and Altamont Capital Partners, have both made an indicative offer to buy all the shares at a price of A$1.10, making it ...
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The Sport Achat trade show attracted 3,682 visitors this year,...
The Sport Achat trade show attracted 3,682 visitors this year, 3 percent more than one year ago. The event was again held in the French city of Lyon on March 18-20. Intersport participated for the first time in the fair, with a stand and two offices. Sources from the Intersport, ...
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Mizuno has opened the first of a series of 50...
Mizuno has opened the first of a series of 50 running specialty stores that it wants to have in Mainland China by the end of 2015. They are expected to contribute annual revenues of 1.5 billion yen (€188.1m-$241.3m). Located in Shanghai, the first such store features running stations for training ...
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UBM Asia has acquired a controlling stake of 60 percent...
UBM Asia has acquired a controlling stake of 60 percent in Novomania, a Chinese young fashion show that resembles in many ways Bread & Butter in Berlin. Based in Hong Kong, UBM Asia is the Asian subsidiary of United Business Media (UBM) of the U.K. and has 12 agencies in ...
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Franz-Leo Drucks, a sporting goods retailer from Aachen who is...
Franz-Leo Drucks, a sporting goods retailer from Aachen who is now 65 years old, is leaving the helm of the supervisory board of Intersport Germany. He has served on the controlling body of the cooperative for no less than 33 years and was elected chairman in 2005. He will hand over his ...
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Aqua Lung America of Vista, California is voluntarily recalling about...
Aqua Lung America of Vista, California is voluntarily recalling about 110,000 buoyancy compensators, used by scuba divers, due to a flaw that could prevent a diver from surfacing. The recall involves buoyancy compensators with SureLock II rubber handles attached to weight pockets, whose rubber handles can detach as divers are ...
