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Newton Running will be the sponsor for the 18th annual...
Newton Running will be the sponsor for the 18th annual Aspen Medical Products San Diego Triathlon Challenge being held on Oct. 23. The event comprises a one-mile swim, a 44-mile bike race and a 10-mile run for the 125 physically challenged competitors and 550 able-bodied athletes and celebrities. Proceeds of ...
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K2 Sports and the Rolling Stones have decided to partner...
K2 Sports and the Rolling Stones have decided to partner to develop a limited series of skis bearing the name of the famous musical band, as both are celebrating 50 years of existence. The graphics include a list of songs played during a concert, parts of the text of some ...
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Scott Creelman, an American executive who spent 35 years with...
Scott Creelman, an American executive who spent 35 years with Spalding Sports, died on Sept. 21 at the age of 68, after fighting against cancer for five years. He gradually worked his way up to president and chief executive of Spalding after holding many positions with the company including that ...
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A total of 36 companies affiliated with Afydad, the Spanish...
A total of 36 companies affiliated with Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, will participate in the Spanish Outdoor Village at next year's Ispo Munich show. In collaboration with Icex, the Spanish export promotion agency, Afydad is also going to organize trade missions next year to Dubai, Qatar and ...
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Research conducted by a Swiss laboratory on 40 runners showed...
Research conducted by a Swiss laboratory on 40 runners showed that their heart frequency went down by two beats per minute on average if they were running with On shoes on a treadmill, rather than with their conventional shoes. Twelve runners experienced a reduction of ten beats. Only two had ...
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Sales of bicycles in France rose by 5.5 percent in...
Sales of bicycles in France rose by 5.5 percent in the first six months of this year, after several years of steady decline, thanks mainly to very mild weather. In 2010, French bike deliveries fell by 4.9 percent to 664,500 units, excluding toy and children's bikes.
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Adidas has unveiled an “intelligent” football boot, the Adizero F50....
Adidas has unveiled an “intelligent” football boot, the Adizero F50. Described as the fastest boot ever developed by the brand and as the ultimate digital training tool, it houses a Micoach Speed_Cell in the outsole that captures movements and measures key performance data such as actual, average and maximum speed, ...
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Mike Egeck, 52, has become the chief executive of Hurley...
Mike Egeck, 52, has become the chief executive of Hurley International, the action sports brand of the Nike group. The brand's founder, Bob Hurley, remains chairman. Egeck had recently left VF Corporation to act as president of True Religion, an American brand of jeans. At VF, he ran Seven for ...
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JJB Sports wants to get people excited about sports with...
JJB Sports wants to get people excited about sports with its new TV advertising campaign. The ads, developed by TBWA\Manchester, show off a variety of products that JJB carries, and are hoped to help the struggling retailer. The three ads will be shown through the first week of October.
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Speedo has its sights on an Australian blogger, accusing him...
Speedo has its sights on an Australian blogger, accusing him of breach of copyright and saying his website is damaging the brand. Dave Evans, 24, argues that Speedo has become a generic term. Speedo is asking the Federal Court in Canberra to restrict the use of domain names including the ...
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Our story on the acromonious battles between two parts of...
Our story on the acromonious battles between two parts of the Hon family and their competing brands unfortunately contained a partly erroneous statement. Zyro, a British distributor, has indeed quit selling Dahon, but the brand has not been replaced with Tern, which has yet to appoint a distributor in the ...
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Erica Kerner, global Olympic Games director at the Adidas Group,...
Erica Kerner, global Olympic Games director at the Adidas Group, left the company in September, only a few months before the start of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Kerner was supervising the comprehensive sponsorship and licensing program put together by Adidas for these Olympics, as she had already done ...
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The members of Intersport España, who have already decided to...
The members of Intersport España, who have already decided to change the buying group from a cooperative into a limited partnership, have now approved a plan to set up a separate company, Intersport CCS, to act as their buying and service company. Don Enrique Roura Bonet of Body Molina is ...
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Emilio Morabito is the new country manager of Amer Sports...
Emilio Morabito is the new country manager of Amer Sports Italia, taking the place of Marco Furlanis who left several months ago. He worked with fast-moving consumer goods companies like Reckitt Benckiser, Henkel and Unilever and then acted as sales director at Sara Lee for more than 17 years.
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Tharanco Lifestyles, the American company that took over the Greg...
Tharanco Lifestyles, the American company that took over the Greg Norman Collection of golf apparel at the beginning of 2009, has agreed to also acquire Dunning Golf, a Canadian company specializing in high-performance golf clothing. Ralph Dunning, who founded it in 2001, will continue to hold a share in the ...
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A Dutch sports retailer, Telstar Sport & Fashion, has taken...
A Dutch sports retailer, Telstar Sport & Fashion, has taken over the former Hink Sport megastore in Alkmaar, which is about 5,000 square meters, from its receivers. Telstar already has five such megastores and has advanced plans to open two more in Apeldoorn and Groningen. Hink Sport, a prominent member ...
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Nike's Sustainable Business & Innovation Lab is setting up a...
Nike's Sustainable Business & Innovation Lab is setting up a venture capital operation that will look for and fund alternative energies and better business practices. Bloomberg has reported that SBI will invest money in startup businesses that develop sustainable practices or that help promote more healthful living. The SBI was ...
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Etnies has opened a flagship store in Amsterdam, created in...
Etnies has opened a flagship store in Amsterdam, created in cooperation with its key retailer, Eberhardt. The store is in the sought-after Damrak area, and carries the largest collection of Etnies footwear and apparel in Europe. It's the Etnies second store to open in Europe after a shop in London ...
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Andy Rubin, chief executive of Pentland Brands, was one of...
Andy Rubin, chief executive of Pentland Brands, was one of 25 top executives from the U.K. who accompanied British Prime Minister David Cameron on a trade mission to Russia. One of Pentland's brands, Berghaus, is entering the country through a distributor (more in our Outdoor Industry Compass).
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Nike Golf has named Angus Moir to be its general...
Nike Golf has named Angus Moir to be its general manager for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA). As of Dec. 1, Moir will take up the position from Stan Grissinger, who has been promoted to director of international business development for the golf brand. Moir, 48, has ...
