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Adidas unveiled the Jo’Bulani, the ball for the final of...
Adidas unveiled the Jo’Bulani, the ball for the final of this year’s football World Cup in South Africa, at its international head office in Herzogenaurach last Tuesday. The ball is an adjusted, white and gold version of the Jabulani, the ball that will be used throughout the tournament starting on ...
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Speedo has launched a major new advertising campaign in France...
Speedo has launched a major new advertising campaign in France and Germany, with Italy following up in September and other European countries later on. Shot at the famous Pinewood Studios in the U.K., which have a unique underwater filming facility, the campaign is meant to address health and fitness consumers ...
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After three years of decline, the number of people who...
After three years of decline, the number of people who play golf on a full-length golf course was on the rise again in the U.K. last year, returning to an older 4-million mark, according to an IFM Sports Marketing Surveys study. There was an increase of 8 percent in the ...
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France’s Twinner buying group is breaking up a cooperation agreement...
France’s Twinner buying group is breaking up a cooperation agreement with Intersport France and teaming up with Pros du Sport, a smaller and profitable French group that works with about 100 different suppliers, offering numerous services to its retail members. Both groups are going to work through Garant to guarantee ...
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Serotta Sports, a new American company founded by Ben Serotta,...
Serotta Sports, a new American company founded by Ben Serotta, has its first president in Stan Mavis, the co-founder of Pearl Izumi and later president of Sugoi Performance Apparel. The company will sell Serotta’s hand-built bicycles and be the exclusive distributor of Catlike helmets and Etxeondo apparel in North ...
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Tattoo Golf, an American brand of offbeat golf apparel, was...
Tattoo Golf, an American brand of offbeat golf apparel, was introduced in the European market in the last weeks by John Lewis, a long-time executive in the U.K. golf business. Lewis obtained a distribution deal for Tattoo Golf from last September in all of the EU, with the exception of ...
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The newest Plimsoll Industry Analysis of golf courses and clubs...
The newest Plimsoll Industry Analysis of golf courses and clubs in the U.K. has found that 17.6 percent of the companies on its list, or 174 out of 989, are showing annual growth of at least 10 percent as well as better profitability. However, 117 companies are reporting the same ...
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The Los Angeles Lakers, Minnesota Timberwolves and New York Knicks...
The Los Angeles Lakers, Minnesota Timberwolves and New York Knicks of the NBA will be playing pre-season games in Europe on Oct. 3-7 this year, the fifth year in a row for NBA Europe Live, presented by EA Sports. Also on the roster are Regal FC Barcelona and AJ Milano ...
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Cycleurope has announced the shutdown next summer of its bike...
Cycleurope has announced the shutdown next summer of its bike factory at Kildemoes, in Denmark. The plant assembles about 100,000 bicycles per year. The production will be easily transferred to the group’s factories in Romilly, France and Varberg, Sweden.
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UK Gear, the athletic footwear and apparel company that works...
UK Gear, the athletic footwear and apparel company that works with the British Army to develop athletic shoes, has been approved to supply training shoes to the U.S. Army. The shoe in question is the PT-03, which the American Army tested for a year before its selection. The company says ...
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Galvin Green, the Swedish golf apparel brand, is reinforcing its...
Galvin Green, the Swedish golf apparel brand, is reinforcing its team and resources in the German-speaking countries, as part of its expansion plans outside Scandinavia and the U.K. It has expanded its German team of two independent sales agents with a third agent for the north of the country, and ...
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Two new appointments have been made at Deckers Outdoor Corporation....
Two new appointments have been made at Deckers Outdoor Corporation. Jessica Buttimer is the new vice president for marketing, and Yul Vanek is the new vice president for information technology. Buttimer’s last position was at the Clorox Company, where she was global general manager of Green Works, the natural cleaning ...
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The British Golf Industry Association elected its new chairman at...
The British Golf Industry Association elected its new chairman at its recent annual dinner. Doug Poole of Golfsmith Europe will take over the reins from David Wells of Motocaddy, who was in charge for four years.
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Hi-Tec is boasting that European sales of its athletic footwear...
Hi-Tec is boasting that European sales of its athletic footwear climbed by 63 percent and outdoor footwear by 48 percent for the first quarter of 2010. It had a 35 percent increase in business with Stag buying group members compared with the same period in 2009. Company officials declined to ...
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Martin Binnendijk, chief executive officer of Hi-Tec, has been co-opted...
Martin Binnendijk, chief executive officer of Hi-Tec, has been co-opted to the board of directors of the British Outdoor Industries Association (OIA). Simultaneously, Mark Held, the secretary general of the European Outdoor Group, has stepped down from the same board to concentrate on his role with the EOG.
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We hear that Kenneth Kurtzweg has been hired by Lasse...
We hear that Kenneth Kurtzweg has been hired by Lasse Kjus to manage this high-end Swiss line of skiwear, effective May 1. Kurtzweg worked for Adidas during a decade, in charge of the adventure and running lines. Later on he led the apparel design process at Jack Wolfskin and Vaude.
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Korea has a new chain of bicycle retail stores, Biclo,...
Korea has a new chain of bicycle retail stores, Biclo, which is owned by LS Cable, a part of LG, the big Korean conglomerate known mainly for its electronics. The plan is to have at least 60 stores, which will sell mid to high-end bikes from Korean and international suppliers, ...
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Fila is looking into opening a museum in Biella, Italy,...
Fila is looking into opening a museum in Biella, Italy, next year to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the company’s founding there. In addition, the city has made Gene Yoon, the company’s Korean-born chairman, an honorary citizen. Yoon bought the rights to the Fila brand for Korea in 2005 and ...
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Tata, the big Indian conglomerate, has signed a joint venture...
Tata, the big Indian conglomerate, has signed a joint venture agreement with the Nitol-Niloy Group of Bangladesh to establish footwear and bicycle production facilities in the latter country. The goal is to produce 5,000 pairs of shoes a day and one million bikes per year, mainly for the European and ...
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Two leading researchers in biomechanics, Dr. Gert-Peter Bruggemann and Dr....
Two leading researchers in biomechanics, Dr. Gert-Peter Bruggemann and Dr. Joseph Hamill, are teaming up with Brooks Sports to conduct studies to enhance the company’s knowledge of running motion and use that to design footwear specially designed for individual runners’ needs. Bruggemann is the director of the Institute of Biomechanics ...
