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A couple of hundred Cressi Ellipse Black M5 scuba regulators...
A couple of hundred Cressi Ellipse Black M5 scuba regulators are being recalled by Cressi-Sub of New Jersey after it was discovered that a faulty high-pressure port can give inaccurate readings and pose a drowning threat to divers. The recalled products were sold between March and August last year in ...
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Nike has launched its new Total90 Laser III football boot,...
Nike has launched its new Total90 Laser III football boot, the purchase of which gives the customer access to Nike Soccer+, a digital coaching program to improve the players’ game that is available online, via mobile internet or through an iPhone application. The advice comes from the coaching team of ...
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Abacus, the Swedish golf brand, is a new official clothing...
Abacus, the Swedish golf brand, is a new official clothing partner of the European Challenge Tour effective this year. The three-year deal will see Abacus awarding a €10,000 clothing contract to the winner of the Tour at the end of each of the three seasons. Abacus is already the official ...
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Insistent rumors indicate that Puma is about to take the...
Insistent rumors indicate that Puma is about to take the place of Adidas after 14 years as sponsor of the Newcastle United team, owned by Mike Ashley, as of next autumn.
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Accell Group is buying all the shares in Bäumker &...
Accell Group is buying all the shares in Bäumker & Company, which supplies bicycles and bike parts to retailers. Bäumker has a close network of dealers in its home market, particularly in the northern and central regions of the country, and Accell’s Batavus brand of bikes is among the products ...
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Fifa has added e-commerce to its website, fifa.com, so that...
Fifa has added e-commerce to its website, fifa.com, so that football fans can directly buy licensed merchandise tied to events, such as this year’s World Cup, lifestyle apparel, and team products. Meanwhile, a British online retailer, Kitbag, launched last month a new interactive online catalog with the help of FMG ...
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Adidas’ store in Portland, Oregon, will be closing this month,...
Adidas’ store in Portland, Oregon, will be closing this month, following in the wake of a Puma store in the same area, and Li-Ning will be taking over the location for its first store in the U.S. Electric Europe has opened its first Electric store in the French ski ...
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Zoggs has developed its first cinema advertising campaign, to be...
Zoggs has developed its first cinema advertising campaign, to be run in theaters throughout the U.K. in the course of 2010.
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Frank Rudy, the man who created Air Sole technology for...
Frank Rudy, the man who created Air Sole technology for Nike, died last month at the age of 84. His innovation, which entailed putting small airbags into soles, made its debut in the Air Tailwind in 1979, and became more widespread in basketball and tennis shoes by 1982. The technology ...
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Alain Mikli, the biggest French supplier of designer prescription spectacles,...
Alain Mikli, the biggest French supplier of designer prescription spectacles, has taken over Sporoptic Pouilloux.The French company holds the global license for Vuarnet sunglasses, named after the late French ski champion, Jean Vuarnet, who won the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley. It made big losses in the past ...
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The company voluntary arrangements approved by the creditors and shareholders...
The company voluntary arrangements approved by the creditors and shareholders of Blacks Leisure Group last month are now in effect, as the time frame in which they could be challenged has passed. The company has also satisfied conditions allowing it to obtain new credit facilities with the Bank of Scotland ...
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Sport-Garmisch is taking back the distribution of Goldwin in Austria,...
Sport-Garmisch is taking back the distribution of Goldwin in Austria, after a two-year intermezzo with Phenix. The German distributor, which represented Goldwin between 2001 and 2007, has also taken on board a Norwegian knitwear brand, Nordstrikk, for the German and Austrian markets. Sport-Garmisch is also the German distributor of Daily ...
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Babolat has signed up the best French tennis player, Jo-Wilfried...
Babolat has signed up the best French tennis player, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, for racquets, strings and accessories, joining other champions such as Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick and Fernando Gonzalez.
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Etonic has moved back into several of Europe’s largest golf...
Etonic has moved back into several of Europe’s largest golf markets as part of the relaunch of its golf footwear range. Rights for the U.K. market had been almost dormant for the last two years in the hands of Limaco, an Irish company that focused on its own market. Two ...
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The Brazilian football star Pelé, with the backing of German...
The Brazilian football star Pelé, with the backing of German investors, is launching his own line of cleats and apparel, called Pelé Sports. This comes in the wake of the bankruptcy last Novermber of Nomis, a Swiss boot manufacturer that had a deal to develop a football boot with Pelé. ...
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A new golf show is being organized in Bangkok, Thailand,...
A new golf show is being organized in Bangkok, Thailand, from Apr. 30 to May 2, called the Southeast Asia/India Golf Merchandise Exposition, by a ciloabt cakked Asia Pacific Golf Development Conferences.
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Dale of Norway has expanded its sports collection with base...
Dale of Norway has expanded its sports collection with base layers, mid-layers and outerwear using natural fibers such as merino wool and technical fibers such as its new Comfort Technique and Knitshell. Base layer pieces include tops and leggings; the midlayers comprises hoodies and a full-zip jacket; and the outerlayer ...
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Icebreaker is the official supplier of base layers for the...
Icebreaker is the official supplier of base layers for the 2010 Olympic Committee of its home country, New Zealand. The 50 athletes competing in Vancouver will wear Icebreaker’s Bodyfit base-layer garments, from scarves to tops to gloves to leggings to socks.
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A new trade show is being organized for the fast-growing...
A new trade show is being organized for the fast-growing Turkish sporting goods market. Called Sport World Fair, it is due to be held in Istanbul next May 13-16. Pointing out that brands such as Adidas and Nike have already agreed to participate, the organizers indicate that they are expecting ...
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Kim Benjamin Franke, who comes from the toy industry, joins...
Kim Benjamin Franke, who comes from the toy industry, joins the European office of Californian Products, the Hong Kong-based supplier of inline skates and other action sports products, in the new position of European sales manager.
