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News briefsTwo pádel shows coming to Italy
Two pádel trade shows are seeing the light of day in Italy, according to the Clúster Internacional del Pádel (CIP). The first to have been conceived by the event company Next Group is Padel Trend. This was supposed to take place in Rome, but a proposed deal with Fiera Roma ...
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News briefsPadel Expo Sweden to make its debut
Some 153 brands will be attending the inaugural edition of Padel Expo Sweden this Sep. 16-18 in Stockholm, according to the Clúster Internacional del Pádel (CIP). Of these 33 will be Spanish and 31 associated with the CIP, which will have a stand of its own. Unlikely to be present, ...
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News briefsComeback of Munich Fabric Start after the pandemic
Source: Munich Fabric Start The 50th edition of Munich Fabric Start, the international fabric trade show in Munich, which was held from Aug. 30 to Sep. 1, hosted around 900 exhibitors from 40 countries on a total exhibition area of 45,000 square meters. The event’s exhibition area ...
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News briefsRegistration open for WFSGI Annual Meetings, General Assembly and World Sports Forum
The online registration for the WFSGI 2022 Annual Meetings, General Assembly and World Sports Forum is open. The events are taking place from Nov. 28-30 2022 in Munich, parallel to ISPO Munich. 2022 is a WFSGI election year, and a new chairman and board of directors will be elected. The ...
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News briefsNeonyt moves to Düsseldorf
The next edition of Neonyt, Messe Frankfurt’s sustainable fashion and business show, will take place in Düsseldorf for the first time in January 2023. Originally known as the Paris-based Ethical Fashion Show, the event was bought by Messe Frankfurt in 2012 and merged with its own Greenshowroom Berlin. Neonyt will ...
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News briefsSurf Expo launches tool to help buyers, brands connect more efficiently
Emerald’s Surf Expo watersports and coastal lifestyle marketplace is launching Surf Expo Connect in conjunction with its upcoming show at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, on Sept. 8-10. Surf Expo Connect provides a seamless way for both buyers and exhibitors “to create meaningful new business connections, make ...
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News briefsNew date, same venue: OutDoor by ISPO to be held at MOC for one more year
In a joint statement, the European Outdoor Group and Messe München have announced that the next OutDoor by ISPO will be held at MOC, in the north of Munich, just like the most recent 2022 edition of the show. However, the date is changing, and the show is now scheduled ...
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News briefsFITEX Paris, a new fitness show
FITEX is a new trade show and congress experience that will debut in Paris later this year. The event’s first edition is scheduled to take place at the Parc Floral, in the 12th arrondissement of France’s capital city, from Oct. 6 to 9. The show will be open to professionals ...
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News briefsSurf Expo with more than 600 exhibiting brands in September in Orlando
Surf Expo, the world’s largest and longest-running watersports, beach and resort lifestyle trade show, returns to the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, Sept. 8-10. According to organizers, the show will feature more than 600 exhibitors – including 150 new brands – and 18 percent more floor space than ...
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News briefsEurobike premiers at Frankfurt, welcomes 61,150 visitors from 105 nations
Source: Eurobike The new Eurobike format that moved from the former Friedrichshafen venue to Frankfurt, Germany, attracted significantly more visitors (both professionals and consumers) than the last pre-Covid edition. In its official after-show report, the organizing company, Fairnamic, speaks of 33,780 visitors from the bike industry and ...
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News briefsISPO Award Webinar for interested brands
ISPO has announced that it will offer a webinar on July 27, 2022, for all interested brands or companies that wish to participate in the ISPO Award. For the past six months, the concept of the ISPO Award has changed fundamentally. There are four jury meetings ...
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News briefsFree WFSGI and McKinsey webinar on July 7: Industry challenges and potential solutions
On Thursday, July 7, 2022, McKinsey & Company and WFSGI will co-present a webinar that will explore the challenges that the sporting goods industry is currently facing. The free webinar follows McKinsey’s second annual sporting goods industry report, “Sporting Goods 2022 – The New Normal is here.” Inflation and the ...
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News briefsParis 2024 combines art and sport in its Cultural Olympiad
The Paris 2024 Organising Committee has launched its Cultural Olympiad, a program in which art and sport enrich each other and interact with the Paris 2024 Games. The Cultural Olympiad explores the connections between art and athletics and the values they share of excellence, inclusion, cultural diversity and universalism, among ...
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News briefsSport 2000 Austria Order Show is the “industry meeting point”
82 Sport 2000 retailers visited the Sport 2000 Multisport Order Show in Ohlsdorf, Upper Austria, from June 14 to 15 and got an overview of the product range for the spring and summer season 2023 from around 55 brands. On 2,000 square meters of floor space, the focus was on ...
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Tréndico holds first in-person convention in two years
This month, Tréndico Group held its first in-person convention since January 2020, CMDsport reports. In attendance were 44 brands and some 80 percent of the owners of the 475 stores under its Atleet and Foot on Mars banners. The convention was on par with the previous show, a virtual one ...
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News briefsFitnessConnected show in Munich moves to ICM
The FitnessConnected show (planned for Nov. 28-30, 2022) is moving from Hall C1 of the Messe Munich exhibition center to the International Congress Center (ICM). This brings the show into the immediate vicinity of the Therapie München exhibition, which will remain in Hall B0 as initially planned. In addition to ...
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A new national conference in France on sustainability in the sports industry
This autumn, the French world of sport will discuss sustainability issues across the sports industry in a new dedicated conference at the Center for Resources, Expertise and Sports Performance (CREPS) in Chatenay-Malabry, near Paris, on Oct. 18-19. The event, organized by the association Ecolosport, is supported by insurance company MAIF ...
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News briefsLondon Ski & Snowboard Festival 2022 is canceled
The London Ski & Snowboard Festival planned for Oct. 27 to 30, 2022, at Battersea Park is canceled. The new organizer of the event, the Smart Group, has published a statement on Facebook, declaring the cancellation of this year’s festival and the introduction of another new organization: “We have been ...
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Sport Achat Hiver to take place in January
The next edition of Sport Achat Hiver, the B2B event for industry professionals in the mountain, outdoor and winter sports markets, will take place in January instead of March. Sport Achat is organized in Lyon, France, by Sportair. The last edition of the trade show, which took place on March ...
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News briefsKeynote speakers for Better Cotton Conference announced
The Better Cotton Conference in Malmö, Sweden, on June 22 and 23, has announced two of its keynote speakers: Balubhai Parmar and Lacy Vardeman. Parmar is a cotton grower from Gujarat, India, who leads an enterprising group of Better Cotton farmers that are all small enterprises. At the conference, he ...
