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News briefsOutdoor Retailer could face boycott if it returns to Salt Lake City
Several outdoor companies announced Monday they would boycott the Outdoor Retailer (OR) trade show events if they were moved from Denver to Salt Lake City. Their reasoning is that they suspect the Utah state government has unacceptable plans for some state national monuments and public lands. The announcement came after ...
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News briefsFIBO 2022 holds on to April event in Cologne
The organizers of FIBO are committed to a return to normality in 2022. After a two-year absence, the global fitness show is to return as a physical show on April 7-10 in Cologne, Germany, with” the best possible health and safety protection for all attendees,” Koelnmesse says. One day before ...
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News briefsOR’s organizers release a report on B2B trade shows
Emerald Holding, the New York-based organizer of the Outdoor Retailer (OR) trade shows and others, has released its first research report about the exhibitors’ and visitors’ changing expectations that are influencing and shaping the future of the business-to-business (B2B) events industry. The report will be published annually in the future, ...
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Many ski brands show in the Netherlands
Many leading snow sports brands are participating in the “Winter Hardware Days” being organized at the Sports Business Center at Leusden for the Dutch market on Jan. 24 and 25, filling the gap left from the postponement of ISPO Munich to the end of November. Buyers are being asked to ...
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Covid cut Messe München’s revenues by €400m in 2020 and 2021
Messe München, the organizer of the ISPO trade shows, says it lost about €400 million in revenues over the past two years because of the Covid pandemic, but it is optimistic about this year, which will see 54 directly managed events being held inside and outside Germany, particularly in the ...
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No ISPO Beijing until December
The ISPO Group reported in mid-December that the ISPO Beijing fair, originally scheduled for Dec. 28-30, was going to be “postponed” because of the Covid pandemic. Veronica Pang, who was promoted to head up the ISPO China team last month, has told us that it will not happen anytime soon. ...
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News briefsArc’teryx launches first winter edition of its academies in Europe
Arc’teryx is already well known in Europe for its yearly summer Alpine Academy event in Chamonix. It is now launching for the first time a series of winter events in Europe, called Arc’teryx Academy, From Feb. 18 to 20, the “Arc’teryx Academy: freeride” premiere will be held in St. Anton, ...
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News briefsISPO Beijing 2021 is being postponed to an undefined date
The ISPO Group announced that ISPO Beijing, which was scheduled to take place from Dec. 28 to 30, 2021, at Beijing’s China National Convention Center, has had to be postponed at short notice in light of the still complex and serious pandemic situation at the national level and to implement ...
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News briefsISPO will hold an online “trend festival” in January and February
ISPO has announced the ISPO.com Trend Festival 2022, scheduled from Jan. 17 to Feb. 18, 2022, to celebrate the most innovative products, newcomers and important trends in the sporting goods and outdoor industry. After the strategic move of ISPO Munich’s dates from late January to its permanent new date in ...
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A Nov. 30 webinar on the EU’s new norms on vendor/retailer relations
Two webinars will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 30 to discuss new strategic opportunities and trade complications for the sale of sporting goods in Europe as of June 2022, based on a new updated version of the European Union’s Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER), which has been regulating vertical supply ...
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Some early regional sporting goods events are still on in some European countries
Regional sporting goods events in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Austria are gaining more importance for local buyers – at least for the preparation of the autumn/winter 2022/23 season – as the international ISPO Munich show has been permanently moved from the end of January to the end of November. In ...
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Spanish sports show in Cádiz targets a broader audience
A new Spanish Sports and Health Show (Feria del Deporte y la Vida Sana) is scheduled for Nov. 19-21 on the C-IFECA fairgrounds in Cádiz, hosting some 40 exhibitors. The organizers highlight a broadening of the industry’s focus since 1990 from elite athletes and professional clubs to the public at ...
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News briefsFree matchmaking program with the Korea Outdoor & Sports Industry Association
The Korea Outdoor & Sports Industry Association (KOIA), one of the most active and advanced national industry associations in the world, is organizing a series of online matchmaking events with European brands, distributors and retailers in view of the new EU–Korean free-trade agreement. Taking place at different time slots in ...
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Burton plans to launch a new "Mystery Series" tournament
Burton Snowboards has announced the imminent launch of the Burton Mystery Series, describing it as “a bold new beginning for the legendary Burton U·S·Open and the start of a reimagined future that’s unlike anything else in snowboarding events.” Throwing away the rules, it will focus on “what matters most: creativity, ...
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Norspo fair is cancelled, may be shifted to November
The Norwegian sporting goods show, Norspo, which was going to take place in Oslo on Jan. 9 and 10, has been cancelled like the one that was going to be held last January. Trond Evald Hansen, general manager of Norspomessen, is now betting that the new winter fair will take ...
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A new sportswear show for consumers in the U.K.
Independent Exhibitions (INDX) is founding a quarterly trade show for the U.K. devoted to both flavors of sportswear, athleisure and performance, in all varieties of sport. The first edition of Sports & Leisure, curated by the buying group Associated Independent Stores (AIS), is scheduled for Dec. 1-2 at the Cranmore ...
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Pádel returns to ISPO Munich
The 2022 edition of ISPO Munich will once again include the sport of pádel after an absence of seven years, reviving the Padel Village. According to Messe München’s director in Spain, Martina Claus, the village’s initial run, from 2014 to 2015, was premature. With few courts and few retailers then ...
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News briefsNew paddling trade show in Lyon
With the Covid-related postponement of the first Paddledays canoe show in Kassel, Germany, by one year to September 2022, a new player in the European paddling industry has stepped forward: The Paddle Sports Show in Lyon, France, wants to replace PaddleExpo in Nuremberg, Germany, which was held for the last ...
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News briefsOutDoor by ISPO Global Summit Edition 2021 is cancelled
The European Outdoor Group (EOG) and the ISPO Group have announced this evening (Sept. 27) that the OutDoor by ISPO: Global Summit Edition will not take place as planned on Oct. 5-7. A letter from the president of the EOG, Mark Held, was just received minutes before our daily Outdoor ...
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Expo 2020 Dubai will celebrate sports and fitness in 5,400-square-meter dedicated hub
Expo 2020 Dubai has unveiled its Sports, Fitness and Wellbeing Hub, a 5,400-square-meter space that will offer a large range of free sporting activities and an entire zone dedicated to fitness and wellness. The Hub features a multi-sports area for basketball, volleyball, tennis and netball, as well as a five-a-side ...
