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Italy focuses on bid to stage UEFA Euro 2032
The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has announced plans to host the UEFA Euro 2032. Italy, the winner of the 2021 tournament, had considered a bid for Euro 2028, but FIGC’s president Gabriele Gravina said a proposal to host the tournament in 2032 would allow more time to modernize stadiums across ...
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Puma North America falls victim to ransomware attack
Bleepingcomputer.com reports that after a ransomware attack on one of Puma’s North American workforce management service providers, Kronos, in December 2021, cybercriminals also stole Puma North America employees’ data from the Kronos private cloud. Ransomware attacks involve malware that is installed undetected in the victim’s system. The malware then encrypts ...
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Nike suspends football player on allegations of sexual assault
Nike has suspended the four-year sponsorship contract it had signed a year ago with Mason Greenwood, the 20-year-old Manchester United striker who was arrested last Sunday on suspicion of raping a woman, based on videos posted on social media. The local police is also suspecting that he was threatening to ...
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Peloton gets sued about overtime pay
Adding to many other pending product liability and class action suits affecting the American connected fitness company, it’s now the turn for a former inside sales representative to sue Peloton Interactive, this time for alleged violation of federal and state labor legislation. The suit, filed in the New York Court ...
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FESI launches a sustainability network for winter sports companies
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) has launched a joint initiative, called the FESI Winter Sport Sustainability Network (FESI-WSN), to “increase the knowledge and cooperation on sustainability and circularity within the winter sports Industry.” The network will be holding four annual meetings, with roundtable discussions involving industry ...
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New Balance extends its trademarks into the metaverse
Joining Nike, Adidas, Puma and Under Armour in their journeys into the metaverse, New Balance has filed trademark applications in the U.S. to extend its brand into virtual merchandise and services, including virtual footwear, apparel, sports bags, equipment and accessories. The three applications cover the New Balance trade name as ...
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Sporting goods retailers hit by the unrest in Kazakhstan
Sportmaster and other retailers in Kazakhstan suffered losses of around 25 billion tenges (€50.5m -$57m) from marauders as part of the recent civil unrest in the country, the Union of Trade Networks of Kazakhstan said in a statement on its website, adding that this data is preliminary. The National Chamber ...
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U.S. Congress seeks reassurances from the IOC over Xinjiang
On Jan. 12, the U.S. Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC) sent a letter to the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, inquiring about contracts for the acquisition of Olympic uniforms, as the suppliers, Anta and Hengyanxiang (HYX), have publicly acknowledged that they use cotton from the ...
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Nike, Columbia to begin firing unvaxxed employees
According to Oregonlive, which covers the sportswear giant’s home state of Oregon, Nike was set on Jan. 15 to begin firing employees who were not, by the current definition, vaccinated against Covid-19 and had not received a religious or medical exemption. According to the same source, Columbia Sportswear, also headquartered ...
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Moncler says some data were stolen in cyber attack
Moncler said that key data on the credit cards of its customers and other means of payment were not included among the data stolen in a cyber attack suffered a few weeks ago, as the company did not store such data on its systems. It admitted that other data on ...
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SMS comments on UK Active’s report on “social prescribing”
A new report by UK Active has called for an expansion of sports participation to reduce pressure on the National Health System (NHS) of the U.K. The report, sponsored by Matrix, discusses the role of “social prescribing” in the fitness and leisure sector. In the U.K., social prescribing is a ...
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ABG and Shaq file for digital trademarks
Like Nike, Adidas and many others, the Authentic Brands Group (ABG) is staking out a claim in the metaverse. As Footwear News reports, ABG and the retired NBA player Shaquille O’Neal filed three trademark applications in December for the word “SHAQ” as applied to non-downloadable virtual footwear, clothing, headwear and ...
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ITC investigates Adidas’ Primeknit technology
The International Trade Commission of the U.S. has decided to launch an investigation to determine whether Adidas’ Primeknit technology for knitted shoe uppers infringe on six Nike patents for its Flyknit technology. If it determines that Nike’s claims are valid, the ITC may issue exclusion and cease and desist orders, ...
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Jon Ram will chair SFIA
Jonathan Ram, whose career included a stint of more than four years as managing director of New Balance for the EMEA region in 2007-2012, has been elected as chairman of the SFIA, the Sports & Fitness Industry Association of the U.S. He worked for New Balance in various roles between ...
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Lululemon accuses Peloton of improper legal conduct
Lululemon Athletica asked a federal U.S. court in Manhattan to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Peloton Interactive on Nov. 24, claiming improper legal behavior. The Canadian sports apparel company supplied the clothing for a Peloton branded line from 2016 until the American connected fitness company launched its own range in ...
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Nike sues Lululemon for patent infringement
Nike has filed a suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan against Lululemon Athletica, alleging the infringement of six U.S. patents by the latter’s Mirror Home Gym and related apps, reportedly after Lululemon summarily rejected Nike’s demand to stop the alleged infringements. The Mirror is an interactive, wall-mounted screen that ...
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New Balance stores in Iberia are due to close
The 22 mono-brand stores of New Balance in Spain and Portugal are reportedly going to be shut down by Jan. 15, as they will be no longer supplied with products following the non-renewal of a five-year-old retail store licensing agreement with a Spanish company, Experience Group. The latter was notified ...
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Catalonia seeks to extend Spain’s cultural subsidy to sport
The Union of Sports Federations of Catalonia (UFEC) has renewed its request to the Spanish government for a subsidy to be given to consumers to boost sports participation. The initial request was among the measures proposed in the UFEC’s “Marshall Plan” for the sports industry, submitted in April 2020 with ...
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Draft law would overhaul Spain’s policy on sports
Spain’s Council of Ministers has approved a bill to overhaul national policy on sports through the revision and expansion of a law that dates to 1990. According to its proponent, the Spanish Minister of Culture and Sport Miquel Iceta, the new law would represent an advance in values and take ...
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Change of the guard in Xinjiang
U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act on Dec. 23. The bill, which had been previously approved by both Houses of the U.S. Congress, in spite of reported offstage objections by multinationals such as Apple, Coca-Cola and Nike, bans imports of cotton and other ...
