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Fitbit, the San Francisco-based purveyor of fitness trackers, says it...
Fitbit, the San Francisco-based purveyor of fitness trackers, says it has struck a deal with the Health Promotion Board (HPB) of Singapore to use its products to realize the national health agency's aspirations for public health. The project, Live Healthy SG, fits within the government's Smart Nation initiative. Although Singapore's ...
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While confirming its intention to impose an additional punitive 10...
While confirming its intention to impose an additional punitive 10 percent import duty on many still unspecified footwear categories and other products originating in China, the administration of President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 13 a postponed implementation for some of the products from Sept. 1 to Dec. 15. There ...
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Skechers and Adidas have reached a settlement in their dispute...
Skechers and Adidas have reached a settlement in their dispute over footwear stripes. A filing by Skechers on July 29 at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California asked for the dismissal without prejudice of a lawsuit brought by Adidas, which had claimed that Skechers' Goldie-Peaks shoe infringed its Three Stripes ...
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After a brief truce in the dispute between the U.S....
After a brief truce in the dispute between the U.S. and Chinese government, President Donald Trump announced today that the U.S. will impose extra duties of 10 percent on $300 billion worth of annual imports from China as of Sept. 1. The list of the affected products has not yet ...
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Investigating a tax case, the public prosecutor's office of Munich...
Investigating a tax case, the public prosecutor's office of Munich has searched the business premises of Bogner, the Munich-based fashion company. A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office confirmed the search on July 24 but did not disclose further details about the case. A company spokeswoman has stated that the company ...
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Ortlieb won a lawsuit in Federal Court against Amazon on July...
Ortlieb won a lawsuit in Federal Court against Amazon on July 25. The German company wants to prevent the appearance of ads with the Ortlieb brand name on Google, which are linked to offers on the Amazon homepage. The issue is that, when searching a term with Ortlieb in it, such ...
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Andrea Tomat, president of Lotto Sport Italia and Stonefly, has...
Andrea Tomat, president of Lotto Sport Italia and Stonefly, has settled a legal dispute with Gianni Lorenzato, a former shareholder and vice president of Lotto. Lorenzato has agreed to sell his remaining stake of 24 percent in a holding company, NexTB, to Tomat on undisclosed terms. Tomat will thus be ...
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Bernard Tapie has won a court battle over his controversial...
Bernard Tapie has won a court battle over his controversial sale of Adidas in 1994. Citing a lack of evidence, a high court in Paris dismissed a request that he should spend five years in prison on charges of fraud and abuse of public funds. The French maverick investor was ...
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The session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that was...
The session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that was held in Lausanne on June 25 unanimously approved the Paris 2024 proposal to include sport climbing, surfing, skateboarding and break dancing in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in the French capital city. A final decision on their inclusion is now to be ...
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Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), the French-based association based in Annecy,...
Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), the French-based association based in Annecy, has appointed Benjamin Thaller as its new managing director. He replaces Anne Schott, who has left the organization to pursue other professional opportunities after 30 months in the role. Thaller was previously marketing director at Julbo and, prior to that, ...
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Neymar da Silva Santos Jr., commonly known simply as Neymar,...
Neymar da Silva Santos Jr., commonly known simply as Neymar, the Nike-sponsored forward on both the Paris Saint-Germain and Brazilian national football teams, has been accused of rape. His 27-year-old accuser, whose name has not been disclosed, filed a report to that effect on May 31 with the police in ...
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Eurosima, the European association of action sports manufacturers, has announced...
Eurosima, the European association of action sports manufacturers, has announced the election of Jean-Louis Rodrigues as its new president. Rodrigues is Boardriders' general manager for wholesale for the EMEA region. He will take over from Wilco Prins, the former general manager of Rip Curl Europe, who has held two consecutive ...
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The national police of Spain and the municipal police of...
The national police of Spain and the municipal police of Madrid have broken up a counterfeiting ring in Spain's capital. They have arrested six people and seized some 2,000 items, mostly apparel, bearing the logos of football teams in the Champions League, Spain's LaLiga and the Union of European Football ...
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Adidas succeeded in securing copyright registration in the U.S. for...
Adidas succeeded in securing copyright registration in the U.S. for the styling of the Yeezy Boost 350 v1 and v2 sneakers as the review board of the U.S. Copyright Office reversed an earlier decision rejecting the unique “artwork and sculpture” of the designs, according to The Fashion Law.
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Apparently, the trade war between in the U.S. and China...
Apparently, the trade war between in the U.S. and China is unlikely to end soon, with dire consequences for many outdoor companies, including non-U.S. companies that deliver China-made products to the U.S. President Xi of China warned his citizens that they may be facing another Long March on the issue. ...
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In a regulatory filing, Lululemon declared that its founder, Chip...
In a regulatory filing, Lululemon declared that its founder, Chip Wilson, no longer had the right to appoint a board director because he had violated certain terms of a 2014 agreement that gave him that right as long as he owned at least 8.0 percent of the shares and “did ...
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Adidas has filed an appeal in a federal court in...
Adidas has filed an appeal in a federal court in Washington, D.C., to uphold its rights in its long-standing patent dispute with Nike over their knitted shoe uppers. Adidas is trying to reverse a Feb. 19 ruling by the appeals board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office which found ...
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Brooks Running has settled a long-standing dispute with Anta Sports...
Brooks Running has settled a long-standing dispute with Anta Sports Products over the Chinese company's use of a chevron logo. The terms of settlement have not been disclosed. Brooks had opposed the registration by Anta of its logo in the U.S. in May 2014. For its part, Anta noted in ...
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Following Burton and Nitro in the past year, Quiksilver has...
Following Burton and Nitro in the past year, Quiksilver has joined the European Outdoor Group (EOG) as a full member. The association, which now has 104 full members and 10 associate members, says that Quiksilver's move was motivated by the work that it is doing on sustainability. It already has ...
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CrossFit has lifted the ban on non-Reebok footwear in the...
CrossFit has lifted the ban on non-Reebok footwear in the CrossFit Games, its annual summertime competition. Reebok will continue to supply apparel for the Games, but competitors may now wear shoes from their own sponsors, which include Nobull, Under Armour, Inov8 and Adidas. Reebok became the title sponsor of the ...
