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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty (TPP), a proposed trade deal between...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty (TPP), a proposed trade deal between 12 American and Asian countries, which is of major interest to some sporting goods companies, was at the center of frantic political action in the U.S. last week. On Tuesday, Democrats blocked a bill meant to provide fast-track negotiation powers ...
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The Portland Business Journal has reported that Nike Inc. has...
The Portland Business Journal has reported that Nike Inc. has subpoenaed several top global executives at the Adidas Group, including Eric Liedtke, the executive board member in charge of global brands, and the head of Adidas North America, Mark King. The subpoenas relate to the ongoing battle between Nike and three ...
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Members of BVA, the German federation of fishing equipment...
Members of BVA, the German federation of fishing equipment wholesalers and manufacturers, have resolved to dissolve the organisation, after failing to agree on its future. The main reason for the decision is the dwindling number of exhibitors and visitors at its trade and consumer shows, Anspo and Anspomeile, which were ...
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Marta Mercador is the new secretary general of Afydad, the...
Marta Mercador is the new secretary general of Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, from this month, taking the place of Paola Cobos. Mercador has collected experience in the organization of international trade shows and trade missions. Notably, she has worked for more than ten years in export promotion ...
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The Australian government has launched a new program, Play.Sport.Australia, to...
The Australian government has launched a new program, Play.Sport.Australia, to encourage more people to practice sports in a country where some 13,000 people die each year due to physical inactivity and where one-quarter of the children are overweight or obese. Australia's Ministry for Health & Sport wants to conduct a ...
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Helen Ford, formerly at Pentland Brands and Li & Fung,...
Helen Ford, formerly at Pentland Brands and Li & Fung, has been appointed from the start of April as the Asia director of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI), based in Hong Kong. Ford spent many years at the Pentland Group, as a supply chain director and ...
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The German Supreme Court, the Bundesgerichtshof, has ruled in favor...
The German Supreme Court, the Bundesgerichtshof, has ruled in favor of Puma in its case against a company selling tee-shirts under the Pudel brand name, according to ispo.com. The name was accompanied by a logo that was meant to represent a jumping poodle but was clearly reminiscent of Puma's leaping ...
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Adidas has sued Marc Jacobs in an Oregon court for...
Adidas has sued Marc Jacobs in an Oregon court for the designer's use of four parallel stripes along the sleeves of some knitted garments. Adidas claims that they are confusingly similar to the three stripes used in two garments designed in cooperation with Yohji Yamamoto for its own Y-3 line.
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Fila USA has reached a settlement with Converse, joining H&M,...
Fila USA has reached a settlement with Converse, joining H&M, Ralph Lauren, Tory Burch, the Aldo Group and three other alleged infringers of the trademark rights related to its Chuck Taylor All Star collection of sneakers. The action is a response to a complaint filed by Converse last October with ...
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A U.S. federal court has awarded $3.3 million in damages...
A U.S. federal court has awarded $3.3 million in damages to Columbia Sportswear in its lawsuit against Fibretonics over its Omni-Heat technology, introduced in 2011. In the suit, filed in September 2013, Columbia had requested damages of $9.4 million, charging that Fibertronics' improperly aligned heating components in the wrist cuffs ...
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Stuart Jones, the 40-year-old son of Sir David Jones, has...
Stuart Jones, the 40-year-old son of Sir David Jones, has been found not guilty of forging a bank statement in relation to the fraudulent payments that his father had allegedly received in 2009 from Dave Whelan, founder of JJB Sports, and Mike Ashley, president of Sports Direct International. Stuart Jones ...
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The supervisory board of Intersport Germany has announced a settlement...
The supervisory board of Intersport Germany has announced a settlement with Klaus Jost, who served as one of the two general managers of the buying group between 2001 and November of last year. He was dismissed following his objections to a change in the structure of the executive board where ...
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Cocona has filed a request for a declaratory U.S....
Cocona has filed a request for a declaratory U.S. court judgment that its patented 37.5 technology does not infringe on two U.S. patents held by a producer of bed sheets and sleepwear, Sheex. The latter had filed two lawsuits in a federal U.S. court against Cocona last Nov. 12, ...
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Skechers USA has been sued by Under Armour. The lawsuit...
Skechers USA has been sued by Under Armour. The lawsuit alleges that a sports circuit training commercial “slavishly copies” a highly successful “Protect This House” campaign released by Under Armour five years ago. Skechers will not comment on pending litigation.
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The Royal St George's golf club, an Open Championship venue...
The Royal St George's golf club, an Open Championship venue in Kent, has voted to allow women members for the first time. The resolution in favor of this change was adopted at an extraordinary general meeting last month, with immediate effect. More than 81 percent of the full members took ...
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Stuart Jones, the son of the former executive chairman of...
Stuart Jones, the son of the former executive chairman of JJB Sports, Sir David Jones, is standing trial for allegedly helping his father forge a bank statement to disguise a £1.5 million (€2.09m-$2.27m) loan from the board of the defunct retailer. The trial started at Leeds Crown Court on March ...
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The founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, and Nike's brand president,...
The founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, and Nike's brand president, Trevor Edwards, have been inducted into the 2015 Marketing Hall of Fame, a scheme run by the New York chapter of the American Marketing Association to celebrate brilliance in marketing across all fields and organizations, including corporations, consulting firms, agencies ...
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El Corte Inglés, VF Corp., Li & Fung and PVH...
El Corte Inglés, VF Corp., Li & Fung and PVH have agreed to start sourcing their apparel products from Azim Group in Bangladesh after the company agreed to negotiate with workers' unions at two of its 24 factories in the country. As reported by The New York Times, Azim will ...
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In a stunning twist to the dispute around the sale of...
In a stunning twist to the dispute around the sale of Adidas by Bernard Tapie in 1993, a Paris appeals court has scrapped the decision of an arbitration committee that awarded compensation of about €403 million to the French businessman in 2008 – deeming the procedure fraudulent. This came after questions were ...
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The Adidas Group filed a federal lawsuit in a U.S....
The Adidas Group filed a federal lawsuit in a U.S. court in Miami on Feb. 4 against 79 different e-commerce sites, charging that they have been selling and distributing counterfeit products under the Adidas and Reebok brands. Many of the websites are operating outside the U.S. The defendants include chinajoy, ...
