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Nordica USA will pay $214,000 as a penalty to the...
Nordica USA will pay $214,000 as a penalty to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for not reporting known problems with the binding plates on its XBi ALU skis. In autumn 2008, the company had about 200 warranty claims from customers whose binding plates had cracked and broken, which could ...
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Speedo has its sights on an Australian blogger, accusing him...
Speedo has its sights on an Australian blogger, accusing him of breach of copyright and saying his website is damaging the brand. Dave Evans, 24, argues that Speedo has become a generic term. Speedo is asking the Federal Court in Canberra to restrict the use of domain names including the ...
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The National Health Service of the U.K. has forbidden hospital...
The National Health Service of the U.K. has forbidden hospital workers from wearing Crocs or similar rubber clogs while working, having found numerous instances of sharp objects penetrating their soles. The Telegraph reported that the U.K. is just the latest of many countries, including the U.S., Canada, Sweden and Austria, ...
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New Zealand's Ministry of Economic Development and the country's Customs...
New Zealand's Ministry of Economic Development and the country's Customs Service have been given more power to investigate and prosecute parties involved in the manufacture, importation and sale of counterfeit products in New Zealand under new legislation passed by the local parliament. The Adidas Group recently scored a victory in ...
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The Indian government has indicated that it is prepared to...
The Indian government has indicated that it is prepared to allow duty-free importation of several textile and clothing products from Bangladesh to help restore a better trade balance between the two countries.
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+++ Specialized is recalling about 14,200 bicycles in the U.S....
+++ Specialized is recalling about 14,200 bicycles in the U.S. from its 2011 line, made in Taiwan, with Advanced Group carbon forks +++
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Nike China has admitted to false advertising for its Nike...
Nike China has admitted to false advertising for its Nike Zoom Hyperdunk 2011, which it started selling at the end of July. Caixin.com reports that the advertisements stated that the shoes sold in China had two Zoom Air cushions – like the ones sold in the U.S. – but in ...
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Nautilus is sueing Icon Health & Fitness for breach of...
Nautilus is sueing Icon Health & Fitness for breach of contract in a federal court in San Antonio, Texas. It complains that Icon failed to make timely and accurate payments of royalties on patent licensing agreements between July 2006 and Sept. 2010. The contract stipulated a royalty fee of 4 ...
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Lafuma has become an associate member of Fesi, the Federation...
Lafuma has become an associate member of Fesi, the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, alongside other individual companies such as Adidas, Nike, Lotto, Puma and Tecnica. Its application for membership was unanimously accepted by Fesi's board of directors. Among other privileges, associate membership gives Lafuma the right to ...
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The British Office of Fair Trading has announced that it...
The British Office of Fair Trading has announced that it is dropping its investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices among sports retailers. In September 2009, the OFT started the probe when JJB Sports accused Sports Direct of taking part in an agreement to tamp down competition in the sports retail segment. ...
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Holey Soles and Double Diamond Distribution of Canada, plus a...
Holey Soles and Double Diamond Distribution of Canada, plus a Massachusetts retailer selling Waldies clogs are going to be forbidden from selling foam shoes like those of Crocs in the U.S. if President Obama endorses a decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission. Crocs has thus won a ...
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A group of young models is suing Skechers USA, accusing...
A group of young models is suing Skechers USA, accusing it using their images without proper payment. The complaint, filed in Superior Court in Los Angeles, say that Skechers paid a small fee for limited use of the models' images, but then built a global branding campaign around the photos, ...
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The extension of the present European anti-dumping duties on bicycles...
The extension of the present European anti-dumping duties on bicycles imported from China was backed by a majority of the governments represented at a recent meeting of the anti-dumping committee of the European Commission, according to a report in Bike Europe. The Commission has apparently proposed that they should be ...
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The Turkish government is expected to announce shortly a major...
The Turkish government is expected to announce shortly a major increase in the country's import duties for apparel and some other items until April 2014. Adidas, Nike and other sports companies have been advocating the exclusion of certain items that cannot be manufactured in Turkey.
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Representatives of Adidas, Nike and Puma have signed a protocol...
Representatives of Adidas, Nike and Puma have signed a protocol with representatives of Indonesian factory workers, their unions and various institutions, including the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry, to support and promote the adoption of practices that will strengthen the application of Freedom of Association guidelines in Indonesian ...
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Greenpeace has reported that Chinese plants making products for Adidas,...
Greenpeace has reported that Chinese plants making products for Adidas, Nike and Puma polluted rivers in the country, sending toxic, hormone-disrupting chemicals that are banned in Europe and elsewhere into the water. The plants were subcontractors of the big athletic companies as well as other brands such as Li Ning, ...
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The Indian government has announced that it is going...
The Indian government has announced that it is going to take action to fight the cotton crisis in the country. It was holding consultations among ministries this week to take a look at cotton exports. Measures it could introduce include reinstating duty drawback on cotton yarn exports and establishing a ...
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is overseeing the recall...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is overseeing the recall of about 800 Uvex Funride ski helmets that were imported into the U.S. by Uvex Sports of Rhode Island and Swix Sports of Massachusetts. The helmets were found to provide insufficient shock absorption and resistance to penetration, increasing the wearer's ...
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Dahon North America, the maker of folding bicycles, has filed...
Dahon North America, the maker of folding bicycles, has filed suit in a U.S. District Court again Joshua Hon and Florence Hon, two former officers of the company, and two companies they operate, Mobility Holdings and Tern Bicycles. Dahon alleges that the two wrongfully seized control of its Taiwan subsidiary, ...
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Puma said that, as part of its legal battle with...
Puma said that, as part of its legal battle with its former licensee in Spain, any new arbitration case would have to be resolved within six months after its filing. Puma and Estudio 2000 already went through arbitration after the licensee refused to relinquish its rights to the Puma brand ...
