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Callaway Golf and Acushnet Company have jointly announced a settlement...
Callaway Golf and Acushnet Company have jointly announced a settlement of all the pending litigation and disputes between them. No money is changing hands, but under the terms of the agreement, each company will have specified rights to make ball and club products under patents owned by the other. Details ...
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Nike and Reebok reached a settlement in a U.S. court...
Nike and Reebok reached a settlement in a U.S. court in a case involving new merchandise created by Reebok for Tim Tebow, the new quarterback of the New York Jets American football team. Nike sued Reebok on March 27 to prevent it from selling a line of jerseys and T-shirts ...
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New reports of mass fainting by maltreated workers have reached...
New reports of mass fainting by maltreated workers have reached the news wires from Cambodia. Nike is now under the spotlight after Puma, H&M and JCPenney. The latest case of fainting involves more than 300 workers at the Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Mfg. Corporation plant in Cambodia, which makes apparel for ...
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The EU has launched a program to support the development...
The EU has launched a program to support the development of sustainable cotton in Pakistan throughout the supply chain. It will cover the process from farm to final product, including liaisons with retailers and brands, and is funded by the Switch Asia initiative. WWF-Pakistan will fund the project, which is ...
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Some top sporting apparel brands, including Adidas, Nike and Li...
Some top sporting apparel brands, including Adidas, Nike and Li Ning, have been accused of buying clothes from Chinese suppliers who illegally discharge polluted water. Several groups – Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPEA), Green Beagle, Envirofriends and Nanjing Greenstone – put out a ...
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Adidas has been ordered to pay some 200,000 Russian rubles...
Adidas has been ordered to pay some 200,000 Russian rubles (€5,000-$6,600) for delayed deliveries to the Russian army, according to media reports in Die Welt and Iswestija, two leading newspapers in Germany and Russia, respectively. Apparently, the Russian army had demanded damages worth 115 million rubles (€2.9m-$3.8m), but a court ...
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Sport is probably going to suffer a big cut from...
Sport is probably going to suffer a big cut from the package of austerity measures taken by the Spanish government to reduce its indebtedness. The Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports has seen its annual budget slashed by 21.2 percent to €3,088 million this year. The total budget of ...
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The French cycling industry federation, CNPC, which has 36 member...
The French cycling industry federation, CNPC, which has 36 member firms, has signed a cooperation agreement with Fifas, the French sporting goods industry federation, mirroring in some ways what happened recently at the level of World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry. CNPC will move into the office of Fifas, ...
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Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, has announced the...
Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, has announced the establishment of a dedicated business unit for outdoor sports. Andrea Parisotto, chief financial officer and major shareholder of Calzaturificio Scarpa, has been elected president of Assosport's Outdoor Group. He will nominate a vice president, but the assembly has indicated Luca ...
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The International Olympic Committee will hear a presentation on April...
The International Olympic Committee will hear a presentation on April 19 for the inclusion of baseball and softball into the program for the Summer Olympic Games after Rio de Janeiro. The IOC is scheduled to make a decision on the addition of one more sport in September 2013. Besides baseball ...
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The idea of a Canadian student for an African charity...
The idea of a Canadian student for an African charity has expanded to involve the World Squash Federation and the African Squash Federation. Those two groups are supporting Rackets for Africa, an initiative born out of Riley Waterous' idea of collecting used squash racquets and sending them to communities in ...
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Adidas, Reebok, Ikea and other parties are studying a possible...
Adidas, Reebok, Ikea and other parties are studying a possible challenge to a clause in the Indian government's new regulations for single-brand retail shops, which requires 30 percent of the products to be sourced locally. Meanwhile, the Indian government has indicated that a ministerial meeting will decide by the end ...
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The Japan Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order...
The Japan Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order against Adidas Japan, asking it to stop pressuring Japanese retailers against discounting Reebok EasyTone footwear. According to the government agency, Adidas has threatened to cut them off unless they stop discounting the merchandise. In a statement, Adidas said it is ...
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War on Want, a U.K.-based organization that intends to fight...
War on Want, a U.K.-based organization that intends to fight poverty in developing countries, has issued a 20-page report, titled “Race to the Bottom,” charging that workers at six garment factories working for Adidas, Nike and Puma in Bangladesh are exploiting their workers on the eve of the Olympic Games ...
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The World Trade Organization has endorsed a proposal by the...
The World Trade Organization has endorsed a proposal by the European Commission to grant duty-free status to the imports into the European Union of 75 categories of products coming from Pakistan, including sports shoes, anoraks and many types of garments, because of the damage caused to the country by extensive ...
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Six golf vendors have taken joint legal action against websites...
Six golf vendors have taken joint legal action against websites in the U.S. that mainly target the state of Florida. The brands or companies that appear as plaintiffs in this U.S. federal lawsuit, filed in Miami, are Ping, TaylorMade, Acushnet, SRI Sports, Cleveland and Callaway. The defendants are more than ...
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Cybex International has met all the requirements of the Nasdaq...
Cybex International has met all the requirements of the Nasdaq stock market to continue being listed there. Its recent product liability judgment meant that Cybex has failed to comply with some listing standards, but the judgment has been settled and the failures to comply have been rectified.
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At the end of February, Odlo shut down its factory...
At the end of February, Odlo shut down its factory outlet in the southern German town of Metzingen on schedule, after a five-month trial run. Metzingen is well known as a mecca for smart shoppers in the country, much like Troyes in France. The town is the base of Hugo ...
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Michael Jordan, the American basketball legend, is suing Qiaodan Sports...
Michael Jordan, the American basketball legend, is suing Qiaodan Sports Company of China for using his name. The term “Qiaodan” is the name Jordan has been known by in China since he first became known there, when he played for the U.S. team in the 1984 Olympics. Jordan said in ...
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Backcountry Access (BCA) reached an extremely high level of awareness...
Backcountry Access (BCA) reached an extremely high level of awareness with a film broadcast on YouTube that has been viewed by at least 730,000 people. The film shows an athlete, Meesh Hytner, taking part in a grassroots snowboard freeriding event and getting into trouble with loads of snow. The rider ...
