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Vietnamese manufacturers react to the spreading virus
More than 1,000 companies operating in various sectors in the Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) region have managed to keep most of their workers on site, accommodating them in their factories or transporting them from hotels and other lodgings, to help avoid a shutdown of their operations due to the ...
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Tokyo bans Olympic spectators amid Covid-19 emergency
The Japanese Olympics Minister, Tamayo Marukawa, has announced that the Tokyo-area venues for the upcoming Summer Olympics, both indoor and outdoor, will not admit spectators. As for the presence of spectators in other areas, the organizers will consider “concrete measures” with each local governor involved, Marukawa said. The announcement comes ...
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Spain alone providing post-pandemic relief to the sport sector?
Spain is the only country in the EU that has so far included the sport sector in its subsidies for the recovery from Covid-19, according to the chairman of the country’s Upper Council on Sport (CSD), José Manuel Franco. The claim could not be verified at the time of going ...
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Chinese port congestion won't be cleared until the end of June
A backlog at Yantian, China’s largest container terminal, will take several weeks to clear, according to Maersk. The world’s largest shipping company told the news agency AFP that it had been informed by the port’s authorities that activity will return to normal by the end of June. The terminal had ...
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German retailers seize the Constitutional Court over the lockdowns
A group of ten German retailers including Intersport, Engelhorn and Rose Bikes have sued the German federal government in the country’s Constitution Court over its strict anti-Covid lockdown regulations. The current measures prevent the opening of so-called “non-essential” retail stores, including sporting goods retail shops, in areas where more than ...
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News briefsMarkus Hefter will join Polygiene
Source: Polygiene Markus Hefter Markus Hefter, who left the ISPO Group after 18 years earlier this month, will join the Swedish ingredient brand Polygiene as commercial director for EMEA in September. The 51-year-old German manager has been most recently in charge of the ISPO Munich and OutDoor ...
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News briefsNepal in humanitarian crisis, donations needed
Source: Sherpa Adventure Gear Sherpa Adventure Gear’s teams in the U.K. and Germany are receiving dramatic reports from the brand’s home country, Nepal. Medical care in the country is already at a very modest level under “normal” circumstances, but now it is catastrophic, according to the news. ...
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Nike sees HQ staff working at the office three days a week
Nike’s vice president of workplace design and connectivity, Jeff Nichols, has sent out in an email to affected employees, laying out a new in-office work policy for the company’s global headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Nike is to begin raising capacity, services and amenities there as of next month, while continuing ...
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BSI tells the German government that sport can help defeat Covid
The German Sporting Goods Industry Association (BSI) has called on the German federal government in an open letter to recognize the relevance of sport as an “effective corona (virus) prevention” and to use “sport as part of the solution for coping with pandemics.” Sport is important for physical and mental ...
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German golf grows during the pandemic
The number of licensed golfers in Germany rose by 1.36 percent to 651,417 in 2020, the highest increase in a year since 2012, according to a new report by a golf economy expert, Falk Billion, titled Golfmarkt Deutschland 2021. The report, which can be downloaded free of charge, is published ...
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German retail lockdown measures set through June 30
German legislation that imposes new limits on the opening of schools and non-essential retail stores, including sports shops, passed the Senate on Thursday, April 22. Already approved by the lower house of the German Parliament, the bill became law on Friday after being signed by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Stretching ...
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German retailers get cheap Covid tests from the GMS buying group
Since April 20, German employers are obliged to offer regular Covid-19 tests to staff members who are not working remotely from their homes. To enable its affiliated shoe and sports retailers to meet this obligation, the German-based GMS buying group is supplying its members with inexpensive rapid tests. To date, ...
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German Parliament sets limits for Click & Meet and Click & Collect
The lower chamber of the German Parliament has decided to raise the minimum permissible level for the non-essential retailers’ Click & Meet services (visiting the stores by appointment only) for areas of the country where 150 out of 100,000 residents are found to be contaminated by Covid-19. If the level ...
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FESI launches new Covid-19 survey
FESI has launched a third survey to assess the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the sporting goods industry. It is open to any sporting goods company operating in Europe, with a tentative deadline of April 28 for the replies. A specific section is devoted to winter sports. FESI’s previous ...
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Exercise boosts Covid survival, study finds
According to a study conducted by cardiologists at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in the Spanish capital of Madrid, patients who exercise regularly are eight times more likely to survive Covid-19 than sedentary patients. Published in the American medical journal Infectious Diseases and Therapy, the study examined 520 Covid-19 patients, ...
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New line brings ViralOff to retail customers
An Italian company called Colors has channeled Polygiene’s ViralOff antimicrobial treatment into a line of products for retail customers. The Regenesis ViralOff Trigger Shield line of sprays and other products works on soft surfaces, hard surfaces and fabrics. It also meets the same ISO standards as regular ViralOff – eliminating ...
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The European Outdoor Summit will be integrated into OutDoor by ISPO
The European Outdoor Group (EOG) has confirmed that this year’s European Outdoor Summit (EOS) will be combined with the Oct. 5-7 edition of the OutDoor by ISPO Global Summit trade show to create one major European outdoor industry event. This year’s EOS was originally going to be hosted by ...
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New Balance launches a new performance face mask
New Balance has released a new reusable face mask, specifically intended for fitness and performance activities. The New Balance Active Face Mask features three layers of a breathable fabric that is a mix of polyester, polypropylene and spandex. Its design helps to keep the mask away from the mouth and ...
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News briefsOutDoor by ISPO is postponed to Oct. 5-7
The show’s website reveals that OutDoor by ISPO – most recently planned as a mixed digital and physical Global Summit to be held in Munich in July – has now been postponed to Oct. 5-7, 2021. According to The Outdoor Industry Compass, the postponement was coordinated by the ISPO ...
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Golf courses and outdoor sports facilities are re-opening in the U.K.
The Welsh government has announced that golf courses and outdoor sports facilities are allowed to reopen from March 13 following the latest easing of lockdown measures in Wales. Outdoor sports facilities – including outdoor gyms, tennis courts and basketball courts – will be allowed to welcome visitors back as of ...
