All Racquet Sports articles – Page 28
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Running and tennis buoy Asics
Asics Europe lifted its sales by 8 percent in constant currencies for the nine months through September of last year, in spite of its decision to pull out of a few significant accounts as part of its selective distribution policy. After a robust third quarter, Asics Europe now expects even ...
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Tomas Berdych, the Czech tennis player, is to become a...
Tomas Berdych, the Czech tennis player, is to become a brand ambassador for H&M, the Swedish fashion chain. Not unlike the partnership sealed last year between Novak Djokovic and Uniqlo, a Japanese fashion retailer, the deal between Berdych and H&M will reportedly include the development of a range inspired by ...
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Major running brands sign up tennis stars
New Balance, which abandoned its former anti-sponsorship philosophy a few years ago, has announced its first deal in the tennis sector. The contract is with Milos Raonic, a Canadian tennis champion born in Montenegro 22 years ago, who was previously sponsored by Lacoste.The terms of the contract between New Balance and Raonic ...
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Lotto innovates in football, expands in tennis and running
Lotto Sport Italia is readying the retail launch in mid-2013 of the Solista, a special new football boot that reflects natural and artificial light, drawing more attention to its logo on the football pitches of the world. It uses a special patented microfiber technology on an exclusive basis. Lotto officials hope ...
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Head Tennis has already begun to make a big buzz...
Head Tennis has already begun to make a big buzz out about Novak Djokovic' new Speed racquet, which will premier at the Australian Open next January. In a James-Bond-like film on Youtube, the Serbian tennis star is shown secretely testing a black prototype of the new product, but it cannot be ...
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Schildkröt, the old German brand of table tennis equipment, continues...
Schildkröt, the old German brand of table tennis equipment, continues its strategy of diversification after it already launched the Schildkröt Funsports category a few years ago. Now, the brand owner, MTS, has announced that it is launching Schildkröt Fitness, a category dedicated to smaller fitness equipment such as expanders, barbells, ...
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Tennis lifts Head
Brisk sales of tennis products have enabled Head to deliver another quarter of robust sales. After a surge of 17.1 percent in the first quarter, the Austrian company's sales jumped by 6.9 percent to €62.5 million in the second quarter. Adding up the two quarters, Head achieved a turnover of ...
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Joma will sponsor Santiago Giraldo, a Colombian tennis player, until...
Joma will sponsor Santiago Giraldo, a Colombian tennis player, until the end of 2014
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A British producer of squash racquets, Mantis, will be the...
A British producer of squash racquets, Mantis, will be the official racquet partner of the 2012 Subway World Squash Masters Championships in Birmingham
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Li-Ning has a new U.K. site dedicated to badminton, www.li-ning-badminton.com,...
Li-Ning has a new U.K. site dedicated to badminton, www.li-ning-badminton.com, to boost its already impressive growth in the country. The brand's racquets, shuttlecocks, grips, shoes, apparel and accessories are distributed in the U.K. and Ireland by Reydon Sports under the name of Li-Ning Badminton UK.
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Cornilleau, the leading table tennis company from France, is launching...
Cornilleau, the leading table tennis company from France, is launching its products in Asia with an introduction in China. On May 15, Cornilleau held an event introducing journalists to two of its product lines that featured Philippe Gatien, the Olympic medalist in table tennis in 1992 and 2000. Gatien is ...
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Novak Djokovic, the Serbian tennis star, is no longer sponsored...
Novak Djokovic, the Serbian tennis star, is no longer sponsored by Sergio Tacchini for clothing. The new sponsor is Uniqlo, the big Japanese sportswear brand, under a deal reported to be worth €6 million a year. Tadashi Yanai, chief executive of Fast Retailing, the company that owns Uniqlo, announced the ...
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Tennis Warehouse Europe will now be included as part of...
Tennis Warehouse Europe will now be included as part of ATPWorldTourStore.com through an expanded retail partnership between Tennis Warehouse and the ATP. The two entities have been working together since 2000. The expanded website means that fans in Europe can get the same service as those in the U.S., while ...
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Tennis Warehouse, which established a European subsidiary in Germany four...
Tennis Warehouse, which established a European subsidiary in Germany four years ago, has announced a three-year extension of its global online retail partnership with the ATP Tour, taking it through 2014. Tennis Warehouse, which claims to be the world's largest e-commerce platform for tennis products, is a division of Sports ...
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Enebe is launching an electronic scoreboard for table tennis, which...
Enebe is launching an electronic scoreboard for table tennis, which can be adapted to any tennis table and is being offered internationally in time for Christmas sales
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The World Squash Federation has launched a new logo...
The World Squash Federation has launched a new logo
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Erima is supporting Tess Sugnaux, a 16-year-old tennis player ranked...
Erima is supporting Tess Sugnaux, a 16-year-old tennis player ranked second among the Under 16 champions in Switzerland
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Head claims higher market share in tennis
According to Head, the global tennis market declined in the first half of 2011, but remained fairly stable in Europe.Quoting market data, Head noted that in the U.S., sales of racquets and balls fell by around 5 and 2 percent, respectively. In Japan, the natural disasters in March drove the ...
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Nick Matthew, the No. 1 squash player in the world,...
Nick Matthew, the No. 1 squash player in the world, has joined the team of Hi-Tec as a global ambassador. In the sponsorship deal, he will endorse Hi-Tec's squash footwear, wearing the S702 to play and helping the company develop his own signature shoe.
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Amer’s results get a hit in tennis and golf
The sluggishness of the golf and tennis markets badly deflated sales of the Wilson brand in the second quarter. The racquet sports unit of the Amer Sports group, which owns Wilson, saw its sales decline by 17 percent to €58.5 million for the three months, down by 12 percent in ...
