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News briefsPaddletek buys pickleball paddle maker PIKKL
PIKKL joins a portfolio spanning Bantam, Tempest and Honeyfoam, as Paddletek also signs three unrelated pro Johnsons.
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ArticleAnta brand growth stalls as CEO exits
Anta brand’s Q2 growth trails group peers, reinforcing the case behind Xu Yang’s exit
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ArticleJoma to sponsor Fetri’s Hyatlón, federation cousin to Hyrox
Puma’s exclusive Hyrox lock is pushing rival sponsors toward federations building their own version of the sport.
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News briefsOnitsuka Tiger’s Tokyo flagship fuses Japan and Italy
Marble from Siena, black terrazzo, a facade in Tiger-Yellow: the brand’s biggest store reads like a Milan-Tokyo design dialogue.
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News briefsAnta brand CEO Xu Yang resigns
Anta Sports Products confirms Xu Yang has resigned as CEO of its namesake brand; Lai Shixian named interim CEO.
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ArticleFoot Locker’s US walls get a new brand: Salomon
The retailer trimmed its footwear wall by 30% this year. Now it plans to grow it again, selectively.
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ArticleMAP Active Buys Sports Direct Malaysia
With the rupiah under pressure and domestic retail sluggish, MAP Active’s Malaysia buy reads as earnings diversification.
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ArticleNo forecast for FY27: Frasers continues its acquisition spree
The British retail and investment group is reshaping its business as retail profit rises 22 percent.
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ArticleNike and PSG to renew deal early, report says
Nike is reportedly paying more for the one line it just called underperforming.
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ArticleNike’s refund check has arrived. The growth story hasn’t.
Nike has recovered nearly all of its $986 million tariff refund, but the cash windfall does little to answer lingering questions about growth, China and the progress of its turnaround.