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New “Made” brand launches individually designed outerwear
Indiegogo, the international crowdfunding platform specializing in tech and innovative products, has announced the launch on its website of new brand of outerwear, called Made, that can be designed by the customer and tailored on each wearer. The project will start with a hard-shell ski and snowboard jacket. The Made ...
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Zwift appoints two new high-profile board members
Zwift, the global virtual cycling and running training platform, has confirmed the appointment of Patrick Pichette and Celeste Burgoyne to its board of directors. The appointments follow a recent Series C funding round for the fast-growing U.S. company. Pichette comes to Zwift with more than 30 years of financial and ...
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GoPro sees major upsides with subscriptions
GoPro told a conference organized by JMP Securities that it expects its revenues to improve by 20 to 25 percent this year, even if there is no broad economic recovery and no increase in travel, thanks in part to the development of its direct-to-consumer operations. As previously reported, GoPro suffered ...
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ArticleIntersport’s European online platform progresses
While admitting that it has been “a painful and costly learning curve,” Intersport International Corp. (IIC) has made “tremendous progress” in developing a common internet platform for some of its national organizations in Europe during the last three years, claimed Steve Evers, IIC’s CEO, in a recent interview. He declined ...
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New technology automatically adjusts iFit workouts to the heart rate
Icon Health and Fitness has announced that iFit, the patented connected fitness platform that powers its NordicTrack, ProForm and Freemotion equipment, is about to release the iFit Active Pulse, a new patent-pending technology that allows a member’s heart rate to automatically tailor the treadmill’s speed and incline. The new technology ...
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Spanish buying groups seek stronger corporate identities
Base Detall Sport, one of the major Spanish buying groups in the sporting goods sectors, is asking that all of the 298 stores run by its 82 retail members should carry one of its banners – Base, Base Selection or Wanna Sneakers – by the end of 2021 or early ...
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Emerald buys PlumRiver for more digital engagement
The trade show industry is seeking new ways to generate revenues and engage its clients because of the damage made to its physical events. Just as the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market is starting its new online edition, scheduled to run from Jan. 6 through March 19, its parent company, Emerald ...
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ArticleIndustry Insights: How to find new B2B business in a digitalized market
- a contribution by Martin Kössler, CEO of Huginbiz® (*) - The past spring created for most of us a feeling of pandemic panic and business paralysis. Offices were shut down and most employees were asked to work from home. From a pure productivity perspective, it gave ...
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EU grants conditional approval for Google’s acquisition of Fitbit
The anti-trust division of the European Commission has approved the $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit by Alphabet, the parent company of Google, based on various commitments, including a pledge not to use the fitness wearables company’s health and wellness data for targeted search or display advertising for ten years. The ...
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Fesi welcomes the EU’s new Digital Services Act, but wants more
The European Commission has adopted its long-awaited Digital Services Act (DSA), indicating that it is intended to “create a safer digital space in which the fundamental rights of all users of digital services are protected.” The European Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) said it welcomes the move, but ...
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Ispo Brandnew announces its top 10
Ispo Brandnew, purportedly the world’s largest start-up competition for the sporting goods industry, will as usual form part of the next – entirely virtual – Ispo Munich trade show, scheduled for Feb. 1-5. Some 30 young companies – 10 winners and 20 “selected brands” – will introduce themselves, in their ...
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Stöckli wants to facilitate ski rentals in Switzerland
Stöckli Swiss Sports will equip its retailer partners in Switzerland with a rental system software developed by an Austrian company, Axess. The Swiss producer claims that this will enable ski rental stores to provide faster service, especially in times of Covid-19, but also there after. As a first step, Axess ...
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Higher prices boost Fitbit’s sales and margins
Fitbit reported revenues for the third quarter that rose by 5 percent from the year-ago quarter to $363.9 million, driven by higher average selling prices. The net loss grew slightly to $54.5 million on a GAAP accounting basis, but it declined sharply on a non-GAAP basis to $8.3 million from ...
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Speedo will get a new global brand director who is now in charge of Berghaus
Pentland Brands will be shifting Kev McFadyen from brand director of Berghaus to global brand director of Speedo in January. McFadyen, who assumed his Berghaus post when he was hired by Pentland in 2018, will remain on the brand’s advisory board, alongside Sir Chris Bonington and Leo Houlding. Nadine ...
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Whoop is valued at $1.2 million in financing round
Here is another young connected fitness company that is commanding a high valuation. Whoop, an “athletic performance maintenance company” headquartered in Boston that provides memberships for 24/7 coaching to improve health and the free Whoop hardware that goes with it, has closed a $100 million Series E Financing round at ...
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Amazon starts ups in Sweden, with some glitches
Amazon’s dedicated platform for the Swedish market, Amazon.se is now live, but observers pointed to some embarassing bugs including translation mistakes, which resulted in some offensive or embarassing words used in product descriptions (e.g. valdakt instread of rapt for a plant), and picking the Argentinian flag instead of Sweden’s. Many ...
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Havaianas takes its whole operations digital
Havaianas has become the first company in the footwear sector to license the digital showroom software of a Dutch firm called Hatch, whose product stems from developments at PVH Corp. in 2014. The developer calls it a “fully digital-guided wholesale selling experience.” It has enabled Havaianas to do away with ...
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WTO report examines IP in light of Covid
The Covid-19 pandemic has led national and regional intellectual property (IP) offices to expedite certain procedures relating to the use of patented devices and copyrighted materials. The Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has published a paper sketching the background of its fundamental IP deal – the WTO Agreement ...
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ArticleUnder Armour is centralizing and digitalizing its European operations
Under Armour has decided against reopening its physical sales offices in Paris, Munich, Manchester and Barcelona, preferring instead to coordinate in-person and remote selling functions in the respective markets from a new, “futuristic” Digital Hub at its European headquarters in Amsterdam. The regional offices had been temporarily closed in the ...
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News briefsYouTube is testing shopping features
According to a Bloomberg report, Google is testing the idea of turning YouTube into an e-commerce platform that would allow the purchase of items featured in videos. YouTube has been testing e-commerce features for a while. Late last year, it began testing Shopify software that enables creators to list as ...
