All Team sports articles – Page 13
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News briefsNolt and Etoile Noire de Strasbourg launch eco-friendly hockey kit
French equipment maker Nolt is joining forces with ice hockey club Etoile Noire de Strasbourg during the 2023/24 season to introduce a new eco-friendly ice hockey kit entirely made from recycled polyester. Each jersey is made from 15 recycled plastic bottles. Nolt stands for “Nothing is lost.” Nolt was founded ...
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News briefsFrench start-up launches recycled, repairable rugby ball
After launching an eco-friendly football last year, French start-up Vista has introduced its first recycled and repairable rugby ball. Using recovered seat coverings from cars and planes, the percentage of plastic in Vista’s balls is reduced by 50 percent, claims the company. The fact that the balls can be repaired ...
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News briefsFútbol Emotion branches out
A specialty retailer until now, Fútbol Emotion is branching out into a new sport – indeed, new sports. As we’ve learned through Diffusion Sport, CEO and co-owner Carlos Sánchez has detailed the plan to infoRetail. “We’d like to take our know-how in football and export it to other sports, and ...
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News briefsFootball thrives in Spain
Though it has long been the country’s “king sport,” football continues to expand in Spain. Citing figures put together by the market-analysis firm Circana (now part of NPD Sports Tracking Europe), Diffusion Sport relates year-on-year double-digit rises in both sales and units moved for football apparel and shoes for the ...
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ArticleLA28 proposes five additional sports for the 2028 Olympics
The 2028 Olympic Games Organizing Committee has proposed five sports for the Los Angeles Games, LA28, subject to approval by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). They are baseball-softball, cricket, flag football (a limited-contact version of American football), lacrosse and squash. The LA28 proposal now goes to the IOC Olympic Program ...
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ArticlePentland Brands restructures product and marketing management
Pentland Brands announced that within its product & marketing management, Simon Breckon has been named Senior Vice President for Speedo, Jack Richardson Senior Vice President for Ellesse, Kickers and Mitre, and Luke Doddrell Senior Vice President for Canterbury. Source: Pentland Brands Simon Breckon, Jack Richardson and Mitre, and ...
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News briefsDecathlon and NBA announce extended merchandise partnership
Decathlon and the National Basketball Association (NBA) have announced a multiyear expansion to their existing merchandising partnership, encompassing a more comprehensive offering of officially licensed NBA products in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. Decathlon was named official NBA licensee in January 2021. The sporting goods retailer ...
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ArticlePuma ambassadors celebrate 75 years of sports history
Puma and some of its world-class ambassadors gathered at the company’s headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany, to share some of their most memorable moments in sports history over the past 75 years and celebrate the company’s anniversary. “I think along all these 75 years, one thing which has not changed at ...
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ArticleSigna Sports to delist from NYSE, new CEO in Q1/2024
After assuming in June that the worst of the market disruptions were over, Signa Sports United N.V. (SSU), the Berlin-based sports e-commerce specialist, has now announced an acceleration of its strategic realignment and performance improvement program. Ahead of putting its Q3 numbers on the table, the company is talking ...
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News briefsAston Villa might terminate its partnership with Castore
Aston Villa is looking into options to cut its partnership with kit supplier Castore short, according to reports by The Telegraph, after players complained about the sportswear brand’s jerseys retaining sweat and affecting performance. Aston Villa and Castore debuted their partnership in the 2022/23 season when Castore succeeded Kappa as ...
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News briefsLe Coq Sportif sees sales momentum, earnings recovery in H2
Le Coq Sportif said it is seeing sales momentum and expects to see earnings recover in the second half of the year after its top line disappointed, and losses widened in the first half. The brand reported sales of €63.2 million in the first six months of 2023, down by ...
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News briefsSkechers football boots now available
Source: Skechers Skechers SKX_01 In recent weeks, fans around the world have watched Harry Kane on the pitch, scoring multiple goals for his new club Bayern Munich while wearing Skechers football boots. Now Skechers has launched the boots, for which Kane is an ambassador, in stores in ...
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News briefsAdidas presents fashion-forward LFSTLR collection
Source: Adidas Supporting the growing Blokecore fashion trend, Adidas has unveiled its new LFSTLR jersey collection featuring the third jerseys of the 23/24 season from some of its leading clubs, reinterpreted as fashion-forward lifestyle streetwear. LFSTLR, the “most wearable soccer jersey,” blurs the lines between soccer performance ...
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News briefsReebok partners with American football star Justin Fields
Source: Reebok Justin Fields Reebok and 24-year-old Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields have announced a long-term partnership. With this move, Reebok aims to reclaim its position in team sports for the long term. Part of that strategy will include expanding its athlete roster, increasing its presence in ...
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News briefsCatalonian chain expands
Wala has opened a seventh store, according to both TradeSport and CMDsport. It is a 2,200-sqm operation with a staff of 40 located in Sant Pere de Ribes, Catalonia. The retail chain does all of its business in this one Spanish autonomous community and covers mountain and snow sports, cycling, ...
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News briefsNFL keeps looking across the pond
America’s professional league for American football, the NFL, announced back in May that it would be shifting five games in the regular season to Europe for its International Series of 2023. These will be taking place in October and November, with three games in London and two in Germany. The ...
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ArticleNew trio at Schanner’s helm
German company Schanner Eishockeyartikel GmbH + Co KG has expanded its management to three members on May 1, 2023. The long-standing employees Jan Otto and Mathias Angele have since been managing the company for hockey, ice skating and fun sport equipment together with CEO and sole shareholder Marc Meier. Schanner ...
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News briefsNew Era Cap reportedly preparing for IPO
According to a Reuters report based on trusted sources who wish to remain anonymous, Buffalo, New York-based New Era Cap, best known for its official licensing partnerships with MLB and the NFL, has begun preparations for an initial public offering in New York that could be valued at $4 billion ...
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News briefsManchester United will reportedly be taken off the market
The Daily Mail has revealed that the Glazers are going to take Manchester United off the market after failing to get close to their anticipated asking price. The newspaper cites “a source with long-standing close ties to the American family.” Reports in February suggested that a Qatar-based consortium of private ...
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ArticleISPO Munich 2023 offers New Perspectives on Sports
Only three months before the leading sporting goods trade show, ISPO Munich opens its doors again at the Messe München exhibition center. The show, which will take place from Nov. 28-30, 2023, will be thematically divided into the following areas: Outdoor (Halls A1-A3): From large booths to merged villages, ...
