All about events in the sporting goods industry – Page 11
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RiminiWellness opens ticket sales for live event
The organizers of RiminiWellness have announced that online ticket sales are officially open for the 15th edition of the show, which is scheduled to take place as a physical event on Sept. 24-26 at Rimini Expo Center in Rimini, on Italy’s Adriatic coast. RiminiWellness is the Italian Exhibition Group’s (IEG) ...
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2022 Skyrunning World Championships to be held in Italy
The seventh edition of the biennial Skyrunning World Championships will be held in Italy on Sept. 9-11, 2022. The host venue will be Ossola, in Italy’s Piedmont, a region situated to the north of Lago Maggiore, close to the Swiss border. The area, set in an amphitheater surrounded by snow-covered ...
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OutDoor by ISPO 2021: More conference, less exhibition
The upcoming OutDoor by ISPO, dubbed the “Global Summit Edition” and scheduled to be held in Munich on Oct. 5-7, 2021, will focus more on the conference component in combination with the European Outdoor Summit and offer a scaled-down exhibition space with pre-built booths for a maximum of 80 to ...
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Expo Riva Schuh closes with 406 exhibitors and 2,700 visitors
The 95th edition of Expo Riva Schuh and the 6th edition of Gardabags attracted over 2,700 visitors from 79 different countries, confirming their international reach despite the travel limitations caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Buyers came from Europe - especially Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, France and the Netherlands - as ...
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ArticleISPO Munich to open up to consumers and tourism
For the next edition of ISPO Munich, scheduled to take place on Jan. 23-26, 2022, the ISPO Group is planning to reserve a dedicated B2C hall for consumers at Messe München’s fairgrounds. They would be invited to try out new sports and new products. They would also be introduced to ...
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News briefsISPO launches a new network, the Collaborators Club
As a derivative of the ISPO Open Innovation platform for community activation, the ISPO Group has now launched the ISPO Collaborators Club as a new network for both industry members and consumers. As a member, you can keep your finger on the pulse of the consumer and thus improve your ...
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The Sportsdays trade show in Zurich went well
A total of 70 companies representing more than 240 brands took part in the sportsdays.ch by ISPO Munich in Zurich on June 21 and 22, addressing Swiss buyers with a preview of spring/summer 2022 collections. The new format of the national Swiss trade show, which replaces the former Inspirationstage, is ...
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The Scottish Golf Show is being re-branded as it goes national
The Scottish Golf Show, which is regarded as Europe’s largest consumer-oriented golf exhibition, is being re-branded as part of a new growth strategy, resulting in two national events scheduled to take place early in 2022. They will be named “bunkered Live.” The first one will be held at the NEC ...
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ArticleEurobike will move from Friedrichshafen to Frankfurt in 2022
A new and more central location, new dates, new concept – only one thing remains: the organizing team of people involved in the project. To strengthen its market position and further develop its flagship trade shows in the areas of Urban Mobility and General Aviation, Messe Friedrichshafen, organizer of the ...
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The Beijing 2022 Olympics want to engage 300 million Chinese in winter sports
The Beijing Organising Committee of the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has integrated the goal of positioning China as a new winter sports destination for local and overseas visitors throughout the planning process for the Games. It has just released a 108-page “Legacy Report of Olympic and Paralympic Winter ...
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Pitti Studios: a new creative service for exhibitors
Pitti Immagine, the organizer of various fashion-related trade shows in Florence, is adding a new service, Pitti Studios, providing a new communication platform for exhibitors. They can have their new product releases photographed or filmed by the Pitti team. The customized images and film recordings can be integrated into a ...
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Spain's Festibike cancelled for a second year
In 2021, for the second year in a row, there will be no Festibike. The annual Spanish consumer-oriented cycling-industry festival – organized by a Portuguese events company called Lastlap – was scheduled for Sept. 10-12 in Las Rozas. Also canceled are the accompanying MTB Marathon and FBK Cyclocross, which were ...
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New British Cycling Show in June 2022
Raccoon Events, the U.K.-based company behind events such as the National Running Show, the National Snow Show or the National Outdoor Expo, announced today that it is adding another consumer event to its portfolio: The National Cycling Show, scheduled for June 18-19, 2022, at the NEC in ...
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Women’s Golf Day 2021 exceeds previous records
Women’s Golf Day (WGD) 2021 saw the total number of participating venues reach 941, exceeding previous records. The sixth edition of WGD took place in more than 80 countries around the world on June 1st. New Zealand, Japan and Argentina joined the WGD Community for the first time this year. ...
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Arc’teryx will hold its Alpine Academy on-site and digitally from July 1
Arc’teryx’ Alpine Academy will return to Chamonix for the tenth time on July 1-4, accompanied by a full digital program. For those who can make it to the French alpine village, the downtown area will host movie screenings, DJ sets, product demos and more. An Arc’teryx brand experience area will ...
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News briefsKeller Sports starts Brand City Clash, gets innovation award
Keller Sports, the fast-growing German online retailer for premium sports products and services, is organizing a special multi-sport challenge, the “Brand City Clash by Keller,” in five German cities - Würzburg, Dresden, Münster, Freiburg and Munich - with the help of five brands for the first time this summer. In ...
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China Sport Show places fitness at center stage
This year’s China Sport Show, scheduled to take place at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai on May 19-22, will have fitness equipment as its “main character.” The products for this segment will occupy more than 80,000 square meters out of a total exhibition area of 150,000 square ...
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Women’s Tour de France to return in 2022
Christian Prudhomme, manager of the Tour de France, has confirmed in an interview with the Guardian that there will be a women’s bicycle race in 2022 and that it will be held closely after the three-week men’s Tour. Further details on the race will be presented in October, which is ...
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ArticleMarkus Hefter leaves ISPO
After working for Messe München for 18 years, Markus Hefter has left the company, where he held the position of exhibition director for the ISPO Munich and OutDoor by ISPO trade shows, apparently to pursue a new opportunity with a yet unnamed Swedish company later in September. We understand that ...
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Buying groups partner with Nike and Brooks on charity runs
To help support sports clubs in Germany that are under pressure as a result of the Covid-19 restrictions and following withdrawals, Nike and Intersport are joining ranks for the launch of the new Nike Pegasus 38 running shoe with a “Keep Clubs Running” charity campaign, in which donations of up ...
