Trade fairs & Conferences – Page 3
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ArticleEmerald returns to Salt Lake with Outdoor Retailer
Outdoor Retailer is returning to Salt Lake City, Utah. The last show in Denver will be OR Summer from June 9-11, 2022. After the June event and five years in Colorado, the next Winter Show will be the first OR event in its new, old home. OR was based in ...
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ArticleIndustry Spotlight: Focus on new target groups, supply chain challenges and retail relationships
25 brands presented their new products at the Sport & Outdoor Media Day in Munich. The event organized by Mandel PR in the ”Kohlebunker” near the MOC (Munich Order Center) was one of the first major industry gatherings in Germany since the start of the Covid crisis. We took the ...
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ArticleHaushofer is named ISPO project director, reporting to Gröber
The Covid pandemic has been responsible for the fact that we have not been able to meet in person at any ISPO trade show for almost two years, and the situation has been particularly challenging for the trade show organizers. In the wake of the many cancellations and digital substitutes, ...
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ArticleThe first winners of the 2022 ISPO Awards
The ISPO Group has announced the first winners of its revamped ISPO Awards. The modernized version of the award show, which – in its previous form – has been part of ISPO since 2011, will now be presented throughout the entire year and judged by a jury comprising members of ...
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ArticleThe OR Snow Show will take place, but without some key players
After some hesitations and discussions on the subject, the Outdoor Retailer Snow Show will be taking place as planned as an in-person event on Jan. 26-28, 2022 in Denver, Colorado. Its organizers have unveiled an accompanying education program and a redesigned floor plan centered around the “Resource Center,” a new ...
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ArticleCancelled functional fabrics show in Munich goes virtual again
The physical edition of Performance Days – initially planned for Dec. 1 and 2 – had to be cancelled at short notice due to the current sharp rise in Covid infections in Munich. Like already in May, the winter edition of the show will be moved entirely into the digital ...
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ArticleISPO Munich is moved to November
After discussions with hundreds of exhibitors and retailers, Messe München decided to cancel next January’s edition of the ISPO Munich show and to set new dates for that fair and OutDoor by ISPO, making them coincide with the beginning of the ordering cycle for the two main seasons. It described ...
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ArticleTobias Gröber comments on the new schedule for the ISPO shows in Munich
The ISPO Group announced this afternoon that ISPO Munich 2022, originally scheduled for the end of January, will be postponed to Nov. 28-30, 2022. At the same time, it announced that the date of OutDoor by ISPO 2022 has also been moved to mid-June, thus establishing a completely new schedule for all future ISPO trade shows. SGI Europe and The Outdoor Industry Compass spoke with Tobias Gröber, executive director of the consumer goods business unit at Messe München, about the background to this decision.
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ArticleSupply chain disruptions move Austria’s ÖSFA fair and others forward
Ordering cycles throughout the supply chain are being pushed forward by between three and five months, depending on the products. The current supply chain challenges are creating real or potential product shortages that are leading vendors to place earlier and bigger orders with the factories to secure sufficient supplies for ...
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ArticleA bullish European surf industry honors Frederic Basse
Surfboards, wetsuits and other hardware items in the surf sector have recorded growth rates of between 20 and 40 percent during the current post-Covid year, according to the European Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (EuroSIMA). Speaking at the annual EuroSIMA Surf Summit in Hossegor, on the French Basque coast, Jean-Louis Rodrigues, ...
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ArticleUEFA proposes an Intercontinental Nations League
FIFA and UEFA are both trying to expand the range of football mega-events that they are offering to the public. After the failure of its Super League project in April, the European organization is reacting to FIFA’s new plans to double the frequency of its World Cup by signing a ...
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ArticleNew revised ISPO Awards with four application deadlines per year
The ISPO Group has announced that it will now honor the highlights of the sporting goods industry four times a year with its conceptually revised ISPO Awards. As usual, a jury of experts will evaluate all submissions individually based on criteria such as design, function, sustainability and innovation – but ...
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ArticleNew mobility show in Munich sends good signals for ISPO and other fairs
Messe München, the organizer of the ISPO fairs, says that the success of IAA Mobility, the first international in-person event of the kind in 18 months, proves that major international trade fairs can again be held in Germany like in the past. The show, where the bike sector was relatively ...
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ArticleMore details on consumer integration at ISPO Munich
After providing some initial information about ISPO Munich’s new concept in passing during a webinar in July – including plans to partially open the show to consumers – Messe München finally gave more details about the event, set for Jan. 23-26, 2022, in an official press release. The new ...
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ArticleFIBO postponed to April 2022
After the Covid-related rescheduling of the international fitness trade show FIBO from June to November, the team of organizer Reed Exhibitions (RX) has decided to postpone the show again and move it to spring, the original FIBO season. Consequently, it will be held again on a rotational basis in 2022, ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
