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    LimeLight partners with Carbon Char Store to achieve carbon-neutral events

    2022-08-05T14:33:00Z

    LimeLight Sports Group (LSG), the U.K.-based producer of multisport and running events, has teamed up with carbon removals platform Carbon Char Store in what is described as “an industry-first collaboration.” The event organizer is committing to all LSG Club-owned events being carbon neutral by 2023. The innovative collaboration aims to ...

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    Alison Brittain to become Premier League’s first female chair

    2022-08-02T05:44:00Z

    England’s Premier League has announced that Alison Brittain will become its new chair after clubs voted unanimously in favor of her appointment. She will replace interim chair Peter McCormick in early 2023, becoming the first female chair in the history of the world’s biggest domestic football competition. Brittain currently serves ...

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    Adidas U.K.’s finance director leaves after more than 25 years

    2022-07-05T08:45:00Z

    Business Live reports that Andrew Hackett, finance director at Adidas U.K. since April 2006, has left his position at the company. Hackett joined the Stockport-based division company in 1997 from KPMG in Manchester and has since served in various finance roles. The announcement about his departure comes after the company ...

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    U.K. rail strike deserts rail stations and heavily impacts retail companies

    2022-06-22T10:42:00Z

    With their biggest strike for 30 years rolling over the U.K., British rail unions have brought 17.7 percent fewer shoppers to the greater London area, and 27 percent less to the city center compared to last week. Compared with the 2019 pre-Covid numbers, footfall was down 19.3 percent across U.K. ...

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    JD Sports, Elite and Rangers fixed prices of replica shirts, says U.K. CMA

    2022-06-07T13:19:00Z

    JD Sports, Elite Sports and Glasgow’s Rangers Football Club have been found guilty of fixing prices on replica clothing products at the expense of fans, the U.K. competition watchdog said in a provisional finding. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which has been investigating since December 2020, said Elite and ...

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    Samurai strengthens European business, partners with logistics specialist Bleckmann

    2022-06-03T08:26:00Z

    British sportswear brand Samurai has chosen Dutch logistics company Bleckmann as its partner for freight forwarding and cross-docking in Europe. Since an investment by Primosole Holdings in May 2021, Samurai has been on a journey to transform its business model from focusing exclusively on premium teamwear in the rugby and ...

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    UK e-tail slows down post-pandemic

    2022-05-11T12:31:00Z

    According to the most recent IMRG Capgemini Online Retail Index, the post-pandemic retail climate is, at last, taking shape. Online sales for the 200-odd retailers tracked by the index are down by 12 percent year-on-year for April. As IMRG puts it, this is a significant improvement from March’s year-on-year fall ...

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    British Advertising Standards Authority bans Adidas advertising for nudity

    2022-05-11T12:28:00Z

    After 24 complaints have reached the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the institution has banned an Adidas advertising for the company’s sports bras range from showing in the U.K. The ad that showed uncensored images of women’s bare breasts – to underline the variety in shapes and sizes of breasts and ...

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    Blenders Eyewear expands e-commerce to U.K. and Ireland

    2021-07-28T09:53:00Z

    Blenders Eyewear, a fast-growing Californian lifestyle, surf and ski sunglasses brand in which Italy’s Safilo Group acquired a 70-percent stake in 2019, takes a further step in its growth and development projects to fuel international expansion outside the U.S. Following the go-live of the brand’s e-commerce platform in Canada and ...

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    Britain’s DW Sports will close all its stores

    2020-08-04T12:48:00Z

    DW Sports, a big operator of gyms and sporting goods stores across the UK, has entered into administration, a British form of insolvency. All its shops and some of the gyms are set to be closed down, putting 1,700 jobs at risk, but DW plans to work with its joint ...