All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 27, Issue 40-41 – Page 6
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Jamie Cygielman has been appointed from Jan. 3 as executive...
Jamie Cygielman has been appointed from Jan. 3 as executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Iconix Brand Group, the U.S. company that has rights to brands from Umbro to Danskin, Starter, Pony and Ocean Pacific. She joins after marketing and business development functions at companies such as The ...
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Adidas put up for sale a limited number of 3D-printed...
Adidas put up for sale a limited number of 3D-printed running shoes on Dec. 15 in London, New York and Tokyo
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Puma has signed up Marc Bartra, a 25-year-old Spanish football...
Puma has signed up Marc Bartra, a 25-year-old Spanish football player who moved from FC Barcelona to the German Borussia Dortmund team in the summer. Joining another player sponsored by the brand in the team, Marco Reus, he will also act as ambassador for Puma's evoPower boots from next spring.
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Ecco Golf has enrolled Smylie Kaufman, a 25-year-old American PGA...
Ecco Golf has enrolled Smylie Kaufman, a 25-year-old American PGA pro golfer, as a brand ambassador
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The 2017 Ispo Brandnew winners
An international jury, mostly made up of former winners of the Ispo Brandnew Awards, has picked the eight start-ups who have won the competition this time in eight categories and 42 finalists among nearly 400 submissions. All the winners will be allowed to show their products in Hall B5 at ...
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Starting in 2017, Orica-Bike Exchange and its female counterpart, Orica-AIS,...
Starting in 2017, Orica-Bike Exchange and its female counterpart, Orica-AIS, will be called Orica-Scott, following the signing of Scott Sports as new co-naming rights sponsor of the two Australian cycling teams. Scott has been their sponsor since 2012, when they started competing under the GreenEdge name.
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Patagonia expands its Fair Trade program for autumn 2016
Patagonia has scaled up its Fair Trade program, in partnership with Fair Trade USA, from one factory and 11 styles in autumn 2014 to six factories and 218 styles in autumn 2016. By autumn 2017, the California-based outdoor brand expects to boost further production of fair trade garments from 218 ...
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Dakine has named John John Florence, the 2016 World League...
Dakine has named John John Florence, the 2016 World League men's surfing champion, to its surf team, with plans to put out a line of products named after him in March
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The new “Vibram Paris Academy” opened its doors at 20,...
The new “Vibram Paris Academy” opened its doors at 20, rue des Petits-Champs in Paris on Dec. 6. The 50-square-meter shop is Vibram's first in France, while it is the third in the world, after the Vibram “academies” in Athens and London. This store concept combines a selling area with ...
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K2 has reportedly appointed Arnold Sports to distribute a new...
K2 has reportedly appointed Arnold Sports to distribute a new apparel range in Germany, Austria and the Benelux countries
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World Snow Day is scheduled for Jan. 15, 2017. More...
World Snow Day is scheduled for Jan. 15, 2017. More than 586,000 children aged four to 14 participated in the 2016 series of 625 events in 42 countries around the world. The final report from the last World Snow Day predicted that 93 percent of them will want to participate ...
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Pre-registration opened on Dec. 15 for the 15th edition of...
Pre-registration opened on Dec. 15 for the 15th edition of the UTMB races around the Mont-Blanc, which will run from Aug. 28 to Sept. 3, and it will close on Jan. 4
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Millet opened on Dec. 9 a single-brand store of 120...
Millet opened on Dec. 9 a single-brand store of 120 square meters in the French ski resort of Val d'Isère, in partnership with a well-known local retailer, Mick Killy, who is the brother of a former French ski champion, Jean-Claude Killy
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Sport England has announced it will invest £88 million (€104.2m-$108.7m)...
Sport England has announced it will invest £88 million (€104.2m-$108.7m) of funding coming from the National Lottery and the government in grassroots sports across 26 national governing bodies of sport. Cycling is supposed to get more than £17 million (€20.1m-$21.0m), the highest amount. Other recipients include hockey with £9 million ...
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Decathlon is preparing to deploy urban stores of about 1,000...
Decathlon is preparing to deploy urban stores of about 1,000 square meters in France as part of a plan to expand in medium-sized cities, it was reported in Les Echos earlier this month. The French retailer will start by converting 25 existing Decathlon Easy into Decathlon Essential stores, and then ...