All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 30, Issue 25-26 – Page 5
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Mark King, a former president of Adidas North America who...
Mark King, a former president of Adidas North America who is now 60 years old, has been made chief executive of Taco Bell, one of the American fast-food chains owned by Yum! Brands
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Adidas is going to replace Nike as the sponsor of...
Adidas is going to replace Nike as the sponsor of the Boca Juniors football club in Argentina, reportedly paying $100 million over the next ten years. It will also pay additional bonuses for victories and royalties on the sale of jerseys. Adidas is also the sponsor of a rival Argentinian ...
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The new face of Adidas x Stella McCartney for its...
The new face of Adidas x Stella McCartney for its autumn/winter 2019 collection is Grimes, the 31-year-old Canadian singer and environmental activist. The artist previously collaborated with McCartney in 2016, when she joined Madonna's daughter and Amanda Stenberg in a video to promote McCartney's Pop perfume.
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Adidas and Under Armour have been recognized at the fifth...
Adidas and Under Armour have been recognized at the fifth annual ESPN Sports Humanitarian Awards. Adidas won the first Sports Sustainability Leadership Award while UA won the Corporate Community Impact Award. The awards were handed out at The Novo, an indoor club located at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, ...
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Adidas and Nike are in the top five of the...
Adidas and Nike are in the top five of the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI)'s leaderboard for 2018, at the fourth and fifth place, respectively. The BCI is the Geneva-based body that campaigns for increased production and consumption of “more sustainable cotton.” Fifteen companies featured on its 2018 leaderboard, a table ...
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Adidas has come up with a new video ad, titled...
Adidas has come up with a new video ad, titled “The Deal,” for its FW19 football boot pack. In the video, Paul Pogba, Leo Messi, Mesut Ozil and 18 other players speak in close-up directly into the camera and lay out the terms of the deal – the way in which ...
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Acushnet’s acquisition of Kjus makes sense
The sports equipment market had a pretty good year in 2018, particularly in the golf and winter sports sectors, as indicated in the previous article, but many companies involved in these two segments – such as Amer Sports, Callaway Golf and Rossignol – have lately sought some sort of diversification ...
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Accell sells Canadian brand rights
However, the group's performance in North America failed to show improvement in the course of the quarter, as U.S. bike sales, which are now considered non-core, declined by 15.9 percent to €31.8 million, leading to a higher operating loss of €11.3 million in this segment.The management said it expects to ...
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Intersport International accelerates
Intersport International Corp. reports a currency-adjusted 2.3 percent increase in its global retail turnover to the equivalent of 5.5 billion Swiss francs (€5.0bn-$5.5bn) after VAT in the first half of this year, including a 3.1 percent sales increase in the second quarter. As previously reported, the group's biggest franchisee, Intersport Deutschland, ...
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Accell accelerates with e-bikes, pulls out of Canada
Surging sales of electric bicycles in Europe boosted revenues for the Dutch company behind Haibike, Lapierre, Batavus, Raleigh and many other bike brands. Its turnover picked up pace in the second half of 2019, soaring by 7.4 percent to €682.6 million.The company's so-called core businesses, which exclude its North American ...
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Intersport reports that it has completed about three million transactions,...
Intersport reports that it has completed about three million transactions, with a total value of €20 million, since the introduction of its digital voucher system in Germany in 2016. The uniform digital voucher system was introduced together with Epay, a full-service provider for vouchers and prepaid solutions as well as ...
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Richard Engelhorn has passed away at the age of 80...
Richard Engelhorn has passed away at the age of 80 after a long illness. For more than 50 years, the German retail executive had been a representative of the third generation of the company that was founded in 1890 by his grandfather, Georg Engelhorn, and Adam Sturn. It was not ...
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Archroma is introducing Lurapret N5396 & N5392 liq, a new...
Archroma is introducing Lurapret N5396 & N5392 liq, a new water-based VOC polyurethane (PU) polymer coating. The innovation was presented at the recent ITMA exhibition in Barcelona. With the growing demand for more sustainable technologies, the coatings that are used in the textile industry to achieve features such as waterproofness, ...
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Some 53 brands will be present for the Feria del...
Some 53 brands will be present for the Feria del Deporte (Sports Show) de Galicia, to be held on Aug. 5-6 at the Puerta del Camino de Santiago hotel in the Spanish town of Coruña
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For its 50th anniversary, Micam will feature a new space,...
For its 50th anniversary, Micam will feature a new space, called the Players District, dedicated to sports and outdoor shoes. The next edition of the Milan trade show, which will take place on Sept. 15-18, will therefore host brands such as Skechers, Dolomite and Joma Sport in Hall 7. The ...
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21run, the German-based online store specializing in running, has been...
21run, the German-based online store specializing in running, has been acquired by All4Sports, the Dutch online retailer that owns various online stores, including the All4Running online store. 21sportsgroup, a major German online retailer with European ambitions, said in January that it will phase out one of its online stores, 21run, ...
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Vans has signed on as presenting sponsor for the 2019...
Vans has signed on as presenting sponsor for the 2019 International Surfing Association (ISA) World Surfing Games (WSG) in Miyazaki, Japan, which will take place on Sept. 7-15. Alongside sporting competitions, the WSG will feature during the opening weekend a two-day Surf Festival, showcasing Japan's surfing culture and lifestyle. The ...
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HeiQ has been awarded the 2019 Swiss Environmental Award for...
HeiQ has been awarded the 2019 Swiss Environmental Award for its Clean Tech dyeing process. The technology is said to reduce a textile mill's water consumption by 30 percent and to allow for 30 to 50 percent faster dyeing time for polyester fabrics, which represent around half of the world's ...
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AnalysisAnalysis: The sports equipment market 2018
After posting modest improvements of 1.4 percent in 2016 and 0.2 percent in 2017, the global branded sports equipment market booked a stronger 3.0 percent increase in dollars in 2018 at the wholesale level, building up to a total of $80.0 billion, according to a survey of the major vendors ...
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Fila and Weekday have launched a 20-piece collaborative collection for...
Fila and Weekday have launched a 20-piece collaborative collection for spring/summer 2019, inspired by the 1990s rave culture
