All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 30, Issue 29-30 – Page 5
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Arnold Sports has agreed to distribute Enervit, the Italian brand...
Arnold Sports has agreed to distribute Enervit, the Italian brand of sports nutrition products, in the German market
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AG Motors has inaugurated a factory for aluminum bicycle frames...
AG Motors has inaugurated a factory for aluminum bicycle frames – Europe's second such facility – in the Polish city of Podgrodzie. According to Bike Europe, this makes the 10-year-old company the first producer able to manufacture a complete aluminum frame in a single uninterrupted welding process, thanks to developments ...
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Adidas has filed an opposition to J.Crew's trademark application for...
Adidas has filed an opposition to J.Crew's trademark application for a design of five parallel stripes, to be used on apparel and on such accessories as business card cases and various kinds of bags. The Trial and Appeals Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has suspended the application ...
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Adidas Originals has cooperated with Arizona Iced Tea for a...
Adidas Originals has cooperated with Arizona Iced Tea for a limited edition of sneakers, priced at 99 cents (€0.88) per pair – the same as a can of iced tea. There were two models, the Continental 80 and the Yung 1, each available in two designs matching that of an ...
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Adidas has signed multi-year endorsement deal with the world's number-one...
Adidas has signed multi-year endorsement deal with the world's number-one alpine skier, Mikaela Shiffrin. The 24-year-old native of Colorado won 17 World Cup titles in 2018/19, the highest tally for a single season of any skier – regardless of gender – in history. Shiffrin's training goes beyond skiing to include ...
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As part of Adidas' “She Breaks Barriers” initiative, Stadium will...
As part of Adidas' “She Breaks Barriers” initiative, Stadium will be broadcasting the stories of struggle and success of a roster of star female athletes. Stadium is a 24/7 multi-platform sports network, featuring exclusive live and on-demand games and events. The special two-part broadcast, which began on Aug. 26, is ...
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Adidas, Nike and Puma have joined the Global Fashion Pact...
Adidas, Nike and Puma have joined the Global Fashion Pact to protect the world's climate, biodiversity and oceans at the instigation of Kering, the former controlling shareholder of Puma, which is committed to sustainability. The fashion pact, which gathers 32 groups – mostly from the fashion sector – representing nearly ...
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Although it already sponsors a few e-sports teams, Adidas has...
Although it already sponsors a few e-sports teams, Adidas has signed its first sponsorship deal with an individual e-sports athlete: Tyler Blevins, better known as Ninja. Blevins is a professional gamer and gaming streamer who raised eyebrows in the videogame world at the start of August by switching his streaming ...
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Symphony plans acquisitions
Another Chinese company, specializing in retailing and the operation of shopping malls, Symphony Holdings, has created a dedicated unit in the U.S., TKK Symphony Acquisition, for the purpose of financing mergers and acquisitions in the sporting goods sector or any other in any country. The company, which began trading on ...
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Altra, the running brand recently acquired by VF Corp., has...
Altra, the running brand recently acquired by VF Corp., has hired Andrew Conley as its director of global product. Conley has spent his entire career in running shoes. He was most recently with Hoka One One, helping to expand the women's line and overseeing the launch of the Carbon X ...
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According to the British newspaper The Telegraph, the Jordan Brand...
According to the British newspaper The Telegraph, the Jordan Brand is working on its first endorsement deal with a football player, Raheem Sterling of Manchester City, who is in the final year of his contract with Nike and may now have been offered as much as £100 million (€110m-$122m)
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Accell Group has sold the e-bike development brands Protanium and...
Accell Group has sold the e-bike development brands Protanium and Diavelo to a new Swiss company. Protanium GmbH, based in Zurich and headed by Karin Vogelsanger as chief executive and managing partner, has been founded for this take-over. Protanium GmbH will continue to operate the Diavelo e-bike brand. The company ...
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Günter Althaus, the 51-year-old German executive who has been the...
Günter Althaus, the 51-year-old German executive who has been the chief executive of the ANWR Group for the past ten years, has informed the board of directors that he will not renew his contract after it expires at the beginning of 2021, as he is envisaging new professional challenges. ANWR ...
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Anta’s revenues soar by 40%, boosted by Fila
Anta Sports Products kept the momentum going in the first half of 2019, with a sales increase of 40.3 percent to 14,810 million yuan renminbi (€1.9bn-$2.1bn), driven by a very strong performance from Fila, which Anta licenses in China.This led to a 27.7 percent jump in comprehensive net income attributable to ...
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Sales in the U.K. cycling market have dropped by 4.8...
Sales in the U.K. cycling market have dropped by 4.8 percent in volume in the first half of 2019 as compared to the first half of 2018. Meanwhile, value sales are only down by 0.5 percent. The figures are included in the first U.K. cycling market data service by Sports ...
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361 Degrees is charging higher prices
361 Degrees International grew at a slower pace of 7.3 percent in the first half of this year, reaching a turnover of 3,236.8 million yuan renminbi (€407.4m-$451.9m), but the attributable profit went up by 9.7 percent to RMB 367.4 million (€46.2m-$51.3m), equal to a net margin of 11.3 percent. The ...
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Li & Fung has sold a 21.7 percent stake in...
Li & Fung has sold a 21.7 percent stake in its rather sophisticated LF Logistics business to a Singapore-based investment company, Tomaskek, for $300 million to help expand its operations in Asia and improve its own capital structure. The group saw its revenues decline by 8.4 percent on an organic ...
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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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The 2019 European Textile Polyester Summit, organized by ACI Europe...
The 2019 European Textile Polyester Summit, organized by ACI Europe and sponsored by Hohenstein and Oerlikon, among others, will be in Amsterdam, on Oct. 23-24
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Sport 2000, the German buying group, has announced its sponsorship...
Sport 2000, the German buying group, has announced its sponsorship of 1. FC Köln, the well-known football club from Cologne. The deal is part of Sport 2000's partnership with 11Teamsports, which has been sponsoring the same football club since July 2019. Sport 2000 undertook a similar sponsorship of VfB Stuttgart's Mercedes-Benz ...
