All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 31, Issue 25+26 – Page 3
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Canada Goose expands its In Residence program
Canada Goose has expanded its “In Residence” program for artists, celebrating the post-pandemic reopening of its stores, to a third European city. The British-Indian artist Saroj Patel’s installation in the shop window of the company’s flagship store on Regent Street in London made its debut on June 26. This follows ...
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Lululemon to boost its diversity, equity and inclusion
On its website, Lululemon has detailed a number of pledges in response to the riots in the U.S. It will hire a “head of global diversity, equity and inclusion” and boost the budget of its “diversity, equity, and action” team by $5 million a year. It will establish “pacer” groups ...
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Head confirms the takeover of Zoggs
Confirming an earlier report, Head has announced its acquisition of Zoggs, the Australian brand of swim goggles, forming a water sports group with an annual turnover estimated at well over €100 million. It’s an interesting move for Head, which already has a leading market position in scuba diving as well ...
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Two-thirds of Karstadt Sports’ stores face possible closures
Signa Retail is considering the shutdown of 20 of the 30 branches of the Karstadt Sports chain in Germany as part of a reorganization program intended to pull the chain’s parent company, Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof (Galeria) out of its current insolvency. Signa owns 100 percent of the shares in Galeria, ...
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Zoot introduces cooling neck sleeves, for ventilation and protection
Zoot Sports, the specialist in performance apparel and footwear for endurance sports, has launched a product called the Cooling Neck Sleeves, designed to maintain maximum ventilation while also providing a protective barrier, of particular interest at the time of coronavirus. These neck sleeves are made with Chillout fabric, which uses ...
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A packed online audience for the Ispo Re.Start Days
Some 1,000 people have already registered for the Ispo Re.Start Days, the international online conference in English and German organized by the Ispo Group, which will take place on Tuesday, June 30 and Wednesday, July 1st. More are expected to sign up during the conference, depending on their availability and ...
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Munich’s oldest sports store will shut down
Regarded as a local institution, Sport Münzinger, the oldest sporting goods store in Munich, will close its doors at the end of this year. It was founded in 1904 on Munich’s central Marienplatz, after Hermann Münzinger served for 12 years as official supplier to the royal court of Bavaria. The ...
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Erreà introduces a new antibacterial fabric
Erreà, the Italian sportswear company and the kit supplier of many sports clubs in various countries, has introduced a new fabric that is said to protect the players from microbes and bacteria. Developed with the use of nanotechnologies, the new “Ti-energy” fabric is made with nanoparticles of zinc oxide. The ...
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News briefsPentland’s design contest honors a project inspired by British history
Pentland Brands has announced Alex Grant of the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts as the winner of the Pentland Winston Churchill Wardrobe Competition 2020. Grant was recognized for a project entitled Churchill’s “Victory” Swimming Goggles. His goggles are indeed inspired by the frame of Winston Churchill’s spectacles. In ...
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ArticleAnalysis: Digital accelerates at Nike after a poor quarter
Nike has decided to accelerate the digital development of its “consumer-direct offence” program after suffering a 36 percent currency-neutral drop in group revenues for the fourth quarter of its financial year, ended May 31. The rate of decline would have been steeper without the fruits of its earlier investments in ...
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Goldwin’s new forecast highlights Covid-19’s impact
Goldwin, which also controls The North Face’s trademark in Japan and has a stake in Woolrich International, has issued its outlook for the full year ending in March 2021. It forecasts that revenues will decline by about 23 percent from the previous year to 75,000 million yen (€624.7m-$688.0m). The Japanese ...
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Amazon steps up its fight against fakes
Amazon has announced the creation of a new Counterfeit Crimes Unit, a global, multi-disciplinary team composed of former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators and data analysts. The new unit is dedicated to “bringing counterfeiters that violate the law and Amazon’s policies by listing counterfeit products in its store to justice,” the ...
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Eric Roza, a local affiliate, will buy and lead CrossFit
Eric Roza, owner of a ten-year affiliate CrossFit gym in Boulder, Colorado and former senior vice president of Oracle Data Cloud, is going to become CrossFit’s new owner, at least at the U.S. level. Further details including the purchase price are missing. Roza described himself as the incoming “CEO and ...
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Wintersteiger goes on promoting young talent
Wintersteiger – the Austrian provider of machinery for ski repair and maintenance, software for ski rental, and equipment and furnishings for ski shops – continues to train young people despite the coronavirus pandemic. While announcing the appointment of a new head of human resources, Wintersteiger says it wants to hire ...
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New York marathons and others are cancelled, some go virtual
Running has flourished during the corona-related confinement as an individual sports activity. Nevertheless, the 2020 edition of the famous New York City Marathon, which was scheduled to take place on Nov. 1, has been cancelled because of the risks associated with the coronavirus pandemic. The iconic race and world’s largest ...
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Advance e-sales for Nike’s Dior sneaker
Dior will soon be launching a mini-website for limited advance sales of the sneaker it has created with Nike. Introduced in December, 2019 at Dior Homme’s pre-autumn 2020 fashion in Miami, the Air Jordan 1 OG Dior will in time be sold through pop-up stores, although no start date has ...
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Julbo announces new B2B platform
Julbo Eyewear is launching a new B2B platform. As reported by sport-guide.com , the new platform enables faster deliveries with cheaper delivery charges. All Julbo and Solar products are available via the platform. The project has been developed internally, with the help of an external consultant, ...
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New Balance confirms $1.25 million in grants for Covid-19 relief
The New Balance Foundation, which had pledged earlier this year to donate $2 million in non-profit grants in response to the pandemic, has confirmed a second round of funding. Selected organizations from the foundation’s network of grantees have recently received a combined total of $1.25 million in New Balance Foundation ...
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Stefan Herzog is the new president of Fedas
The European Federation of Sports Retailers, Fedas, unanimously elected Stefan Herzog as its new president at its general assembly, convened via a videoconference. Herzog, who ran SportScheck for many years until 2016, will continue as secretary general of VDS, the German Sports Retailers’s Federation, which he has led since the ...
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Obuv Rossii starts selling bicycles
As in many other countries, bicycles have become a hot commodity in Russia as an ecological alternative to public transport, in order to avoid contamination from the novel coronavirus, while keeping fit. Even a leading Russian footwear retailer, Obuv Rossii , has begun selling bicycles, handling after-sale servicing in its ...
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