All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 32, Issue 31+32 – Page 6
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Decathlon Spain partners with eco-food retailer Veritas
Decathlon Spain has partnered with Veritas, a Spanish chain of ecologic food markets, to expand its food offering, most typically focused on food complements for sports. As part of the agreement, the Decathlon Rivas-Vaciamadrid store in the Madrid area will be selling eco-food products from Veritas in a dedicated shop-in-shop ...
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News briefsOlympic para-powerlifter Ali Jawad launches disability fitness app
Ali Jawad, a 32-year-old British powerlifter, originally born in Lebanon, who competes in the class up to 59kg and won a silver medal in Rio 2016, has unveiled Accessercise, a new mobile app designed to make sport and fitness more accessible for people living with impairments. According to Jawad, the ...
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Sport 2000 expands specialization strategy to BeNeLux
Having already successfully implemented its specialization strategy with the Laufprofis for running and the Sneaker Force for sneaker specialists in Germany, Sport 2000 GmbH is now extending the strategy to other European countries, starting in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. The necessary structures are created under the leadership of Gunther ...
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ArticlePuma becomes official apparel partner of e-sports organization Gen.G
Puma has announced the expansion of its partnership with global e-sports organization Gen.G. The previous agreement, signed in June 2020, included the production of a jersey for Gen.G’s winning PUBG and League of Legends teams, both based in Seoul, South Korea. The jerseys feature a design by Gen.G executive brand ...
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ArticleParts shortages put on the brakes at Accell
A growing market for bike parts and accessories helped Accell Group to raise net sales for the six months to June 30 by 3.3 percent to €699.1 million, despite a drop in sales of finished bicycles due to supply and logistics problems. Order books for electric bikes remained strong, but ...
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RiminiWellness opens ticket sales for live event
The organizers of RiminiWellness have announced that online ticket sales are officially open for the 15th edition of the show, which is scheduled to take place as a physical event on Sept. 24-26 at Rimini Expo Center in Rimini, on Italy’s Adriatic coast. RiminiWellness is the Italian Exhibition Group’s (IEG) ...
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2022 Skyrunning World Championships to be held in Italy
The seventh edition of the biennial Skyrunning World Championships will be held in Italy on Sept. 9-11, 2022. The host venue will be Ossola, in Italy’s Piedmont, a region situated to the north of Lago Maggiore, close to the Swiss border. The area, set in an amphitheater surrounded by snow-covered ...
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Short stops
July 26-28 Short Stops: Fanatics - Aqualung - Asics - Hyperice - BFC - StockX - Anta Group - Hurley - Dunlop - TRX - Canada Goose - Superdry - JD Sports - Luxottica - Ironman - Rugby World Cup
Executive Changes: +++ According to The New York Times, Fanatics has hired Glenn Schiffman, the CFO of IAC, the parent company of several Internet-based media commercial enterprises, as CFO of its new ventures beyond sports apparel +++ Aqualung, a French designer and manufacturer of diving and watersports equipment, has appointed ...
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The Lifestyle Company will distribute O’Neill ready-to-wear in France
The Lifestyle Company will distribute O’Neill products in France, including the overseas departments and territories, in a new multi-year contract that will debut in spring 2022. The contract only involves the O’Neill ready-to-wear lifestyle offer. O’Neill Wetsuits, based in England, takes charge of the equipment and technical products. O’Neill is ...
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Nike partners with four designers to celebrate the artistry of sport
Nike has partnered with four international designers on an initiative that is collectively supposed to signify “the unifying value of sport as a spark of imagination, possibility and vibrancy.” The brand partnered on sport-inspired collections with Virgil Abloh’s Off-White, Jun Takahashi of Undercover, Yoon Ahn of Ambush, and Chitose Abe ...
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Sequential sells DVS Footwear
While exploring strategic options to keep afloat, the Sequential Brands Group has announced the sale of its 65 percent stake in DVS Footwear to Elan Polo International for $2 million in cash. DVS is a global American brand of skate shoes founded in 1995. In April, Sequential sold another footwear ...
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Decathlon products in Manor department stores in Switzerland
Decathlon is consolidating its cooperation with the Maus-Frères group, which is its joint venture partner for Switzerland, by offering some of its private label items in ten of the group’s Manor department stores in the country and on the chain’s web store, starting with the outdoor segment. The move is ...
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Consolidation in French sports e-tailing
Sport-guide.com reports that Lefreto, a French e-tailer that already owns three other sports-related transactional websites, has taken over Glisse-Proshop, a French multi-channel retailer that specializes in products for all kinds of boardsports, including surfing and snowboarding. Glisse-Proshop is more surf-oriented than Glisshop, another French e-tailer owned by Lefreto that covers ...
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ArticleAsics cuts off some European retailers
Asics has decided to end relations with some retailers in Europe, starting with deliveries planned for January 2022 and afterwards, citing “unprecedented demand for our products,” combined with a challenging Covid-19 situation in many of its production countries. Running is booming, and as we have already reported, new supply chain ...
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Crocs makes sustainability pledge
Crocs has pledged to have net zero carbon emissions by 2030, and to this end it will be increasing the sustainability of its materials, changing its packaging and investing in “resource use” and “product afterlife solutions.” The American brand is modifying the composition of its shoes’ main ingredient, Croslite, to ...
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ArticleCrocs raises guidance as Q2 revenues stride ahead
Crocs reported better-than-expected second-quarter sales and raised its full-year guidance on the back of strong global demand for its products, despite supply chain disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Easily beating an analyst consensus forecast of $565.2 million, the company posted record revenues of $640.8 million for the three months ...
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ArticleSkechers’ sales rise by 127.3%, driven by comfort trends
Skechers reported a 127.3 perrcent increase in revenues to a record level of $1.66 billion for the second quarter ended June 30, with a growth of 117.5 percent in local currencies and of 31.7 percent from the second quarter of 2019. Improving its guidance for the full financial year, the ...
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Adidas replaces UA as sponsor of the University of Hawaii
Adidas is taking over the sponsorship of the University of Hawaii from Under Armour in two stages, following a negotiated buyout of the latter’s $10.2 million five-year deal with the school that was originally set to expire in June 2022. The Three Stripes will be the school’s sponsor for apparel ...
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News briefsSportful to sponsor the Girona Gravel Ride
Sportful is the official sponsor of this year’s Girona Gravel Ride, a road race within the Sea Otter Europe Costa Brava Girona by Continental competition. Specifically, the Italian brand will be supplying, in a limited edition, the official jersey for all riders. The Ride is 78 kilometers long, with a ...
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Devan’s Moov&Cool technology supports elite athletes in the U.K. and Belgium
Devan Chemicals, the Belgian-based textile finishing expert, has been supporting high performance sport in the U.K. and Belgium with its Moov&Cool “‘cool comfort technology.” The company has worked alongside the English Institute for Sport (EIS) and Sally Cowan, a garment research and development prototyping company in the U.K. to apply ...
