All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 32, Issue 51+52 – Page 3

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    New Reebok licensee for India

    2021-12-15T18:46:00Z

    The Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has picked a new licensee for Reebok in India and other ASEAN nations: Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The Indian company, Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail Ltd. (ABFRL) is already ABG’s local licensee for Forever 21 and Van Heusen. It also works ...

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    New 2020 retail figures for Spain

    2021-12-15T18:16:00Z

    We have obtained new figures for the sales of some of the leading Spanish sports retailers in 2020 from a Spanish market research agency, Sport Panel, leading us revise one of the charts that we published on Friday. The revised chart shows, among other things, that the Spanish turnover of ...

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    Padel Nuestro acquires Definitely Time2padel

    2021-12-15T18:06:00Z

    The Spanish specialty retailer Padel Nuestro has achieved worldwide retail domination in the sport of pádel, following its acquisition over the past two weeks of Definetely Time2padel, along with its Time2padel and Padelmania banners and its Mystica brand of paddles. The terms and the price paid remain undisclosed. The company, ...

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    ISPO Beijing 2021 is being postponed to an undefined date

    2021-12-15T15:49:00Z

    The ISPO Group announced that ISPO Beijing, which was scheduled to take place from Dec. 28 to 30, 2021, at Beijing’s China National Convention Center, has had to be postponed at short notice in light of the still complex and serious pandemic situation at the national level and to implement ...

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    Safilo’s Smith brand introduces custom, 3D-printed goggles

    2021-12-14T17:32:00Z

    Safilo Group, the Italian eyewear company, has begun 3D-printing products through its American brand of sports glasses, Smith, with what it calls Imprint 3D Technology. One result is the Smith I/O MAG Imprint 3D goggle, which it claims to be the “first custom goggle built to the individual features of ...

  • Short stops

    Dec. 14 Short Stops: EFTTEX – Jaffa - New Balance - Rose Bikes - Scantrade

    2021-12-14T17:31:00Z

    Management: +++ Marcus Diekmann will leave on Jan. 1 as the CEO and as one of the three join managing directors of Rose Bikes to run International Brands Company (IBC), the private label subsidiary of Peek & Cloppenburg, but he will continue as an actively available partner in ...

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    FIFA unveils a new commercial partnership structure

    2021-12-14T17:27:00Z

    Brands will be able for the first time to take up dedicated partnerships with FIFA around women’s football and esports/gaming. The international governing body for football said the new range of partnership packages “will provide more options and flexibility for companies to connect with global football and the biggest cultural ...

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    Foot Locker launches its Cozi label of women’s apparel

    2021-12-14T17:26:00Z

    Foot Locker has announced the global launch of its first private label of women’s apparel, Cozi, presenting it as “an apparel brand designed for women who keep up with trends, love sneakers and crave premium wardrobe staples at an affordable value.” It will be exclusively available in multiple sizes online ...

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    Alistair Cameron joins sportshoes.com as non-executive director

    2021-12-14T17:26:00Z

    Alistair Cameron, the experienced sporting goods industry executive who served most recently as CEO of Asics EMEA until November 2019, is joining Sports Shoes, the U.K.-based athletic footwear e-tailer, as non-executive director. The British executive spent 35 years in the industry. He joined Asics in 2009 after working for a ...

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    FESI questions aspects of the Digital Services Act

    2021-12-14T17:26:00Z

    FESI, the European Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry, said it welcomes the consumer-driven approach taken by the Internal Market Committee (IMCO) of the European Parliament in adopting a report on the future Digital Services Act (DSA) of the European Union, as it introduces an obligation to inform consumers when ...

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    Nike acquires a London-based digital assets producer, RTFKT

    2021-12-14T17:26:00Z

    Nike has acquired RTFKT (pronounced “artifact”), which the sportwear giant describes in its press release as delivering “next generation collectibles that merge culture and gaming.” The terms of the deal will not be disclosed, said NIke. Founded as a company as recently as January 2020 – by Benoit Pagotto, ...

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    ISPO will hold an online “trend festival” in January and February

    2021-12-14T15:39:00Z

    ISPO has announced the ISPO.com Trend Festival 2022, scheduled from Jan. 17 to Feb. 18, 2022, to celebrate the most innovative products, newcomers and important trends in the sporting goods and outdoor industry. After the strategic move of ISPO Munich’s dates from late January to its permanent new date in ...

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    Blue Tomato expands to Norway

    2021-12-14T15:38:00Z

    Source: blue-tomato.com The new Blue Tomato store at Grensen 13 in downtown Oslo. Blue Tomato has opened its first store in Norway. The Austrian-based company, which is part of the U.S. action sports retailer Zumiez, moved into a 425-square-meter store at Grensen 13 in the heart of ...

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    Made to be remade: How Adidas wants to trigger systemic change

    2021-12-14T15:38:00Z

    Eight months after announcing the new project of a climate-friendly running shoe in collaboration with Allbirds, Adidas has reported the planned launch on Dec. 15 of its Futurecraft.Footprint. With 2.94 kg of CO2 emissions per pair, Adidas describes the shoe as a personal best for both brands. The Futurecraft.Footprint is ...

  • Short stops

    Dec. 13 Short Stops: Asics – JD - Lager 157 – Nike – Sports Direct - Therabody

    2021-12-13T18:24:00Z

    Corporate: +++ A spokesman for JD Sports Fashion would not comment on a report in The Sunday Times that the group has decided not to appeal again the latest anti-trust verdict forbidding its takeover of the Footasylum chain +++ Frasers Group, parent company of Sports Direct, announced the ...

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    YAC shareholders voting on combination with SSU

    2021-12-13T18:23:00Z

    Signa Sports United (SSU) and Yucaipa Acquisition Corp. (YAC) said they expected to complete their planned business combination on Dec. 14, following approval by YAC shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting on Dec. 13. The transaction was expected to generate gross proceeds of at least $484 million, coming mainly from ...

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    Spain's Tréndico annexes an 11-store chain

    2021-12-13T18:18:00Z

    The Tréndico buying group – which has come in seventh among Spain’s largest sports retailers in our recent ranking – has completed a two-year initiative and fully absorbed Grupo Rico, a smaller operation headquartered in the town of Parla, outside Madrid. Ricosport, which enjoys a strong position in the Madrid ...

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    Nike’s website gets more visits than major fashion retailers

    2021-12-13T18:09:00Z

    Nike continued to outperform various fashion retailers this year in terms of visits to its website on a global basis, according to an annual study by Semrush that uses Google data. Monthly visits to its websites averaged 120 million so far this year, 3.3 percent below the level of 2020, ...

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    More concentration in the German media market

    2021-12-13T18:09:00Z

    Accelerated by the Covid pandemic, which has reduced the sports brands’ budget for national B2B advertising, the number of German retailer-oriented trade publications operating in the German sporting goods market has been cut from three to one over a span of just five years. The Ebner Media Group (EMG) has ...

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    Fendi collaborates with Arena and Thélios

    2021-12-13T18:09:00Z

    Fendi, the Italian luxury fashion house owned by LVMH, is entering the sport of swimming through a limited-edition collection of high-performance caps and goggles, with special packaging, developed in collaboration with Arena and Thélios. They will become available in January. The swim goggles and the caps are supplied by Arena. ...