All Sporting Goods Intelligence articles in Volume 34, Issue 27+28 – Page 2
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News briefsJordan Brand Jumpman appears on a WNBA uniform for the first time
The Jordan Brand Jumpman emblem appeared for the first time on a Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA)’s uniform during the 2023 WNBA All-Star Game in Las Vegas on July 15. The logo appears on the chest of the jerseys and underscores the commitment of the Jordan Brand, jointly run by ...
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News briefsAn online course on AI for footwear
Footwearology, the self-described “only academy for footwear professionals” with operations in Barcelona, has introduced a course called “AI for Footwear.” Taught by Nicoline van Enter, one of the founders of Footwearology and Footwearology Lab, the course is designed for managers seeking an understanding of AI as well as for designers ...
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News briefsICC announces equal prize money for men’s and women’s teams in cricket
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced that men’s and women’s teams will receive equal prize money at ICC events. The historic decision was taken at the ICC Annual Conference in Durban, South Africa, ”well ahead” of the 2030 scheduled deadline that had previously been set for that objective. Teams ...
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News briefsChina Dongxiang increases Chinese Kappa sales in Q1
China Dongxiang, which has been publicly traded for 15 years and holds the rights to the Kappa brand in China, announced that retail sales at its Kappa and Kappa Kids stores - 1,020 doors at the end of the quarter, a decrease from the previous quarter of five stores - ...
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News briefs11teamsports acquires Kickz
11teamsports, one of Europe’s leading team sports specialists for products and team services, has acquired basketball and streetwear retailer Kickz. Kickz was founded in Munich in 1993 and is a multi-brand retailer specializing in basketball and sneakers. Zalando purchased Kickz in 2017 and sold it in late 2019 to Play ...
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ArticleRussian sporting goods retailers Lestate and Sportmaster launch private label lines
Russian sporting goods company Lestate has submitted an application to the state patent agency Rospatent to register its own brand Rank. At the same time, the Russian largest sporting goods retailer rolled out plans to register the third line of sporting goods under the Athlex brand. Goods under the Rank ...
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ArticleFormer Nike distributor in Russia launches multibrand retail chain
Russian retail company Inventive Retail Group plans to launch a new network, Amazing Red, to sell sporting goods of multiple Western brands. Tikhon Smykov, president of Inventive Retail Group, told the local press that the company intends to launch 100 outlets under a new banner in the ...
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News briefsLotto extends partnership with AC Monza
Lotto Sport Italia and Italian football club AC Monza have announced an extension of their partnership agreement until and including the 2025/26 season. The partnership between the sportswear brand and the club has been in place since the 2019/20 football season. Founded in 1912, AC Monza currently competes in Serie ...
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SponsoredJML Apparel’s implementation of Vizoo drives efficiency and sustainability
Discover how JML Apparel has enhanced its product development process through the integration of 3D Design and digital asset libraries.
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Short stops
Short Stops Week 29, 2023
CORPORATE AND M&A +++ Shop Eat Surf reports that Boardriders announced in a meeting at its California headquarters that the closing of the acquisition by Authentic Brands Group has been postponed from July 31 to Aug. 31 +++ As part of its strategy shift toward digital content, Lululemon has laid ...
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ArticleAdidas partners with scientific project: Biopolymers from algae for textiles
The textiles of the future are “bio-based”. This is the conviction behind the BIOTEXFUTURE Innovation Space – a concept funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the transformation to a bio-based economy. A central role in this innovation space is played by the German ...
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News briefsLe Coq Sportif reportedly seeks €30 million in equity financing
In March 2020, Le Coq Sportif secured an agreement to supply apparel for the French Olympic and Paralympic teams for the Paris 2024 Games. The brand was awarded the kit deal as a result of an apparel supplier tender that was issued in September 2019. Three years later, and just ...
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News briefsWestfield becomes a shopping destination for Paris 2024 official products
The Paris 2024 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (OCOG) has announced Westfield, part of the Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) group, as an official supporter of the Games, the third level in its national marketing program. Westfield has eight shopping centers in France, located in Ile-de-France, Lyon and Lille. Paris ...
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ArticleSpanish market could break €9bn next year, says Afydad
Retail revenues (sell-out) for the Spanish sporting goods industry continued its march toward the €9 billion mark in 2022, reaching €8.993 billion through year-on-year growth of 4.6 percent. Things have, however, slowed down since the boom year of 2021, which offered more than twice the growth (11.1%). Last year’s wholesale ...
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ArticleXXL initiates new operating model under new CEO; reports Q2 loss
Norwegian retailer XXL ASA reported another weak quarter of results but also some progress on its initiative to develop a new operating model under CEO Freddy Sobin, who has been on the job for two-and-a-half months. The Q2 Ebitda loss was 57 million Norwegian kroner (€4.9m), which included a NOK ...
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News briefsFrance’s new money-back scheme aims to encourage repairs
In its continuing bid to clean up the fashion industry, France is once again leading the way with legislation to encourage a more circular form of ownership. This week, Bérangère Couillard, the Secretary of State for Ecology, announced that individuals will be able to claim back between €7 and €25 ...
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News briefsAre there similarities between football and chess?
Puma has announced a collaboration between five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen and professional footballer Christian Pulisic. The two athletes met on a football field to talk about the differences and similarities between chess and football. Similarities? Well, the conversation actually shows that there are many things that are relevant ...
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ArticleAhead of FIFA Women’s, Adidas celebrates the game’s next-gen icons
To kick off its campaign for the FIFA Women’s World Cup™ (July 20-Aug. 20, 2023), Adidas is celebrating the next-gen stars of women’s soccer, Alessia Russo, Lena Oberdorf and Mary Fowler. Adidas’ “Play Until They Can’t Look Away” films showcase the skill and passion of some of the world’s best ...
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ArticlePádel making an approach to VR
Vista Animations and Motion Capture Barcelona have spent the past 20 months developing the first virtual reality (VR) manifestation of pádel. “At the beginning,” lead developer Sergi Anglada tells The Padel Paper, which has done a full write-up, “we didn’t know how far we could go and whether the technology ...
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Infographics & DataTop 10 highest-earning tennis players by career prize money
Discover the 10 tennis players with the highest prize money earnings, as well as a short history of prize money equity in professional tennis
