All Action Sports articles – Page 10
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Paris Surf & Skate Film Fest is open for submissions
The fifth edition of the Paris Surf and Skate Film Festival (Sept. 24-27) is open for submissions until July 14. This year, the organizers have announced a new category for music videos with a predominant surf or skate theme. Details and registration are available at pssff.fr.
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H&M develops sustainable swimwear and surfwear
After its incursion into the segment of affordable activewear, H&M has developed a new sustainable swimwear and surfwear collection for the first time, In cooperation with the international ”Women + Waves” community of surfers, which organizes professional and affordable surf lessons, weekends and overseas trips for women. The line includes ...
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Lafuma divests its surfwear brand
Lafuma has finalized the sale of Oxbow, its brand of surf-inspired sportswear. The move will allow the French company to concentrate on the outdoor sector with two brands, Lafuma and Millet. The group had previously sold its Eider brand to K2 of South Korea. The new owner of Oxbow is ...
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Burton cancels 2021 snowboarding event
Burton Snowboards announced that the company had cancelled the 2021 edition of the Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships, scheduled for March 1-6, 2021 at Vail Mountain Resort in Colorado, due to ongoing uncertainties around the Covid-19 pandemic. Burton’s chief executive, John Lacy, explained that it was a difficult decision as ...
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Surfdome and Patagonia partner to recycle poly bags
The European B2B publication Boardsport Source reports that Surfdome and Patagonia have embarked upon an initiative, called “Plastic Cutback,” to rethink the poly bag. According to Surfdome, 80 billion items of clothing are sold per year, almost all packed in poly bags, and 72 percent of all plastic, much of ...
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Quiksilver and Roxy strike four-year deal with the French Surfing Federation
Quiksilver and Roxy have struck a deal with the French Surfing Federation for the next four years. This notably includes the Summer Olympics coming up this year in Tokyo. The brands are now the official kit suppliers for the French men’s and women’s short-board teams. In parallel, they will develop ...
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Head introduces lightest snowboard range on the market
Head has announced the introduction of the lightest snowboard range on the market with boards made of innovative material combinations following the “Lyt Tech” principle. The brand applies the principle also to other product lines, including skis and ski boots. The idea is to focus only on essentials during product ...
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Zimstern launching apparel collection for skiers and snowboarders
Zimtstern, the German-based action sports brand, is launching a new apparel collection for skiers and snowboarders and has recently expanded its sales team. The former Swiss boardsports brand – once a part of Sports Pool, the Swiss company behind the Belowzero brand of ski and snowboard apparel – withdrew from ...
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Reef Lifestyle, the premium surf brand recently divested by VF...
Reef Lifestyle, the premium surf brand recently divested by VF Corp., has established partnerships to transfer the distribution of its footwear to specialists in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The distributors include Brandfusion Holland (Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg), Quality Brands (Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France), Georgoudas OE (Greece), ...
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Seasport is the new importer of Vision surfboards in Norway...
Seasport is the new importer of Vision surfboards in Norway
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Lululemon is going to partner with the World Surf League...
Lululemon is going to partner with the World Surf League (WSL) for the Women's Championship Tour finale at Honolua Bay in Maui. The high-end sports brand will support the final stop of the tour, the Maui Pro. Lululemon will be providing extra athlete preparation services, recovery zones for the surfers ...
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Jake Burton Carpenter, the founder of Burton Snowboards and one...
Jake Burton Carpenter, the founder of Burton Snowboards and one of the true snowboarding pioneers, died on Nov. 20 at the age of 65 of complications from a relapse of testicular cancer. Jake was instrumental in making snowboarding a major sports activity, an important business and an Olympic discipline. He ...
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Quiksilver and the World Surf League have announced the return...
Quiksilver and the World Surf League have announced the return of the Quiksilver Pro G-Land as part of the program for the 2020 WSL Championship Tour next June. The event is returning after 25 years, taking competitive surfers to one of the sport's most remote competitive spots: Grajagan Bay in ...
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Tom Wilson-North, former owner of the freeride snowboard shop Zero...
Tom Wilson-North, former owner of the freeride snowboard shop Zero G in Chamonix, France, is joining the Nidecker Group in the new role of digital transformation manager. Wilson-North has been senior snowboard writer at Boardsport Source, key advisor to Protect Our Winters Europe and a member of the snow sports ...
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Burton Snowboards has become the first snowboarding company to obtain...
Burton Snowboards has become the first snowboarding company to obtain B Corporation certification from the B Lab, showing that the company is using its business “as a force for good” around the world. At last month's European Outdoor Summit in Interlaken, Donna Carpenter, co-founder of Burton, stated that the company ...
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Hexa Surfboard has received a check for €5,000, having beaten...
Hexa Surfboard has received a check for €5,000, having beaten out 22 other respondents to the 2019 Call for Innovation Projects put out by Eurosima, the European boardsports industry association, and Outdoor Sports Valley, the French industry association for outdoor sports. Founded in September 2018 by three surf-loving engineers – ...
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A former professional snowboarder, David Pitschi, has joined the Nidecker...
A former professional snowboarder, David Pitschi, has joined the Nidecker Group as brand manager for its Yes snowboards subsidiary. He will be working with one of the brand's ambassadors, Alex Warburton, and with its owners, David Carrier-Porcheron, Romain de Marchi and Jan Petter Solberg. Warburton will be retaining the post ...
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Burton Snowboards has reinforced its presence in Switzerland with the...
Burton Snowboards has reinforced its presence in Switzerland with the opening two new stores and the appointment of a new country manager: Daniela Meyer, previously key account manager at Adidas Sport, who has taken over the position of Dan Fitzgerald, effective Oct. 1. The company already has a Burton Hub ...
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The latest edition of Surf Expo, scheduled for Sept. 5-7,...
The latest edition of Surf Expo, scheduled for Sept. 5-7, and its pre-show outdoor festival Waterfest, scheduled for Sept. 4, were cancelled. Both were to be held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, which at the time was under threat from Dorian, the hurricane that ravaged the ...
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K2 Snowboarding has added Pat Moore to its International Pro...
K2 Snowboarding has added Pat Moore to its International Pro Team, otherwise comprised of Jake Kuzyk, Tim Eddy, Curtis Ciszek, Matt Belzile, Leanne Pelosi, Levi Luggen, Yo Amagai, Jody Wachniak and Mark Wilson. K2 Sports, which was founded in 1962, began making snowboards in 1987.
