All Action Sports articles – Page 22
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The surfer Keala Kennelly is the latest athlete to join...
The surfer Keala Kennelly is the latest athlete to join the squad of Dragon Eyewear.
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Ronnie Renner, the freestyle motocross athlete, is the first to...
Ronnie Renner, the freestyle motocross athlete, is the first to join the team of Airwalk.
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The surfer Keala Kennelly is the latest athlete to join...
The surfer Keala Kennelly is the latest athlete to join the squad of Dragon Eyewear.
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A limited edition of 499 surfboards carrying the Ferrari brand...
A limited edition of 499 surfboards carrying the Ferrari brand name and logo have been on sale from the speedlux.com website.
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Surfersvillage, the international online news service for surfers, has launched...
Surfersvillage, the international online news service for surfers, has launched an application for Apple’s iPhone, coinciding with its release of the iPad in the U.S. Called First in Surfing News, the application can be downloaded for free on the Apple App Store.
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Chris Bertish, the South African surfer, has signed a deal...
Chris Bertish, the South African surfer, has signed a deal with O’Neill.
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Burton is going to send the remainder of its snowboard...
Burton is going to send the remainder of its snowboard production to Austria, where it has been making the equipment for more than 25 years. It will shut down its Burton Manufacturing Center in its home state of Vermont this summer. Forty-three employees will be affected. Product design and development ...
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The surf brand Gotcha has launched a new website, Gotchaeurope.com,...
The surf brand Gotcha has launched a new website, Gotchaeurope.com, where customers will be able to buy online.
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Blue Tomato, the leading Austrian-based online retailer for surf and...
Blue Tomato, the leading Austrian-based online retailer for surf and snowboard products, expects to record a 35 percent increase in sales for the fiscal year ending on April 30. Its website, www.blue-tomato.com, is available in 12 languages and offers about 100,000 products. The best-selling segments were free ski and snow ...
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Blacks Leisure has sold its Mambo surf stores as it...
Blacks Leisure has sold its Mambo surf stores as it continues to exit from its boardwear business. Andrew Gerrie, the chief executive of Lush, bought the action sports chain for £800,000 (€919,280-$1.3m) through his investment vehicle based in Hong Kong. The sale is another step in Blacks’ reorganization. It has ...
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The surfing brand Gotcha has signed two new athletes: Eric...
The surfing brand Gotcha has signed two new athletes: Eric Rebiere, a Frenchman, and Adrien Toyon of Reunion Island.
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Bob Mignogna is joining the International Surfing Association as its...
Bob Mignogna is joining the International Surfing Association as its first director general. He used to be vice president of operations for the boardsports publications of ASG, and is a founding adviser of the Surf Industry Manufacturers’ Association. He now runs his own consultancy, focusing on the surfing and skate ...
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Lafuma Is Happy About Its Surf And Mountaineering Divisions
For the first quarter of its 2009-10 fiscal year, ended last Dec. 1, the Lafuma Group reports a sales decline of 3.9 percent to €51.4 million. Sales in France were up by 3.4 percent to €32.2 million, while the international business lost 13.9 percent and went down to €19.3 million. ...
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Elan Snowboards has made some changes to its management. Dragain...
Elan Snowboards has made some changes to its management. Dragain Gojkovic is the new sales and marketing manager for Elan and Artec snowboards, and Bojan Poljansek is program manager. They will take over the brands from Alexander Klinger, the former division manager for snowboards who has left the company. Nils ...
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The North Face has added Lucas DeBari, the snowboarder, to...
The North Face has added Lucas DeBari, the snowboarder, to its stable of more than 60 athletes around the world.
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Nordica is investing in freestyle skiing by organizing “freestyle camps”...
Nordica is investing in freestyle skiing by organizing “freestyle camps” for beginners and experienced riders at various Italian resorts. It is planning to hold a final competition at Livigno next Apr. 23-25 among the talents it has scouted in Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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Billabong will buy a minority interest in Surfstitch, an online...
Billabong will buy a minority interest in Surfstitch, an online board sports retailer in Australia, with an option to buy 100 percent of the company; the price was confidential.
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A Spanish freestyle skier, Alan Villanuova, is endorsing Elan and...
A Spanish freestyle skier, Alan Villanuova, is endorsing Elan and Dalbello.
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F2 International Surfs From Austria To Germany
Gerald Pascher, owner of the F2 brand of boardsports products, has sealed a deal with Bernd Flügel to shift the head office of F2 International from Austria to Germany. While Pascher keeps the brand rights to F2, his family-owned company, MAG, has sold 40 percent of the shares of the ...
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New Balance has teamed up with the snowboarding brand 686...
New Balance has teamed up with the snowboarding brand 686 to create the 686 Times New Balance collection, a line of snowboard boots, sneakers, jackets and T-shirts that includes two adaptations of the New Balance 580 trail-running shoe.
