All about events in the sporting goods industry – Page 10
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News briefsPádel Village returns to ISPO Munich
According to CMDsport, the Padel Village, not seen since its inaugural years of 2014 and 2015, is making a return at this year’s ISPO Munich, scheduled for Nov. 28-30. The representative of the trade show in Spain, Martina Claus, believes that the market for pádel was at the time insufficiently ...
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News briefsFitnessConnected, therapie München and ISPO Munich cooperate
In November, FitnessConnected and therapie München will coincide at the same time as ISPO Munich. The cooperation of the three trade shows includes clear focal points: FitnessConnected will concentrate on the topic of “commercial fitness” in a dedicated trade show hall, ISPO Munich will feature the topic of “home fitness” ...
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ArticleEmerald returns to Salt Lake with Outdoor Retailer
Outdoor Retailer is returning to Salt Lake City, Utah. The last show in Denver will be OR Summer from June 9-11, 2022. After the June event and five years in Colorado, the next Winter Show will be the first OR event in its new, old home. OR was based in ...
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News briefsPadel Trend Expo 2022, the first major Italian trade show dedicated to padel
The inaugural edition of the Padel Trend Expo will take place at Palazzo dei Congressi in Rome on Sept. 16-18, 2022. The event is organized by Next Group, an integrated communication group with its subsidiary Padel Trend Srl and in collaboration with the Italian Tennis Federation (FIT). The new event, ...
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U.K. trade show organizer Raccoon buys U.S. B2C event from SIA
Raccoon Events, the British company behind the National Running Show and the National Outdoor Expo in the U.K., has acquired the Snowbound Festival from Snowsports Industries America (SIA). Raccoon and SIA announced that they would form a long-term partnership in conjunction with the Snowbound B2C event. The partnership aims to ...
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TaiSPO 2022 is taking place as a hybrid event
The 2022 Taipei International Sporting Goods Show (TaiSPO), currently taking place at the Nangang Exhibition Center in Taipei, is TaiSPO’s first physical event since the pandemic outbreak. The physical trade show, which is also open to the general public, started on March 10 and will conclude on March 12. Running ...
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Performance Days Fall/Winter to be held Nov. 3-4 at MOC in Munich
The winter edition of the Performance Days fabrics trade show will be held for the first time on Nov. 3-4, 2022, and on a one-time basis at Munich’s MOC order center. It will be accompanied by a digital offering. The MOC, also the one-time venue for OutDoor by ISPO in ...
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News briefsProwinter 2022 will be a one-day event
Fiera Bolzano, the organizer of Prowinter, has announced that the 2022 edition of the event will have a one-day format, as opposed to its original three days. The decision was made in agreement with exhibitors, associations and other partners due to ongoing supply chain delays, Fiera Bolzano said. The 2022 ...
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News briefsAction Sports Career Fair in Hossegor is back this week
After two years of absence due to the pandemic and following the two very successful first editions, EUROSIMA, the MACS District Council and the City of Hossegor, together with the Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse Employment Agency, are organizing the third edition of the Action Sports Career Fair on Friday, March 25, 2022, from ...
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News briefsSport Job Day is back in France
After three years of absence, the Sport Job Day will be back in Paris on April 20. The sport-focused career fair, hosted at the iconic Parc de Princes stadium, is co-organized by Union Sport & Cycle, the Paris Municipality and the French employment center (Pôle Emploi). The first two editions ...
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ISPO Shanghai will take place in June
Messe München’s Chinese representative has announced the dates for this year’s ISPO Shanghai. The show serves as the leading multi-segment summer trade show for the sports industry in Asia. Originally scheduled for mid-July, the event will now take place June 16-18, 2022, at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC). ...
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Sport Achat is back
After three years of absence and two consecutive cancelations, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and related restrictions, Sport Achat Hiver will finally take place this year as a physical event at Eurexpo in Lyon, France, on March 7-9. Sport Achat, organized by Sportair, is a B2B event for industry professionals ...
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News briefsOutdoor Retailer could face boycott if it returns to Salt Lake City
Several outdoor companies announced Monday they would boycott the Outdoor Retailer (OR) trade show events if they were moved from Denver to Salt Lake City. Their reasoning is that they suspect the Utah state government has unacceptable plans for some state national monuments and public lands. The announcement came after ...
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News briefsFIBO 2022 holds on to April event in Cologne
The organizers of FIBO are committed to a return to normality in 2022. After a two-year absence, the global fitness show is to return as a physical show on April 7-10 in Cologne, Germany, with” the best possible health and safety protection for all attendees,” Koelnmesse says. One day before ...
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ArticleHaushofer is named ISPO project director, reporting to Gröber
The Covid pandemic has been responsible for the fact that we have not been able to meet in person at any ISPO trade show for almost two years, and the situation has been particularly challenging for the trade show organizers. In the wake of the many cancellations and digital substitutes, ...
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News briefsOR’s organizers release a report on B2B trade shows
Emerald Holding, the New York-based organizer of the Outdoor Retailer (OR) trade shows and others, has released its first research report about the exhibitors’ and visitors’ changing expectations that are influencing and shaping the future of the business-to-business (B2B) events industry. The report will be published annually in the future, ...
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ArticleThe first winners of the 2022 ISPO Awards
The ISPO Group has announced the first winners of its revamped ISPO Awards. The modernized version of the award show, which – in its previous form – has been part of ISPO since 2011, will now be presented throughout the entire year and judged by a jury comprising members of ...
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Many ski brands show in the Netherlands
Many leading snow sports brands are participating in the “Winter Hardware Days” being organized at the Sports Business Center at Leusden for the Dutch market on Jan. 24 and 25, filling the gap left from the postponement of ISPO Munich to the end of November. Buyers are being asked to ...
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Covid cut Messe München’s revenues by €400m in 2020 and 2021
Messe München, the organizer of the ISPO trade shows, says it lost about €400 million in revenues over the past two years because of the Covid pandemic, but it is optimistic about this year, which will see 54 directly managed events being held inside and outside Germany, particularly in the ...
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No ISPO Beijing until December
The ISPO Group reported in mid-December that the ISPO Beijing fair, originally scheduled for Dec. 28-30, was going to be “postponed” because of the Covid pandemic. Veronica Pang, who was promoted to head up the ISPO China team last month, has told us that it will not happen anytime soon. ...
