All about events in the sporting goods industry – Page 34
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A larger and more centrally located section of the Interbike...
A larger and more centrally located section of the Interbike show in Las Vegas next Sept. 21-23 will allow up to 30 innovative European companies to exhibit in an updated turnkey booth area in order to enter the U.S. market for the first or second time. Last year, a smaller ...
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The Badminton World Federation (BWF) and the World Federation of...
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) and the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) are organizing the first Badminton Sporting Goods Brands Meeting on May 18 at the Jinling Grand Hotel in Kunshan, in Jiangsu province, China. It has been arranged to coincide with the Thomas Cup for men ...
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The Outdoor Retailer Winter Market has modified its dates for...
The Outdoor Retailer Winter Market has modified its dates for 2017 and reduced the event by one day. Emerald Expositions, the organizers, said the trade show will be pulled into the mid-week and will now last only three days instead of four. The 2017 edition will begin on Tuesday, Jan. ...
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The new X-Bionic Sphere in Slovakia will host The Championship,...
The new X-Bionic Sphere in Slovakia will host The Championship, a new half-distance event in the Triathlon World Championship. It will be organized by the Challenge Family and carry a minimum €150,000 professional prize purse.
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Fibo, the trade fair for fitness, wellness and health organized...
Fibo, the trade fair for fitness, wellness and health organized by Reed Exhibitions Deutschland, set an all-time record this year. According to the organizers, the event attracted a total of 153,000 visitors to Cologne, as compared to 136,000 in the prior year, including 83,000 trade visitors from more than 100 ...
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The exhibitors of Performance Days, the trade show on functional...
The exhibitors of Performance Days, the trade show on functional fabrics taking place in Munich on April 20-21, have sponsored a new design project by the Master School of Fashion in Munich combining fashion and function in sportswear. Under the heading “a fior da pele,” which is the Brazilian for ...
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Sportjam will return to its original dates at a new...
Sportjam will return to its original dates at a new location on the Zurriola beach, in the city of Donostia-San Sebastián. The 12th edition of the Spanish action sports fair will be held on Oct. 1-2, 2016, one week ahead of the world surfing championship in Hossegor. Sportjam will maintain ...
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Derby Cycle, the company owned by Pon, and its brands...
Derby Cycle, the company owned by Pon, and its brands - Focus, Kalkhoff, Raleigh, Univega and Rixe - will not be taking part in the Eurobike trade show this summer, as the German manufacturer said it will be concentrating more on its dealer events in 2016. The company will continue ...
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The latest winter edition of Sport-Achat, the French trade fair...
The latest winter edition of Sport-Achat, the French trade fair held on March 7-9, saw the number of visitors decline by 3.8 percent but organizers said the number of visiting companies remained stable. Although the warm winter weather has been an issue for some parts of the French market, the ...
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Expo Sports, the running fair held around the Barcelona marathon,...
Expo Sports, the running fair held around the Barcelona marathon, attracted a record number of more than 62,000 visitors this year, making it the largest running fair in Spain. This is partly because runners had to get to the fair in order to pick up their bibs. The exhibition area ...
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Sun & Sand Sports, a leading sports distributor and retailer...
Sun & Sand Sports, a leading sports distributor and retailer in the Middle East, will be the headline sponsor of the second edition of the Dubai Fitness Fest, which is scheduled to take place on Nov. 4-5 this year at SkyDive Dubai in the Dubai Marina. The Sun & Sand ...
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The TCS New York City Marathon, the world's largest marathon,...
The TCS New York City Marathon, the world's largest marathon, accepted a record number of runners for its 2016 edition. New York Road Runners (NYRR), which organizes the event, announced it accepted 19,083 participants through the race entry lottery held on March 8, out of 82,172 applicants. NYRR said the ...
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The organizers of Ispo Beijing boasted that the number of...
The organizers of Ispo Beijing boasted that the number of visitors at the fair soared by 29 percent to 38,600, driven by growing Chinese enthusiasm for sports and more particularly for winter sports, in the run-up to the Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing in 2022. The twelfth edition ...
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Sport Achat will hold a second summer fair this year...
Sport Achat will hold a second summer fair this year in Nantes, in western France. This trade show for the French sporting goods industry is normally held twice a year in Lyon, with its next summer edition scheduled to take place on Sept 12-13. But another stop will be added ...
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The next Ispo Shanghai fair, scheduled for July 6-8, will...
The next Ispo Shanghai fair, scheduled for July 6-8, will feature a new trends forum for beachwear. To this effect, Ispo Textrends, the platform for innovative fabrics and components, is proposing to exhibit a selection of related materials free of charge, after validation of their proposals by an international jury.
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Elena Jasper will take over in April as exhibition director...
Elena Jasper will take over in April as exhibition director for Ispo Beijing and Ispo Shanghai at the main office of Messe München, taking the place of Paul März who left in December. The 33-year-old worked most recently as senior manager at Siemens in Munich, where she was responsible for ...
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Pinarello has announced it is pulling out of the Eurobike...
Pinarello has announced it is pulling out of the Eurobike trade show, saying during the last few years it has been shifting toward direct involvement with its customers. The Italian bicycle company will continue to present its new products via a collaborative presentation with Team Sky at the Giro D'Italia, ...
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The London Golf Show 2016 will take place on Aug....
The London Golf Show 2016 will take place on Aug. 26-28 at Bluewater, moving from the show's traditional schedule in October/November. The 2015 show welcomed 14,881 visitors over three days, representing a 15 percent increase on the previous year. The number of exhibitors showed a similar increase. The Golf Show ...
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A committee of the European Outdoor Group (EOG) is still...
A committee of the European Outdoor Group (EOG) is still looking at proposals by Messe München to hold its summer OutDoor show in Munich rather than Friedrichshafen. Meanwhile, the EOG and Messe Friedrichshafen have decided to move forward the dates of the show to June 18-21 in 2017, making it ...
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Bernd Kullmann, former chief executive at Deuter, made an impassioned...
Bernd Kullmann, former chief executive at Deuter, made an impassioned plea for more women to take the lead at outdoor companies, as he handed this year's Ispo Cup to Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, a famous Austrian mountaineer. She is the first woman to have climbed all 14 peaks of more than 8,000 ...
