All about events in the sporting goods industry – Page 43
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The Adidas Group, which is targeting an annual turnover of...
The Adidas Group, which is targeting an annual turnover of €500 million in the outdoor sector, was ranked as the 8th most sustainable company in the world in an authoritative chart made public on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Compiled every year by Corporate Knights, ...
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Like a year ago, buyers from nearly 300 stores paid...
Like a year ago, buyers from nearly 300 stores paid a visit to Annecy Showroom Avant-Première, the early trade show organized by Sportair in Annecy for the autumn/winter 2014/15 season last Jan. 13 and 14. A total of 60 brands showed their collections, and ten of them were new exhibitors: ...
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Fibo, the international fitness show scheduled to take place in...
Fibo, the international fitness show scheduled to take place in Cologne next April 3-6, has expanded the number of categories eligible for the annual Fibo Innovation Award from three to five. The candidates must apply by Jan. 13 at the latest, and their products or services must have been on ...
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Black Diamond president and chief executive, Peter Metcalf, will give...
Black Diamond president and chief executive, Peter Metcalf, will give a keynote speech at the annual Outdoor Retailer Winter Market (ORWM), which will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Jan. 22-25. Alongside Metcalf's presentation, the event will also include the presentation of the 2014 Pioneering Woman Award and ...
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The Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG) will use an application developed...
The Scandinavian Outdoor Group (SOG) will use an application developed by Hark Solutions to guide buyers at the Ispo Munich show through the offerings presented by its members in the Scandinavian Village at the show (Hall A6). Designed for use with tablet computers, PCs and Macs, the app can be ...
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Pádel, the typically Spanish racquet sport, will have its space...
Pádel, the typically Spanish racquet sport, will have its space at Ispo Munich. It will also have a first dedicated fair in Spain. It will be held on Ifema's fairgrounds in Madrid next March 20-23, coinciding with the well-established Madrigolf show.
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Reed Exhibitions, which organizes the international Fibo fair of fitness...
Reed Exhibitions, which organizes the international Fibo fair of fitness products, and the European Health & Fitness Association (EHFA) are going to hold the first European Health & Fitness Forum on April 2, 2014 in Cologne, the day before the trade show. It's going to be a summit meeting of ...
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Erima has signed a sponsorship deal with Günther Weidlinger, an...
Erima has signed a sponsorship deal with Günther Weidlinger, an Austrian Olympic runner
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APO, the French supplier of snowboards, has signed up as...
APO, the French supplier of snowboards, has signed up as exclusive partner of a snowpark at La Clusaz, in the French Alps, for two winter seasons
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Messe München has publicly announced its plans to start a...
Messe München has publicly announced its plans to start a summer trade show in China in 2015, in response to demands by participants from the sporting goods industry in its ten-year-old Ispo Beijing show and in last June's Ispo Academy in Shanghai, where almost 250 industry representatives were on hand ...
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Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, will take advantage...
Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, will take advantage of the Ispo Munich show at the end of January to invite buyers from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Peru. The action has the support of the Spanish export promotion agency, Icex, and of Messe München, organizer of ...
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Inov-8 has posted a video on YouTube in connection with...
Inov-8 has posted a video on YouTube in connection with its 10th anniversary where its founder, Wayne Edy, tells some interesting parts of the story of his company
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The European Cyclists' Federation (ECF) has picked Taipei, the capital...
The European Cyclists' Federation (ECF) has picked Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, as the venue for its annual ECF Velo-city Global Conference in 2016. The conference was held in Vienna earlier this year, drawing more than 1,400 delegates while thousands of people participated in side events throughout the city. The ...
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Sportair is launching Bikexpo, a new B2B bike fair for...
Sportair is launching Bikexpo, a new B2B bike fair for the French market, that will be held for the first time on Sept. 9-10, 2014 in Lyon at the same time and the same venue as Sport-Achat, its well-established generic sports trade show. The organizers point out that many distributors ...
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Decision-makers from governments and international organizations embraced sport as an...
Decision-makers from governments and international organizations embraced sport as an investment for society when they met at the 7th edition of the Peace and Sport International Forum in Monte Carlo, on Nov. 6-8. Throughout the Forum, they expressed a shift in their vision of sport, stating that instead of being ...
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Soccerex, a global convention that was due to held in...
Soccerex, a global convention that was due to held in Rio de Janeiro from Nov. 30 to Dec. 5, just before the final draw for next year's World Cup of football, has been cancelled for unclear reasons. After four years of preparation, it would have drawn some 4,500 decision-makers in ...
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Elan is encouraging children to design their own skis on...
Elan is encouraging children to design their own skis on the internet, supporting the “SnowKidz” initiative of the International Ski Federation (FIS) after staging a major event for them on an artificial snow slope overlooking Bernardin Bay on Slovenia's coast. The “White Circus by the Sea” was held in partnership ...
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Ispo is going to dedicate the entire Hall C1 to...
Ispo is going to dedicate the entire Hall C1 to health and fitness at its next Jan. 26-29 session. Besides suppliers of fitness equipment and related products, the hall will accommodate companies involved in indoor cycling, running, functional training, nutrition and the prevention of diseases. A wide range of seminars ...
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The number of visitors to the latest Golf Europe fair,...
The number of visitors to the latest Golf Europe fair, which ended on Oct. 1, increased to a total of 2,144 as compared to 1,968 a year ago. They came to Augsburg in Germany from 29 countries to meet with 122 exhibitors. The exhibitors were eight more than last year ...
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Geza Maklary of Euroglobal Trading has succeeded in putting together...
Geza Maklary of Euroglobal Trading has succeeded in putting together a group of important exhibitors for the first edition of Sports Gear Sourcing, including Sympatex, Cordura, Outlast, Polygiene and Thermore. They will show their products in Annecy, France on Dec. 17-18 at the new event that takes the place of ...
