All about events in the sporting goods industry – Page 52
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Taichung Bike Week, which took place in the heartland of...
Taichung Bike Week, which took place in the heartland of the Taiwanese bicycle manufacturing industry earlier this month, will be held two weeks earlier next year to fit more judiciously with the schedules of European as well as U.S. companies. Based on discussions with exhibitors and visitors, the organizers decided ...
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Attendance went up at the last round of the Performance...
Attendance went up at the last round of the Performance Days, the fibers & fabric shows held in Annecy and Munich in November. Compared with the November 2010 sessions, the total number of visitors at the two locations jumped by 21.4 percent to 969. They came from 21 countries. The ...
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KDM International, an organizer of international fairs based in Bologna,...
KDM International, an organizer of international fairs based in Bologna, is proposing the launch of two new consumer-oriented fairs for cycling and other sports in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Called Activesport and BikeExpo, they will be held next Apr. 26-29, coinciding with the existing Motobike Expo (sic) show. Last ...
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The summer edition of Ösfa, the Austrian sporting goods trade...
The summer edition of Ösfa, the Austrian sporting goods trade show, will take place four weeks earlier than usual next year, running from July 22 through July 24. At its latest session on Aug. 21-23, the fair recorded 70 exhibitors and the number of its visitors declined to 1,756 from ...
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Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, says that 37...
Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, says that 37 of its member companies will show in its Spanish Outdoor Village at the next Ispo fair, running from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1. Afydad and the Sports Unlimited fair in Valencia, which has signed a new partnership with the association ...
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The London Golf Show welcomed 14,250 visitors at its recent...
The London Golf Show welcomed 14,250 visitors at its recent session on Nov. 11-13, up from 10,500 a year ago, when the consumer-oriented event was held at different dates and at a different venue. The number of exhibitors remained the same at 120. The show helped to raise about £5,000 ...
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The British Golf Industry Association, which represents the U.K.'s industry...
The British Golf Industry Association, which represents the U.K.'s industry of golf products and services, has announced that it will be returning to the PGA Merchandise Show in January 2012. This year's presence at the show was deemed a success, with the BGIA's business lounge being well-used among members in ...
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The second edition of the European Outdoor Forum, held in...
The second edition of the European Outdoor Forum, held in Annecy on Oct. 11-12, brought together more than 200 leading executives from the outdoor industry for two days of intense discussions and presentations. With a more international and interactive format than last year, the forum tackled many topical issues, from ...
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The Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City continues to...
The Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City continues to expand into other categories. As at its summer session in August, it is moving more forcefully into the action sports segment at its winter session, scheduled for next Jan. 19-22. Burton Snowboards is going to exhibit there for the first ...
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Four hundred people, including business leaders, celebrities and surfing legends,...
Four hundred people, including business leaders, celebrities and surfing legends, attended the annual Waterman's Ball organized on Oct. 6 by EuroSIMA, the European boardsports industry manufacturers' group. Held at the Hossegor Casino in France, the gala dinner had a “60s Rockabilly” dress code and raised money for EuroSIMA's sustainability projects. ...
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Ispo Munich is again setting new milestones. Four months before...
Ispo Munich is again setting new milestones. Four months before it opens its doors next Jan. 29, the number of registered exhibitors has already grown by 2.8 percent as compared to this time one year ago, and the rented exhibit space has risen by 3.2 percent. The outdoor section, in ...
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Messe München was going to rename Golf Europe as Ispo...
Messe München was going to rename Golf Europe as Ispo Golf, but then it decided to cancel this year's event because of continued losses due to insufficient backing from the industry and a lack of consensus about the dates. Messe München has now announced to exhibitors that it has sold ...
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The number of visitors to the French bicycle fair, Salon...
The number of visitors to the French bicycle fair, Salon du Cycle, increased by 73 percent to 69,251 last month, as compared to the last edition in 2009, which took place in the midst of the economic crisis. The number of exhibitors nearly doubled to almost 500. Some 2,000 trade ...
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Andy Rubin, chief executive of Pentland Brands, was one of...
Andy Rubin, chief executive of Pentland Brands, was one of 25 top executives from the U.K. who accompanied British Prime Minister David Cameron on a trade mission to Russia. One of Pentland's brands, Berghaus, is entering the country through a distributor (more in our Outdoor Industry Compass).
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Sporaltec, a group of French sports and leisure companies aided...
Sporaltec, a group of French sports and leisure companies aided by public authorities near the Alps, is joining forces with Numélic, a similar group of companies involved in digital technologies, in a program to share knowledge and experiences about older people
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A total of 36 companies affiliated with Afydad, the Spanish...
A total of 36 companies affiliated with Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, will participate in the Spanish Outdoor Village at next year's Ispo Munich show. In collaboration with Icex, the Spanish export promotion agency, Afydad is also going to organize trade missions next year to Dubai, Qatar and ...
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More than 23,000 visitors attended Interbike 2011 in Las Vegas...
More than 23,000 visitors attended Interbike 2011 in Las Vegas in September. More than 11,000 buyers attended, representing almost 4,000 stores; over 1,300 buyers were from outside the U.S. The two-day Outdoor Demo, held Sept. 12-13 outside Las Vegas, let riders test out the latest products, and seminars discussed such ...
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With Golf Europe canceled for this year, BSI, the German...
With Golf Europe canceled for this year, BSI, the German sporting goods industry association, has decided to organize a series of Golf Buying Days for German retailers. Each running for three days, they are going to take place at three different locations near Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Munich between Oct. 15 ...
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+++ Andy Rubin, chief executive of Pentland Brands, was part...
+++ Andy Rubin, chief executive of Pentland Brands, was part of a delegation of 25 top U.K. executives who accompanied British Prime Minister David Cameron on a trade mission to Russia +++
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For the first time ever, Sport 2000 Austria has organized...
For the first time ever, Sport 2000 Austria has organized its own in-house trade show. Altogether 70 brands offered their collections to visitors from the pool of 203 affiliated retailers in Austria (not counting the retailers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, which are another 59). The buying group ...
