All Health & Wellness articles – Page 2
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Humanoo’s digital health platform raises $10 million
Humanoo, an automated B2B digital health platform used by corporations and health insurance companies founded in Berlin five years ago, has completed a $10 million round of funding involving new investors such as Sanitas and Verve and existing investors including Rocket Internet. Switzerland’s two largest health insurance companies, the CSS ...
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News briefsIcon Health & Fitness becomes iFit
Icon Health & Fitness has changed its corporate name to iFit Health & Fitness to assert the value of its proprietary connected fitness platform. In the words of the U.S. company’s founder, chairman and CEO, Scott Watterson, “we are elevating the name of our operating system.” This system channels live ...
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Decathlon France is testing an in-store “sport and health” corner
Decathlon is testing an interactive “educational corner” on sport and health, with a focus on connected devices, at its main Decathlon Campus in Villeneuve d’Ascq, in the north of France. The new space is meant to allow customers to benefit from personalized advice about how to improve their lifestyle in ...
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Mizuno accelerates on sustainability and healthy lifestyles
Back in 1991, when global environmental issues were just starting to attract attention, Mizuno launched its own global environmental conservation initiative, the Crew21 Project. The company is now committing to strengthening and expanding its existing program. To that end, from 2021 Mizuno will focus on three key areas of sustainability: ...
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Dish sues Peloton, Lululemon and Icon Health & Fitness over streaming technology
Connected fitness remains a hot issue in terms of intellectual property rights. Dish Network Corp. and its Sling TV division are suing Peloton Interactive, Lululemon Athletica and Icon Health & Fitness for allegedly infringing five patents for technology that improves the quality of video content on the internet through multi-bitrate ...
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ArticleSpanish campaign promotes sport as a study projects fewer jobs and higher healthcare costs
An association called España se Mueve – along with the High Sports Council, the autonomous community of Madrid and the Madrid city hall – has launched a campaign to help the Spanish sports sector weather the Covid-19 storm and promote sport among the populace for the sake of public health. ...
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News briefsFischer presents health and wellness webinars with Lynsey Dyer
Fischer Sports North America announced that a six-week workshop with Lynsey Dyer, the 37-year-old American ski professional sponsored by the Austrian company, will start on Nov. 9. Called the Showing Up Workshops, the online course is geared toward anyone looking to improve their mental and physical state for the coming ...
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Vans donates $1 million to tackle mental health concerns through creativity
Vans will donate a total of $1 million to 10 charities from around the world that work on programs focused on creativity as a way of coping with the stress factors that impact mental health and well-being. Each charity will receive $100,000 from The Vans Checkerboard Fund at Tides Foundation ...
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ArticleFunding round values Icon Health & Fitness at $7bn
Icon Health & Fitness got a valuation of more than $7 billion in a new $200 million round of financing which, according to Bloomberg, may be followed by a public offering of its shares in 2021. Founded 43 years ago in Utah with Mormon capital, Icon is the parent company ...
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Peloton sets up a health advisory council
Peloton has established a Health and Wellness Advisory Council to find ways to foster the “physical, mental and emotional wellbeing” of its subscribers worldwide. The council’s five members are doctors, researchers and other specialists in cardiovascular medicine, cardiopulmonary exercise, neurology and neuroscience. According to the company’s president, William Lynch, Peloton’s ...
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Johnson Health Tech suffered a net loss of 89.7 million...
Johnson Health Tech suffered a net loss of 89.7 million Taiwan dollars (€2.5m-$3.1m) in 2017 against a net profit of NT$19.5 million. Excluding foreign exchange and other extraordinary items, the company's net income declined by 82 percent to NY$130.6 million (€3.6m-$4.5m), as an expansion of 0.9 percentage points in the gross ...
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After rising by 4.4 percent in 2016, memberships in health...
After rising by 4.4 percent in 2016, memberships in health and fitness clubs grew by 4.0 percent to 60.0 million in 2017 as compared to 2016, according to an annual report released by Europe Active and Deloitte ahead of the Fibo trade show in Cologne. Germany continued to strengthen its ...
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Ortholite has hired Nino Gilarde, a health care industry veteran,...
Ortholite has hired Nino Gilarde, a health care industry veteran, as its chief financial officer
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Icon Health & Fitness has accused Nautilus of infringing on...
Icon Health & Fitness has accused Nautilus of infringing on its One Touch and Quick Speed trademarks through the buttons and the user manual of its TreadClimber. The lawsuit, filed in the Central District Court of Utah, also says that Nautilus has been making false claims about its Max Trainer, ...
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Intersport Germany is health-conscious, too
The German voluntary group is organizing a special FitGesund (fit & healthy) symposium, focusing on the topic of physical activity for the purpose of staying or becoming healthy, in an effort to conquer a new attractive segment for its retail members.Intersport is teaming up with some sporting goods brands, regional ...
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Nautilus is suing Icon Health & Fitness, charging that its...
Nautilus is suing Icon Health & Fitness, charging that its FreeStride Trainer infringes on four patents related to its own self-adjustable Variable Stride feature
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Johnson Health Tech suffered a drop in net income of...
Johnson Health Tech suffered a drop in net income of 90 percent to 272.5 million Taiwan dollars (€7.38m-$8.45m) for the past year on 3 percent higher revenues of NT 16.55 billion (€448.2m-$512.8m). The bottom line was pulled down by the non-recurrence of government subsidies of NT 1.7 billion (€46.0m-$52.7m). The ...
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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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Altra, the footwear brand owned by the Icon Health &...
Altra, the footwear brand owned by the Icon Health & Fitness Group, unveiled a new smart shoe at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week. The Altra IQ is powered by iFit, the Icon group's digital platform for fitness tracking and recommendations. A thin multi-sensor system is ...
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Runtastic, the Austrian digital health company snapped up by the...
Runtastic, the Austrian digital health company snapped up by the Adidas Group earlier this year, has come up with a new app offering customized, twelve-week workout plans intended to build strength and reduce body fat. The Results app features workouts using more than 120 instructional exercise videos and weekly nutrition ...
