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Icon Health & Fitness has filed a lawsuit in California...

2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Icon Health & Fitness has filed a lawsuit in California against Octane Fitness of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, and Nellie’s Exercise Equipment of Corona, California. The action alleges that the two companies are infringing on two patents belonging to Icon: one for an exercise machine control system released in April 1992 ...

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Burkhard Lüben, 51, returns to Johnson Health Tech to act...

2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Burkhard Lüben, 51, returns to Johnson Health Tech to act as European sales director.

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Icon Health & Fitness has filed a patent infringement lawsuit...

2008-02-25T00:00:00Z

Icon Health & Fitness has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Texas against Horizon Fitness and its parent company, Johnson Health Tech of Taiwan, Vision Fitness and Matrix Fitness Systems for allegedly infringing on three of its patents. The patents concerned are for its Exercise Machine Control System (patent # ...

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Icon Health & Fitness has been sued for patent infringement...

2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

Icon Health & Fitness has been sued for patent infringement by Cybergym Research, a Texas-based company. The lawsuit alleges that Icon’s NordicTrack SL 760 iFit recumbent exercise bike, the NordicTrack C 2420 iFit treadmill and at least six other fitness machines infringe on its technology patents for “Force Script Implementation ...

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Icon Health & Fitness, which has not been doing well...

2007-02-09T00:00:00Z

Icon Health & Fitness, which has not been doing well in Germany, is shutting down its German subsidiary in Düsseldorf. It was headed by Mark Richards, responsible also for the UK and recently promoted as European senior operations manager. Instead, the American fitness brand will work from July 2007 through ...

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Icon Health & Fitness’ consolidation of some of its production...

2007-01-23T00:00:00Z

Icon Health & Fitness’ consolidation of some of its production in Utah will result in about 250 people losing their jobs in mid-March, when the company will close its factory in Clearfield and fold them into its facility in Logan. Icon is eliminating a total of 450 positions at its ...

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Icon Health & Fitness has applied for a patent on...

2007-01-08T00:00:00Z

Icon Health & Fitness has applied for a patent on a system to integrate games into its fitness products, such as a GameFit console attached to its ProForm 20.0 elliptical, which allows the exerciser to play a “Fat Blocker” or a “Calorie Destroyer” game as a workout activity.

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Nordica and Icon Health & Fitness are again in a...

2006-12-22T00:00:00Z

Nordica and Icon Health & Fitness are again in a legal dispute over trademark rights, as Nordica filed a complaint in a U.S. court stating that Icon breached a 3-year-old contract by continuing to pursue the NordicTrack trademark for certain items in some countries. In a 2003 settlement it was ...

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Icon Health & Fitness filed last month a lawsuit against...

2006-08-29T00:00:00Z

Icon Health & Fitness filed last month a lawsuit against a rival company, Keys Fitness, and its subsidiary Keys Backyard LP, alleging that Keys infringed on its patent for home exercise devices. The complaint also claims that Keys is infringing on Icon’s Weslo trademark for items like exercise machines, skateboards ...

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Johnson Health Tech has promoted its managing director in Germany,...

2006-02-28T00:00:00Z

Johnson Health Tech has promoted its managing director in Germany, Mathias Kiehn, as vice president of commercial sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In the USA, its Horizon Fitness subsidiary has made several appointments at its U.S. headquarters in DeForest, Wisconsin. Among others, Chris Wells, who comes from ...

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The French edition of Men’s Health has been stopped due...

2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

The French edition of Men’s Health has been stopped due to insufficient circulation.

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Health Magazine has given the “Best of Fitness” award to...

2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

Health Magazine has given the “Best of Fitness” award to illumiNITE’s “Aspira Softshell” jacket for women.

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In its 2nd quarter ended Dec. 3, 2005, Icon Health...

2006-01-23T00:00:00Z

In its 2nd quarter ended Dec. 3, 2005, Icon Health & Fitness posted a net loss of $5,885,000, as compared to a loss of $18,051,000 in the year-ago period. Sales dropped by 6.4 percent to $265.4 million. For the 1st half of its financial year, Icon reported a net loss ...