All Lifestyle & Fashion articles – Page 6
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News briefsMen’s fashion brand Strellson moves into e-sports
Ovation eSports AG, a Swiss e-sports organization based in Zurich, announced a collaboration with Swiss menswear brand Strellson. Ovation manages a team of young athletes who act as both content creators and influencers in the gaming industry. The collaboration spans the entire Ovation organization and its esports teams. As part ...
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ArticlePuma to host event to discuss solutions for a more sustainable fashion industry
Puma plans to discuss solutions to some of the fashion industry’s most pressing sustainability issues, including waste, materials and climate change, at an event in London on Sept. 6 that will be digitally streamed around the world. The “Conference of the People” will feature industry peers, activists, ...
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News briefsJD Sports Fashion divests Footasylum to Aurelius Group
JD Sports Fashion has exchanged contracts on July 29, 2022, to sell Footasylum Limited and its associated subsidiaries to Aurelius Group for £37.5 million (€44.7m). Aurelius is a pan-European private equity group with offices in Luxembourg, Munich, London, Stockholm, Madrid, Milan and Amsterdam and over 40 international portfolio companies. The ...
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News briefsSafilo Group joins The Fashion Pact
Safilo Group has joined The Fashion Pact, a global sustainability coalition of companies in the fashion and textile industry, the company announced earlier this week. According to its website presentation, The Fashion Pact was launched at the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France, in 2019 as a mission given to Kering ...
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News briefsFrasers Group buys stake in fashion marketplace MySale
Frasers Group, the owner of Sports Direct, has acquired a 28.7 percent stake in MySale, an off-price fashion marketplace headquartered in Sydney and listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. In a filing with the LSE, Frasers explained that the ...
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News briefsPuma returns to New York Fashion Week
After five years of absence, Puma will return to New York Fashion Week (NYFW) with Futrograde, an immersive sport and music runway show. The event is scheduled for Sept. 13 at 9 pm EST. The brand will showcase its men’s and women’s collections, including remixed retro signatures, upcoming collaborations, custom ...
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News briefsNew WFSGI webinar on regulatory trends in the sport and fashion industry
WFSGI and Compliance & Risks offer a webinar on regulatory trends. Stacey Bowers, manager global market access at Compliance & Risks and Charlotte Giudicelli, head of legal at WFSGI, will present the latest regulations and mandatory standards establishing labeling requirements for the sport and fashion industry. The webinar is scheduled ...
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News briefsOutdoor retailer McTrek enables German fashion chain Adler to enter sporting goods segment
Germany’s Adler Modemärkte is cooperating with McTrek Retail GmbH to enter the outdoor product market with its more than 130 Adler stores in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Adler Modemärkte AG, a company that had been strong with private labels in the past, went into insolvency in 2021 and was ...
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Skechers plans experiential store in Metaverse's fashion district
Lifestyle brand Skechers is entering the Metaverse. According to a company release, the Californian brand is the first to sign a lease in the fashion district of Decentraland. Michael Greenberg, president of Skechers, states that the new investment helps to explore “creative ways for our brand to engage with new ...
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Adidas sues Fashion Nova over Stan Smith sneaker
Adidas is once again taking on California-based apparel manufacturer Fashion Nova, accusing it of infringing on the trade dress of its Stan Smith sneaker. According to a lawsuit, Fashion Nova intentionally sold counterfeits, which features a classic tennis shoe with a white leather upper and the Three Stripes mark. The ...
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News briefsOn collaborates with fashion brand Loewe
Spanish fashion brand Loewe and On have launched a limited-edition capsule collection of footwear and apparel “for modern adventure.” Designed for urban and outdoor living, the collection includes Loewe editions of On’s Cloudventure and Cloudrock performance footwear for men and women. The shoes feature On’s Missiongrip rubber outsole and Speedboard ...
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Jan. 12/14 Short Stops: Castore - Doghammer - Frasers – JD Sports Fashion – Killer Instinct – Lululemon - Munich - Puma
Corporate: ++++ JD Sports Fashion reports that its executive chairman, Peter Cowgill, has disposed of 10,000,000 shares in the company at an average price of 213.2 cents, or a total of £2.13 million (€2.55m-$2.93m), reducing his stake to 0.19 percent of the capital +++ Schwan-Stabilo, the owner ...
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Nike’s website gets more visits than major fashion retailers
Nike continued to outperform various fashion retailers this year in terms of visits to its website on a global basis, according to an annual study by Semrush that uses Google data. Monthly visits to its websites averaged 120 million so far this year, 3.3 percent below the level of 2020, ...
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Boohoo launches a marketplace for fashion and sports goods
The Boohoo Group, the British fast-fashion online retailer that bought the brand name and the e-commerce operations of the Debenhams department store chain in January, is using it now to launch what it claims will be the biggest national online marketplace for sporting goods as well as fashion, cosmetics and ...
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Adidas inaugurates a circular-fashion program with ThredUp
Adidas has inaugurated a circular-fashion program, called “Choose to Give Back.” The German brand is inviting customers to earn rewards from its Creator’s Club by returning used apparel and accessories from any brand for resale or re-use. It works through a combination of Adidas’ Creator’s Club app and ThredUp’s Reseale-as-a-Service ...
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Oct. 5 Short Stops: ABG – Adidas – Arc’teryx - Benetton - Black Crows – JD Sports Fashion – Polartec - Stadium
Corporate: +++ With the company’s share price having risen above 1,000 pence, the board of JD Sports Fashion is proposing a five-for-one stock split, asking for its approval at a general meeting set for Oct. 28 +++ Stadium’s main owner, Eklöf Invest, is reportedly forming a joint venture ...
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Sept. 9 Short Stops: Candide - Decathlon – JD Sports Fashion – On – Signa - SMS
Corporate: +++ The shares of On Holding, parent company of On Running, will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ONON symbol on Wednesday, Sept. 13 +++ JD Sports Fashion is one of several potential investors in Missguided, an international online retailer of women’s clothing ...
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German webshop content provider sportshop.cloud acquired by Fashion Cloud
“Content is king,” says the homepage of sportshop.cloud, a Bavarian start-up that helps more than 500 sports and outdoor brands to collect, process and provide product data, text and content ready to use in their B2B websites. Operated by Zandy Media, which was only founded in February 2019, sportshop.cloud has ...
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July 17/19 Short Stops: Fanatics – FIFA - Frasers - Jack Wolfskin – JD Sports Fashion – Jordan - Macron - Masks – Nike – North Sails - Puma - PwC/U.K. - Uighurs
Corporate: +++ In a regulatory announcement, JD Sports Fashion reports that Peter Cowgill, executive chairman of the group, has bought 50,000 shares in the company, raising its total holdings to 3,942,934 shares representing 0.4% of its capital (and carrying a value of £34.09 million) ...
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Another long-serving director steps down at JD Sports Fashion
Another director is leaving the board of directors of JD Sports Fashion, following a statement made at its recent annual shareholders’ meeting that the composition of the board should “address the tenure of certain Board members who have served on the Board for longer than recommended within the Corporate Governance ...
