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Moncler makes several environmental and social pledges
Moncler has pledged to make its factories carbon neutral by next year and to be using nothing but renewable energy by 2023. The Italian luxury sportswear company will be recycling certified DIST (Down Integrity System and Traceability) down, and thereby cutting its related water needs by 70 percent, as of ...
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ArticleMoncler reports a 14% drop in Q3
The decline in Moncler’s revenues slowed down in the third quarter to a rate of 15 percent, or 14 percent in local currencies, falling to a level of €361.8 million. The management reported high and constantly improving growth in China. Without providing the details, the management said that other markets ...
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Decathlon invests €4 million in Cyclofix
Cyclofix, a French on-site bike repair service, has raised €5 million in an investment round including €4 million coming from Decathlon and €1 million from Via ID, a business accelerator that supports innovative start-ups in the field of new and sustainable mobility. Cyclofix, created by Alexis Zerbib in 2016, is ...
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Brooks will sponsor a virtual Houston Marathon
Brooks Running has returned to its former role as the official footwear and apparel sponsor of the Houston Marathon, taking the place of Skechers for the next three years. Instead of the traditional in-person Marathon Weekend of Events, the next race will be held as a series of Virtual Houston ...
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Babolat signs deals for the APT Padel Tour 2021
Babolat and the American Padel Tour (APT) have agreed a new deal that makes the French company’s Babolat Court ball and Jet Premura APT shoes the APT’s official balls and footwear. Working with Michelin, Babolat has developed dedicated shoes for the game of paddle tennis, which is becoming more international. ...
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Garmin releases new smartwatch dive computers
Garmin International has released the next generation of its Descent dive computers and will soon release its Descent T1 transmitter, which connects to computers through the SubWave sonar device. Designed as smartwatches, the Descent Mk2 and Descent Mk2i have displays that are 36 percent larger than those of their predecessors, ...
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ArticleAdidas may offload Reebok by March
Naming Anta Sports Products and VF Corp. as potential buyers for the brand, Germany’s usually well-informed Manager Magazin reports that the Adidas Group is planning to sell its Reebok division by next March. A spokesperson for the group said the company has a policy of not commenting on press rumors, ...
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Marcolin puts out high-tech Adidas snow goggles
As the new licensee for Adidas eyewear, the Marcolin Group has announced the availability of two Adidas Terrex Snow Goggle models, each with a different lens and both made in Italy. The E-SUNTM VARIATM lens on the SP0039 has a toric shape and adjusts in less than 40 seconds to ...
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Generally positive results for the Chinese sports brands
Chinese companies don’t publish detailed quarterly results, but all the four major public sporting goods companies except 361 Degrees had something positive to say in their preliminary operational updates for the third quarter of 2000, confirming the Chinese industry’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Li Ning Company reported an improvement ...
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Zimtstern and the Swiss Bike School start cooperation
Returning to its roots in Switzerland, Zimtstern, the German-based bike clothing specialist, has entered into a long-term cooperation with the Swiss Bike School. The riding instructors from the school will be wearing Zimtstern’s mountain bike clothing with immediate effect. A special Teacher Edition has been designed for this purpose, based ...
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Ternua and Lorpen to sponsor the FFCAM
Ternua and Lorpen will be sponsoring the French Federation of Alpine and Mountaineering Clubs (FFCAM). The federation’s members – who amount to about 100,000 people, belonging to some 420 clubs – will be enjoying discounts from both brands. The deal takes effect this autumn, with joint initiatives to follow. France ...
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ArticleUnder Armour is centralizing and digitalizing its European operations
Under Armour has decided against reopening its physical sales offices in Paris, Munich, Manchester and Barcelona, preferring instead to coordinate in-person and remote selling functions in the respective markets from a new, “futuristic” Digital Hub at its European headquarters in Amsterdam. The regional offices had been temporarily closed in the ...
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Bianchi to sponsor GreenEDGE Cycling
Bianchi has signed a multi-year deal with GreenEDGE Cycling, the Australian UCI WorldTour team – and the only such team in the Asia-Pacific region. Once the contract takes effect, in January 2021, GeenEDGE’s male and female cyclists will compete on Bianchi’s bicycles. Among the riders are Simon Yates, Michael Matthews ...
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Young ski racers join the “World Cup Warriors Team” of Reusch
Together with other top athletes sponsored by the Italian ski glove specialist, four up-and-coming ski racers will lead the new ”World Cup Warriors Team” of Reusch International. They are Clément Noël, Alice Robinson, Marco Odermatt and Lucas Pinheiro Braathen. They will be joined by well-known stars of recent years - ...
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Google could make new concessions to get Fitbit's takeover approved
According to Reuters, the deadline for the approval by European anti-trust authorities of Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit has been extended from Dec. 23 to Jan. 8 after Google expressed some readiness to change the concessions it would be willing to make. This came after receiving feedback from a ...
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News briefsMarchon to use Eastman’s sustainable acetate
Marchon Eyewear announced that it will be the first eyewear company to produce frames using Acetate Renew, a new, sustainable material produced by the American specialty chemical company Eastman. Unlike other sustainable alternatives, Acetate Renew is indistinguishable from classic acetate, according to Marchon. It plans to start producing acetate sunglasses ...
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News briefsYouTube is testing shopping features
According to a Bloomberg report, Google is testing the idea of turning YouTube into an e-commerce platform that would allow the purchase of items featured in videos. YouTube has been testing e-commerce features for a while. Late last year, it began testing Shopify software that enables creators to list as ...
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Bollé’s new lenses have computer-designed pigments
Bollé’s newest sun lens, the Volt +, heightens contrast and color to improve depth perception. Technicians at Bollé’s R&D laboratory, called Epic and located in the French city of Lyon, used computers to sort through some 20 million light-wavelength combinations, fine-tuning the lens’s pigments to produce the proper transition curve. ...
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Vibram teams up with Balenciaga on a footwear line
Collaborations with fashion brands are becoming more common in the athletic footwear sector. Vibram is introducing the “Toe” collection, a collaboration with Balenciaga on a shoe range made from recycled knit. The collaborative collection consists of two limited-edition sneaker styles and a high-heeled model. The shoes feature Vibram’s patented FiveFingers ...
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VF wants to be more agile and digital
After releasing VF Corporation’s figures for the second quarter ended on Sept. 30, the group’s management said it felt that the worst of the Covid-19 crisis is over by now, but pointed out that the crisis will be prolonged, that the situation is going to be “volatile,” and that the ...
