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Odlo has announced a partnership with the Lausanne 2020 Organising...
Odlo has announced a partnership with the Lausanne 2020 Organising Committee of the Third Winter Youth Olympic Games, which will be held in Lausanne in January 2020. As an official partner of the Games, the Swiss brand will provide the 3,500 volunteers with uniforms in the colors of Lausanne 2020, ...
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Le Col has been chosen by Team Bahrain McLaren, the...
Le Col has been chosen by Team Bahrain McLaren, the pro cycling team, as its technical kit partner
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Alibaba Group has announced a new partnership with Manchester United...
Alibaba Group has announced a new partnership with Manchester United that will give the Chinese e-commerce giant exclusive rights to share club contents in China across the group's platforms
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Erreà Sport and the Norway Rugby Federation have signed a...
Erreà Sport and the Norway Rugby Federation have signed a three-year agreement that makes the Italian sportswear brand the new technical sponsor of the Norway national rugby team
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Intersport’s internet platform widens its reach
After doing its own thing in the area of e-commerce, as the Intersport organizations in France and some other countries are still doing, Intersport Germany has decided to take part in the international development of Intersport 2.0, the omni-channel digitalization strategy of Intersport International Corporation (IIC).
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China’s Topsports doesn’t disappoint with first results since IPO
After raising $1.01 billion in an initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange last month, Topsports International Holdings, the sports retailing arm of Belle International, published strong results for the six months ended on Aug. 31. Sales rose by 12.4 percent as compared to the year-ago period to ...
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New records for Alibaba’s Singles Day
The gross merchandise value (GMV) generated by Alibaba’s 11th Singles Day hit a record of 268.4 billion yuan renmimbi (€34.7bn-$38.3bn), eclipsing last year’s score by 26 percent, thanks in part to a longer pre-sales period, a larger assortment of discounted products, the extension of the festival to new markets outside ...
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Nike will boycott new Russian transport route
Nike has made a formal pledge, which has been publicized in the Russia media, to never transport its goods through the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in a bid to help protect the Arctic from environmental challenges. The NSR is a new alternative route for shipments between Asia and Europe, passing ...
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Adidas moves Speedfactory technology to Asia
By the end of this year, Adidas will be transferring the robotic Speedfactory technology that it has developed in cooperation with Oechsler to two of its Asian footwear suppliers to help increase the flexibility of the design and production process. With production times substantially cut there, Adidas says it will ...
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Nike stops with Amazon’s marketplace
A few days after the appointment of a new chief executive, John Donahoe, who previously ran eBay, the Swoosh announced that it will stop a pilot program, initiated in 2017, to sell selected products on the Amazon Retail marketplace. Nike justified the move with its “focus on elevating consumer experience ...
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Zalando is raising standards and fees
Zalando has taken a series of measures to make its delivery services more efficient, to increase revenues and profitability, and to reduce the environmental impact of its operations. One such measure is to terminate home pick-up for premium German customers who wish to return items. This service, which was part ...
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ArticleHaglöfs chief is now running Asics EMEA
Carsten Unbehaun, the German-born executive who became the chief executive of Haglöfs at the beginning of 2018, returned to the European subsidiary of the brand’s Japanese parent company, Asics Corp., as its new chief executive on Nov. 20. Unbehaun will continue to run Haglöfs until a successor is found.
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Asics incubates five more start-ups
Applications for the Asics Tenkan-Ten accelerator program were up by 60 percent this year, with candidates hailing from 38 countries. Asics has now selected five growth-stage start-ups to take part in its four-month program to meet their goals for both business and funding. Fun With Balls was founded in 2016 ...
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A Spanish tax probe against Nike
Spain’s Tax Agency (Agencia Tributaria) has filed a request against Nike’s subsidiary for the Iberian Peninsula, American Nike, for failure to pay certain corporate and sales taxes. American Nike could owe up to €14.6 million to the Spanish government, most of it for transfer pricing – that is, sales and ...
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Adidas partners with the Space Station
Adidas has announced a multi-year partnership with the International Space Station (ISS), the space laboratory managed by the U.S. Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (Casis). The partnership will explore breakthroughs to improve the future design and engineering of sporting products on and off Earth. For to station’s ...
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Russian football flips out over a flipped flag
The Russian Football Union (RFU) is criticizing Adidas for supplying poor-quality football clothing, according to a Russian newspaper, Sport Express, which says that the Russian national football team refused to play against Belgium and San Marino in November in the new kit designed and supplied by the company. Most players ...
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MIPS and POC back on track together
POC (we generally spell this company as Poc, the way it is pronounced, or Poc Sweden) and MIPS recently announced a renewed, deeper partnership that will have the companies working closely to develop new rotational-impact brain-protection systems for cycling and snowsports helmets. In 2009, POC was the first company to ...
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Down is more sustainable than alternatives, a study shows
A recent Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that studied the environmental impact of down versus polyester fill material found that natural down in jackets, sleeping bags and bedspreads has 18 times less of an impact on climate change than polyester fill. The LCA was commissioned by the International Down and Feather ...
