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Rapha, the London-based cycling clothing brand, is launching its first...
Rapha, the London-based cycling clothing brand, is launching its first custom clothing program, which allows customers to personalize products from the brand's core collection. Customers can create their bespoke cycling kit online, and this will be printed on demand and delivered within six weeks. The program is made possible by ...
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Chiemsee, the German brand of boardsports clothing, has granted a license for...
Chiemsee, the German brand of boardsports clothing, has granted a license for footwear to another German company, MCB. Directed by Markus Bennemann, MCB has already made the second shoe collection for Chiemsee. The first collection for spring/summer 2019 is currently being delivered to the trade. For winter 2019/20, MCB recently presented the new ...
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Adidas is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Predator football...
Adidas is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Predator football boot with three limited-edition boots and a commercial featuring Zinedine Zidane and David Beckham
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Keller Sports, the German retailer for premium sports products, won...
Keller Sports, the German retailer for premium sports products, won the “Royal Class” award as the best online retailer in Germany from Internet World Business magazine. The new award recognizes a company's excellence as both a pure player and a multi-channel retailer. Keller was praised for a “perfect” product range ...
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Asics has teamed up with iRewind to provide the runners...
Asics has teamed up with iRewind to provide the runners of its 10K race in London this summer with video footage of their performance. Based in Zurich, iRewind has developed a system that can capture footage, upload it to a cloud server, edit it automatically in accordance with previously set ...
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Lacoste has signed an apparel endorsement deal with Daniil Medvedev,...
Lacoste has signed an apparel endorsement deal with Daniil Medvedev, the current number 15 in the ATP rankings for men's tennis. He will be wearing Lacoste as of this year's Miami Open, scheduled for March 18-31. Medvedev's previous sponsor was Lotto. This is actually Lacoste's second deal with the Moscovite, ...
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Leki, the German brand of poles, folding chairs and accessories...
Leki, the German brand of poles, folding chairs and accessories for skiing, trekking and trail running, has signed a two-year endorsement deal with Xavier Thevenard, the 31-year-old French trail runner. No one else has ever won Europe's “Triple Crown” – Camp Cedar Cliff (CCC), Traces des Ducs de Savoie (TDS) ...
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Adidas has announced a multiyear partnership with Alex Bregman. The...
Adidas has announced a multiyear partnership with Alex Bregman. The baseball star from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who plays for the Houston Astros, will be featured in upcoming Adidas brand marketing campaigns. The player will also collaborate on the creation of future baseball products. Bregman made his debut in Major League ...
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Callaway Golf has announced that Francesco Molinari has joined its...
Callaway Golf has announced that Francesco Molinari has joined its Tour Professional Staff. Molinari, a native of Turin, Italy, is currently ranked as the 10th player in the world. In 2018, he won his first major at The Open Championship. Last year, he also won the BMW PGA Championship and ...
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Reebok's new online campaign for the launch of its “sole...
Reebok's new online campaign for the launch of its “sole fury” sneaker collection for the 2019 spring/summer season has posted short Instagram films – under the hashtag SplitForm – of celebrities wearing the sneakers
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Puma had no comment on a report that it will...
Puma had no comment on a report that it will replace Nike as the supplier of the match ball for the first-division Spanish football tournaments of La Liga through the 2021-22 season for an amount of €5 million
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Rip Curl and the World Surf League (WSL) have worked...
Rip Curl and the World Surf League (WSL) have worked out a three-year renewal for two events on the WSL Championship Tour (CT), the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach and the Meo Rip Curl Pro Portugal
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After three years with Poc, the Swedish Cycle Federation has...
After three years with Poc, the Swedish Cycle Federation has launched a new sponsorship agreement with Pearl Izumi, which will provide clothing for the athletes competing in seven cycling disciplines
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Under Armour (UA)'s social compliance program has been accredited by...
Under Armour (UA)'s social compliance program has been accredited by the Fair Labor Association (FLA), the multi-stakeholder organization that monitors labor standards in order to promote and protect workers' rights and improve conditions in the workplace. The accreditation follows a multi-year examination of a company's labor compliance program that supports ...
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Adidas has announced in a tweet that its sponsored players...
Adidas has announced in a tweet that its sponsored players on the winning team in the upcoming 2019 Fifa Women's World Cup, starting in France on June 7, will get the same performance bonus as their male counterparts. The announcement was made just hours after it was revealed that the ...
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Good quarter for Nike
Nike delivered a strong third quarter for the three-month period ended Feb. 28, particularly in terms of sales growth in Europe and China. On a currency-neutral basis, the Nike brand's sales went up by 12 percent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and by 24 percent in Greater ...
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A record Ebit margin for Adidas
The Adidas Group reported last week a 20 percent increase in net income to €1,709 million from continuing operations for 2018. Excluding losses from discontinued operations – which, as a result of last year's divestiture of Rockport, declined last year to €5 million from €254 million the year before – ...
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Shankland will lead the Adidas Group’s operations
The 47-year-old Australian native, who has been with Adidas for 22 years, took the place of Gil Steyaert on the executive board of the Adidas Group at the beginning of this week to be charge of global operations. Steyart, a 56-year-old Frenchman who has been sitting on the board for ...
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Anta puts pressure on Amer’s shareholders
Changing the cards, Mascot-Bidco, the investment vehicle set up by a consortium of investors led by Anta Sports Products for the takeover of Amer Sports, has given 4 PM Finnish time tomorrow as the deadline for obtaining pledges for at least 90 percent of Amer's shares. It had previously extended ...
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Anta’s sales and profits surge
Anta accelerated its expansion in 2018 with a sales increase of 44.4 percent to 24.1 billion yuan renminbi (€3.2bn-$3.6bn), which led to an unprecedented profit for the Chinese group. The company's gross margin firmed up by 3.2 percentage points to 52.6 percent, while the operating margin inched down by 0.2 ...
