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Kempa will outfit the German TV Rottenburg volleyball team from...
Kempa will outfit the German TV Rottenburg volleyball team from the 2017/18 season
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VF Corp. has announced the release of its first-ever Animal...
VF Corp. has announced the release of its first-ever Animal Derived Materials Policy, which includes the commitment to progressively ban the use of fur, angora or exotic leather in its brands' products. The policy has been developed in partnership with The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society ...
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Under Armour grows by more than 50% abroad
As expected, Under Armour reported its first loss since going public, although it was lower than what analysts had expected. It amounted to $2,272,000 for the period compared with a net profit of $19,180,000 in the same quarter a year ago. The gross margin fell by 0.7 percentage points to ...
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Adidas projects continued expansion in China
The Adidas Group is projecting another year of double-digit sales expansion in Greater China as it invests to build up a network of 12,000 Adidas stores by 2020, the company said during a trip to China by Kasper Rorsted, its chief executive since October.The brand currently has more than 10,000 ...
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Columbia is worried about its U.S. clients
Due to the unstable situation in the U.S. retail market, Columbia Sportswear has slightly downgraded its guidance for the full financial year. It predicts that sales will gain 3 percent and that net profit will range from $192 million to $199 million, compared with sales of $2.38 billion and earnings ...
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Amer ramps up omni-channel investment
Amer Sports is ramping up investments in its omni-channel strategy to deal with changes that have weakened the U.S. market. The group suffered a decline in underlying operating profit for the first quarter and its earnings were hit by unfavorable hedging rates.Heikki Takala, Amer's chief executive, explained in a conference ...
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Sequential Brands has appointed Karen Murray as its new chief...
Sequential Brands has appointed Karen Murray as its new chief executive officer. Most recently, Murray served as president of VF Sportswear, a wholly-owned subsidiary of VF Corp. She replaces Yehuda Shmidman, who is stepping down from his position and as a member of the board of directors. Murray joined VF ...
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The Girona football club and Umbro have agreed that the...
The Girona football club and Umbro have agreed that the British brand will outfit the Catalan team for at least two years starting with the 2017/18 season, the club announced last week. This could turn into an opportunity for Umbro to appear in La Liga, since Girona FC is currently ...
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The German football league has astonished football specialists by teaming...
The German football league has astonished football specialists by teaming up with Derbystar as the official ball supplier for the Bundesliga and the Bundesliga 2 from the 2018/19 season and for four years, replacing Adidas. Derbystar is an established German brand that has been owned since 1991 by Select, a ...
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Joma is the official supplier of the umpires, line judges...
Joma is the official supplier of the umpires, line judges and ball kids at the Barcelona Open tennis tournament, which started on April 21
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Rose Lavell, the N° 1 draft pick in the National...
Rose Lavell, the N° 1 draft pick in the National Women's Soccer League of the U.S. is the first female football player sponsored by New Balance
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Inditex says that its sports apparel line, launched three years...
Inditex says that its sports apparel line, launched three years ago in its Zara stores, has failed to meet expectations, but it’s not clear whether the group is taking it out of the market
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To celebrate Earth Day, which was on April 22, Adidas...
To celebrate Earth Day, which was on April 22, Adidas said it will launch three new models of tennis shoes on May 10 that are made with plastic waste thrown into the ocean. The initiative is part of the brand's new two-year partnership with Parley for the Oceans. Each of ...
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The Adidas Group has teamed up with Carbon, a U.S....
The Adidas Group has teamed up with Carbon, a U.S. start-up company, to make running shoes featuring midsoles produced with light and oxygen, which may be manufactured on a large scale. The first batch of 5,000 shoes to be made as part of the Futurecraft 4D project should hit the ...
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VF Corp. is integrating its Lucy brand of activewear and...
VF Corp. is integrating its Lucy brand of activewear and its 44 single-brand stores in the U.S. into the operations of The North Face
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Under Armour is laying off about two dozen employees of...
Under Armour is laying off about two dozen employees of Endomondo, its connected fitness operation in Copenhagen, according to the Baltimore Sun
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Icebreaker has a new European head of wholesale, Udo Heyder....
Icebreaker has a new European head of wholesale, Udo Heyder. He comes from VF Corp. , where he spent nine years as area manager for Germany and Central Europe and then three years as international sales manager for Smartwool. Based at Icebreaker's European office in Munich, Heyderreplaces Ibrahim Can, who ...
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With Martin Schneider set to retire as chief information officer...
With Martin Schneider set to retire as chief information officer of VF Corp. at the end of this year, Sandra Harris, vice president of global business technology, will take over his position
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Decathlon has launched yet another private label, Subea, for underwater...
Decathlon has launched yet another private label, Subea, for underwater sports, from scuba diving to snorkeling and spear fishing. The products are developed in the port of Hendaye, on the Basque coast, which is already the head office for the Tribord brand of water sports products. The French retailer has ...
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Skechers USA has launched a women's sneakers line called “You...
Skechers USA has launched a women's sneakers line called “You by Skechers,” an athleisure collection which combines the technologies from the brand's performance shoes with the lifestyle needs of modern young women. To promote the collection, Skechers has partnered with Koya Webb, a fitness model and vegan advocate; Sophie Jaffe, ...