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A new Berlin-based sports brand, Winqs, is going fully green
Winqs, a new brand of footwear, apparel and accessories that aims to cover many sports categories, hopes to replace traditional materials with much more expensive yet fully sustainable ones, without sacrificing performance or raising prices too much. The Berlin-based brand told the Swedish trade paper Sportfack that all of its ...
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VF executive takes over Eagle Creek
Travis Campbell, a former consultant with Andersen and a former Deloitte consultant who had been in charge of emerging brands at VF Corp. until a few weeks ago, has acquired all the assets of Eagle Creek, a daypack and travel luggage brand founded in Colorado in 1975 that VF took ...
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Online sales help Björn Borg to book a record Q2
Strong online sales and savings in operating costs launched in 2020 helped Björn Borg to book the best second quarter in the Swedish company’s history. Total net revenues for the three months ended June 30 reached 162.8 million (€16.0m-$18.9m), an increase of 10.0 percent from the year-earlier period. The company’s ...
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Whoop moves into smart apparel
Whoop, the growing fitness subscription service operating out of Boston, is releasing a line of smart apparel that monitors athletic performance. Whoop Body incorporates a set of sensors, called Any-Wear Technology, that connects to the simultaneously released Whoop 4.0, the latest edition of the company’s app-based, round-the-clock digital coaching service. ...
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Golden Goose celebrates 20 years with a skate bowl in Venice
According to FashionNetwork.com, Golden Goose recently celebrated its 20th anniversary in Venice. For the occasion the Italian brand of distressed sneakers and streetwear brand took a 13-year-old wooden skate bowl – kept until then inside a former cinema in Milan – and had it floated to the Venetian lagoon, where ...
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Columbia readies launch of its new metallic-dot insulating lining, Omni-Heat Infinity
Columbia Sportswear has announced a patented, NASA-inspired entry in its Omni-Heat line of insulating linings. Its new Omni-Heat Infinity insulation, says the brand, is a “gold metallic lining material in a pattern scientifically engineered to optimize warmth and breathability.” Its gold metallic dots “reflect and retain natural body heat […] ...
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Callaway and acquired brands perform better than expected
Callaway Golf Company has upgraded its guidance for the third quarter and the full financial year after mitigating some supply issues and registering higher-than-expected results at TravisMatthews, Jack Wolfskin and Topgolf in July and August. The group said it has successfully shifted some production out of Vietnam to avoid Covid-related ...
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VF board member steps down, reportedly over her views on racism
VF Corp. announced that Veronica Wuu has decided to step down as one of the 12 members of the group’s board of directors, pointing out that this was not the result of any disagreement on any matter relating to VF’s operations, policies or practices. Wuu had joined the board in ...
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Asics invests in the training of fitness coaches
Asics Ventures has made an investment in Deportare Technologies, a Japanese firm that operates an online fitness academy that is supposed to train fitness coaches, certifying them as “healthcare catalysts.” The company was set up in July 2020 by Yuma Takashita, the founder of the exclusive Deportare Club in Tokyo, ...
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ArticleExpanded: On Running to be valued at over $5 bn
Providing further details about its planned public offering, On Holding said it plans to raise net proceeds of around $448.6 million by offering a total of 31.1 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange at a unit price of between $18.00 and $20.00. Out of the total package being ...
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News briefsUnder Armour partners with El Corte Inglés for its new sports-focused store in Barcelona
Under Armour has opened a new 500-square-meter space in the centrally located department store of El Corte Inglés at Portal del Angel in Barcelona, which is being remodeled to focus on sports brands, with UA acting as the main partner. It also hosts the first Nike Live store in Europe, ...
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Out Of comes out with electronic photochromic sunglasses
An Italian startup, Out Of, is launching its first collection of sunglasses for cycling and other outdoor sports equipped with an award-winning lens, called Iris, that adapts to the ambient light in less than a second, using a small solar cell that powers a microchip and a special liquid crystal ...
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Symphony Holdings grows by 82%
Symphony Holdings has reported an 82 percent increase in revenues to 221.9 million Hong Kong dollars (€24.1m-$28.6m) for the first half of this year. Branding revenues from Arena products, licenses for Pony and Skins, and the healthcare business jumped by 155 percent to HK109.8 million (€11.9m-$14.1m). Symphony has a joint ...
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Spain’s Zcebra is the first European pickleball supplier
According to Palco23, Xiana López has invested €52,000 into Zcebra, the company she founded at the start of this year. Headquartered in Guadarrama, near Madrid, the Spanish company is Europe’s only producer of pickleball paddles, balls, nets and apparel, serving 22 of the continent’s countries. López and a graphic designer ...
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Craft sponsors the Rock ‘n’ Rolla Running Series
Craft Sportswear has signed up as the official footwear partner of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Running Series, an international series of mid-distance running events owned by the Ironman Group. To launch the partnership, Craft has organized three virtual challenges with three distances in collaboration with the Humana Rock ‘n’ Roll ...
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ManU runs out of Ronaldo shirts
The Manchester United football club is suffering a shortage of replica shirts, according to The Daily Mail, because of the closure of one or more Vietnamese factories that work for Adidas, due to Covid. The English club has sold out the shirt of Cristiano Ronaldo, the 36-year-old former captain of ...
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New Balance airs campaign for the London Marathon
New Balance has launched a campaign intended to “democratize” running ahead of the Oct. 3 Virgin Money London Marathon. The campaign carries the “Rep Yours” tag. It features two runners who tell their individual stories of involvement in the sport through a London club, “Run the Boroughs,” that was formed ...
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New co-branded UYN-Bugatti line to be launched in the autumn
UYN, the Italian brand of performance clothing whose name stands for “Unleash Your Nature” has signed a partnership with the luxury car specialist Bugatti for a compact line of co-branded clothing and footwear. UYN, which is part of the Trerè Innovatio group, will produce all the 11 items of the ...
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News briefsUYN steps into road cycling footwear with the Naked Shoe
With its “Naked Shoe,” a new ultra-light product that is supposed to give the user a sock-like or barefoot feeling, the Italian brand UYN (Unleash Your Nature) has made a first step into the world of road cycling footwear. The new shoe, which carries a recommended retail price of roughly ...
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Brooks veteran will lead True Motion into the U.K.
Hamish Stewart, who has been working with Brooks Running for more than 20 years, has become U.K. country manager for True Motion, a German running shoe start-up. He will be assisted by another former running shoe veteran, Richard Outterside, as account manager. Stewart was instrumental in building up Brooks’ European ...
