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    Fifa has appointed Simon Thomas, the former chief executive of...

    2019-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Fifa has appointed Simon Thomas, the former chief executive of Team Marketing, as its new chief commercial officer, to replace Philippe Le Floc'h, who is leaving football's regulatory body for personal reasons

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    Adidas has filed an opposition to J.Crew's trademark application for...

    2019-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Adidas has filed an opposition to J.Crew's trademark application for a design of five parallel stripes, to be used on apparel and on such accessories as business card cases and various kinds of bags. The Trial and Appeals Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has suspended the application ...

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    Fitbit, the San Francisco-based purveyor of fitness trackers, says it...

    2019-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Fitbit, the San Francisco-based purveyor of fitness trackers, says it has struck a deal with the Health Promotion Board (HPB) of Singapore to use its products to realize the national health agency's aspirations for public health. The project, Live Healthy SG, fits within the government's Smart Nation initiative. Although Singapore's ...

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    While confirming its intention to impose an additional punitive 10...

    2019-08-29T00:00:00Z

    While confirming its intention to impose an additional punitive 10 percent import duty on many still unspecified footwear categories and other products originating in China, the administration of President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 13 a postponed implementation for some of the products from Sept. 1 to Dec. 15. There ...

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    Allyson Felix, winner of nine Olympic medals in track, has...

    2019-08-29T00:00:00Z

    Allyson Felix, winner of nine Olympic medals in track, has persuaded Nike to extend the maternity protections in her sponsorship deal from 12 to 18 months, possibly effecting a change in Nike's general policy on the issue

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    Skechers and Adidas have reached a settlement in their dispute...

    2019-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Skechers and Adidas have reached a settlement in their dispute over footwear stripes. A filing by Skechers on July 29 at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California asked for the dismissal without prejudice of a lawsuit brought by Adidas, which had claimed that Skechers' Goldie-Peaks shoe infringed its Three Stripes ...

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    After a brief truce in the dispute between the U.S....

    2019-08-01T00:00:00Z

    After a brief truce in the dispute between the U.S. and Chinese government, President Donald Trump announced today that the U.S. will impose extra duties of 10 percent on $300 billion worth of annual imports from China as of Sept. 1. The list of the affected products has not yet ...

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    Investigating a tax case, the public prosecutor's office of Munich...

    2019-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Investigating a tax case, the public prosecutor's office of Munich has searched the business premises of Bogner, the Munich-based fashion company. A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office confirmed the search on July 24 but did not disclose further details about the case. A company spokeswoman has stated that the company ...

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    Ortlieb won a lawsuit in Federal Court against Amazon on July...

    2019-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Ortlieb won a lawsuit in Federal Court against Amazon on July 25. The German company wants to prevent the appearance of ads with the Ortlieb brand name on Google, which are linked to offers on the Amazon homepage. The issue is that, when searching a term with Ortlieb in it, such ...

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    Fesi, the European Sporting Goods Industry Federation, is planning to...

    2019-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Fesi, the European Sporting Goods Industry Federation, is planning to organize a high-level conference on sport and digitalization at the Microsoft Innovation Center in Brussels on Dec. 5

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    Andrea Tomat, president of Lotto Sport Italia and Stonefly, has...

    2019-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Andrea Tomat, president of Lotto Sport Italia and Stonefly, has settled a legal dispute with Gianni Lorenzato, a former shareholder and vice president of Lotto. Lorenzato has agreed to sell his remaining stake of 24 percent in a holding company, NexTB, to Tomat on undisclosed terms. Tomat will thus be ...

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    Bernard Tapie has won a court battle over his controversial...

    2019-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Bernard Tapie has won a court battle over his controversial sale of Adidas in 1994. Citing a lack of evidence, a high court in Paris dismissed a request that he should spend five years in prison on charges of fraud and abuse of public funds. The French maverick investor was ...

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    The session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that was...

    2019-07-10T00:00:00Z

    The session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that was held in Lausanne on June 25 unanimously approved the Paris 2024 proposal to include sport climbing, surfing, skateboarding and break dancing in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in the French capital city. A final decision on their inclusion is now to be ...

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    Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), the French-based association based in Annecy,...

    2019-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Outdoor Sports Valley (OSV), the French-based association based in Annecy, has appointed Benjamin Thaller as its new managing director. He replaces Anne Schott, who has left the organization to pursue other professional opportunities after 30 months in the role. Thaller was previously marketing director at Julbo and, prior to that, ...

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    The European Fishing Tackle Association (EFTTA) is recruiting a new...

    2019-07-10T00:00:00Z

    The European Fishing Tackle Association (EFTTA) is recruiting a new chief executive to replace the retiring Jean Claude Bel, and the ideal candidate must be a passionate angler, a citizen of the European Union and fluent in English

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    Neymar da Silva Santos Jr., commonly known simply as Neymar,...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Neymar da Silva Santos Jr., commonly known simply as Neymar, the Nike-sponsored forward on both the Paris Saint-Germain and Brazilian national football teams, has been accused of rape. His 27-year-old accuser, whose name has not been disclosed, filed a report to that effect on May 31 with the police in ...

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    Eurosima, the European association of action sports manufacturers, has announced...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    Eurosima, the European association of action sports manufacturers, has announced the election of Jean-Louis Rodrigues as its new president. Rodrigues is Boardriders' general manager for wholesale for the EMEA region. He will take over from Wilco Prins, the former general manager of Rip Curl Europe, who has held two consecutive ...

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    The European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex) has re-elected Alberto...

    2019-06-20T00:00:00Z

    The European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex) has re-elected Alberto Paccanelli, the chief executive of Martinelli Ginetto, as its president for the next two years

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    Fesi calls for less stringent IOC rules

    2019-06-04T00:00:00Z

    The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (Fesi) is calling for common regulations all over the European Union on the use of the sponsors’ brand names and logos in connection with the Olympic Games following a positive response by the German Cartel Office to a challenge by the German ...

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    WFSGI may make an announcement soon

    2019-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Robbert de Kock, president and chief executive of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI), called the actions of BSI and Fesi “a step forward” in the sporting goods industry's relations with the IOC. While advocating “a more global solution,” he pointed out that the issue is very ...