News briefs - Corporate and M&A – Page 24
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News briefsOn opens new global headquarters and flagship store
The Swiss company On opened its new campus and global headquarters named On Labs, located in Zurich and offering space for roughly 1,000 employees (to date filled with the On staff of 700). Also, part of the building with a total size of 15,000 sqm is Europe’s first On flagship ...
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Tonal seeks to raise $100 million in financing
Bloomberg reported that Tonal Systems is seeking $100 million in financing in a deal that would value the company at $1.9 billion. The home fitness start-up, launched in 2015 and based in San Francisco, has previously raised money from athletes including Serena Williams, LeBron James, Drew Brees and Mike Tyson. ...
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News briefsCalifornia ski boot company seeks buyer to further expand business
The CEO of Mad Jack Snowsports, Kristin Mehiel, has announced that she intends to sell the company to give it the opportunity to grow further. The California-based company has in the past launched a novel ski boot that allows users to ski with the comfort of a snowboard boot: the ...
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News briefsSport 2000 Austria celebrates 50th anniversary
Over the past 50 years, Sport 2000 Austria has developed from a small garage with ten retailers to Austria’s largest sports retailer community with currently 232 retailers. Sport 2000 Austria employs around 3,450 people and will achieve a projected turnover of 700 million euros in its anniversary year (estimate based ...
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News briefsEquip App raises CHF 5 million to revolutionize access to sports
Geneva-based private equity firm The New Frontiers (TNF) led the 5 million Swiss francs funding round for Equip, a self-service rental app founded in 2021 that promises to fundamentally change the way sports are played at the local level. Equip was born in Switzerland in 2021 out of a desire ...
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News briefsBasicNet to open “Basic Village” in Milan
Italian group BasicNet will open its “Basic Village” in Milan on Sep. 21 during Fashion Week. The 4,500-square meter space will feature offices, showrooms, restaurants, commercial activities and lofts. BasicNet Group is the parent company of the Kappa, K-Way, Sebago and Superga brands. K-Way accounts for 65 to 70 percent ...
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News briefsLululemon at Club Pilates studios in Spain
Lululemon has begun distributing its products at the Club Pilates studios in Spain, Palco23 has reported. The Canadian athletic apparel retailer already has similar agreements with Club Pilates in other countries, including the U.K. and U.S. Club Pilates, which is owned by California-based Xponential Fitness, which currently has three studios ...
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News briefsAndrés Iniesta launches new sportswear brand Capitten
Spanish footballer Andrés Iniesta has launched Capitten, a new sportswear brand. Capitten’s debut line features the One 888, the flagship product of the brand’s collection. It’s a limited-edition football boot for adults and children, designed in partnership with Japanese firm Shimpei Inoue and inspired by the 1980s. The shoe is ...
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Partnership between Porsche and Red Bull does not materialize
In the course of a possible Formula 1 entry by Porsche, Porsche AG and Red Bull have held talks in recent months. Both companies have jointly concluded that these talks will not be continued, Porsche said in a press release. The premise was always a partnership at eye level, including ...
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News briefsSkechers expects situation in China to ease
Skechers still sees the international market as key to its goal of reaching $10 billion in sales by 2026, despite ongoing headwinds in China. The company said at the Goldman Sachs Global Retailing Conference that it expects the situation in the People’s Republic to improve within two quarters. It will ...
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News briefsSnowsports year-round in the heart of Stockholm
SkiStar, a company that runs Scandinavia’s biggest resorts, has worked with dry slop surface manufacturer Neveplast to create SkiStar SummerSki, a new 470-meter long dry ski slope in the heart of Stockholm. With an overall skiable surface of 9,000 square meters, the slope is one of Europe’s longest and largest ...
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News briefsCallaway completes name change
Source: Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. New name and logo On Sep. 6, 2022, Callaway Golf Company changed its corporate name to Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp., as previously announced, pursuant to a certificate of amendment to the company’s second restated certificate of incorporation filed with the Delaware Secretary ...
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News briefsCastore secures £50 million debt facility
Sportspromedia reports that Castore has secured a new £50 million (€58.2 million) revolving credit facility (RCF). This would increase the value of the British sportswear brand to £750 million (€872 million). The RCF has an initial term of three years and includes banks HSBC, BNP Paribas and Silicon Valley Bank. ...
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News briefsSports Direct’s owner wants to buy MySale
Frasers Group, the owner of Sports Direct, has made a cash offer for Australian off-price marketplace MySale, in which Frasers Group is already the largest shareholder. Frasers acquired a 28.7 percent stake in MySale earlier this summer, as reported by SGI Europe at the time. The retail group has now ...
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News briefsPeloton with delayed annual report
Peloton Interactive will need up to 15 additional days to file its 10-K report for the fiscal year ended June 30, which was due Aug. 29, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The reason given is that the company is still calculating the impairment ...
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News briefsiFit Health & Fitness reportedly loses key executives as CEO search continues
IFit Health & Fitness, the U.S. connected fitness company that formally withdrew its registration statement for an initial public offering in early April, is losing two top senior executives, according to a report by the NY Post yesterday. CFO Steve Barr, named co-president in February, and Tony Smith, a 28-year ...
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News briefsMycel Project closes $10m financing round for new production facility
The South Korean biomaterials start-up company Mycel Project, a spin-off of the Hyundai Motor Group, has just closed a new pre-Series A funding round, raising a total of $10 million. Six main investors (a Hyundai Motor fund among them) are now involved in the company funding, most of them based ...
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News briefsGoPro's subscription service surpasses two million subscribers
GoPro, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2022, announced that its highly profitable GoPro subscription service has surpassed the two million subscriber mark. The GoPro subscription offers customers unlimited cloud storage, the ability to automatically upload footage directly from GoPro cameras to the cloud, premium editing tools in the Quik ...
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News briefsUSTA sells Western and Southern Open
Beemok Capital has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cincinnati’s Western and Southern Open from the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA). The firm, described as the “family office of Benjamin Navarro,” has not disclosed terms, but Sports Business Journal reports that early bidders had made offers ranging from $200 to ...
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Ski base manufacturer Isosport buys Romanian factory from Novo Tech
Eisenstadt, Austria-based plastics composites manufacturer Isosport has acquired Polish plastics specialist Novo Tech’s factory in Oradea, western Romania, for an undisclosed price, deal advisor Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen told Snow Industry News earlier this week. Isosport is the world leader in innovative plastic solutions for the ski, snowboard and ...
