News Briefs – Page 178
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News briefsGerman Football Association (DFB) signs multi-year contract with Catapult
Catapult, the market leader in performance technology for elite sports, today announced a multi-year contract with the DFB Academy to capture performance data via video, track athlete performance via wearables, and enhance analytics infrastructure at all levels of the German national soccer teams. The company’s integrated platform will enable coaches ...
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News briefsCanada Goose appoints Carrie Baker as president
Source: Business Wire Carrie Baker Canada Goose Holdings Inc. has promoted Carrie Baker, a long-term company manager, to president, a new position at the company. In this role, she will be reporting to Dani Reiss, who has been president and CEO in a dual position and will ...
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SIA elects new board members
The Snowsports Industry Association (SIA) has elected a new chairman of the board, Michael West, and new board members. West was the founder in 1992 of the 686 brand of technical apparel and has co-founded or owned several other companies, among them New Balance Numeric, Maekan, Matix, Westwell and NRI ...
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Centr, Inspire Fitness merger has Hollywood, Amazon components
The Aussie actor who plays Thor and the brother of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have teamed up to create a new health and wellness platform with global aspirations. HighPost Capital, a private equity firm led by David Moross and Mark Bezos, has acquired Centr, a digital fitness platform founded by ...
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Infantino to seek third term as FIFA president
Speaking at the 72nd FIFA Congress in Doha on March 31, FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced his intention to stand for re-election in 2023. It would be his third term in this role. Infantino, a 52-year-old Swiss-Italian lawyer, was first elected as FIFA president in February 2016. Before that, starting ...
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Court finds Nike infringed a Lontex trademark
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has awarded Lontex about $4.62 million in attorneys’ fees and $369,263 in expenses in a lawsuit with Nike. In addition, the jury in the case awarded damages for Nike’s infringement of the Lontex “cool compression” trademark on athletic wear. The ...
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News briefsYKK adds WaveOn to its software partner’s list for Touchlink fasteners
YKK has announced that the California-based software service provider WaveOn is joining its network of software partners supporting the YKK’s Touchlink fasteners enabled with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. WaveOn looks to combine its software with the Touchlink hardware to help brand customers create a digital access point that can ...
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Revo expands golf division to include racquet sports
Revo is now including racquet sports within its golf division and has expanded its team of tennis representatives by six – in response, it says, to “industry growth in the golf, tennis and pickleball categories.” The sunglass and goggle brand’s Light Management System for lenses is derived from techniques developed ...
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News briefsPuma returns to pádel with new collection
After an eight-year hiatus, Puma is returning to pádel with a new collection of racquets, shoes, apparel and accessories – for players of various expertise and style – as well as a campaign called Faster Padel. The racquets range from the top-of-the-line solarATTACK, solarATTACK PWR (power) and solarATTACK CTR (control) ...
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News briefsPuma Safety partners with Shoe For Crews
Puma Safety is partnering with Shoe For Crews, a Florida-headquartered firm that designs and manufactures slip-resistant footwear on a line of slip-resistant industrial safety footwear. The collaborative line will include full-grain leather and microfiber footwear, featuring lightweight composite and fiberglass safety toe options and antimicrobial and moisture-wicking linings and shock ...
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A founder resigns from Snow Factory
As CMDsport reports, Xavier Garriga, one of two brothers who founded the company 16 years ago, has resigned from Snow Factory to join The Coaches, a consultancy specialized in sustainability as it applies to management. His stated reason is a desire to return to entrepreneurship. Snow Factory is now under ...
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News briefsZalando creates circular, modular sweatshirt
Zalando has created a unisex, modular sweatshirt made of Infinna – a fiber produced in Finland by Infinited Fiber Company that consists entirely of post-consumer textile waste. Even the weave has been designed, in 3D, to cut waste to 3 percent of the raw fabric. The sweatshirt was on display ...
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RocRoi buys majority stake in UR Pirineos
According to CMDsport, RocRoi of Catalonia has acquired a majority stake in UR Pirineos of Aragon, which offers both all manner of outdoor activities (rafting, paintball, climbing, etc.) and training in them (rescue operations included). The move should turn RocRoi into the largest purveyor of adventure sports in southern Europe. ...
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Afydad reelects its president
Afydad, Spain’s association of sporting goods manufacturers, has reelected Andrés de la Dehesa, CEO of Gescode, a producer of retail software in Catalonia, to another four-year term as president. Mar Peire has been reelected first vice president, and Guillermo Ruiz is making his debut as second vice president. Peire is ...
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News briefsDunlop partners with Tennis Europe
Tennis Europe and Dunlop have signed a comprehensive partnership deal recognizing the manufacturer as the main equipment sponsor of the European Tennis Federation. The four-year agreement, beginning April 1, marks the beginning of a long-term relationship between the two organizations during which Dunlop and its range of products, including K-Swiss ...
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News briefsLondon Ski & Snowboard Festival returns in October
Starting over with its new organizing event company Smart Group, the London Ski & Snowboard Festival is scheduled for Oct. 27 to 30, 2022, at Battersea Park. The four-day festival features a 42-meter ski jump, parkour arena, practice slope and a marketplace with over 200 brands and snowsports destinations. Among ...
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News briefsMoody’s lowers Boardriders’ debt rating
Moody’s has lowered the corporate family rating of the parent company of Quiksilver, Boardriders, Element, Roxy, RVCA and DC Shoes from Caa1 to Caa2 and the senior secured credit facility rating from B3 to Caa1. The rating agency cited weak credit metrics, including a leverage ratio of nearly 8x and ...
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Nike to begin testing Jordan-only stores in North America
Nike will begin testing stores in North America that only sell its Jordan brand in fiscal 2023. The announcement was made during Nike’s earnings call for its fiscal 2022 third-quarter results on March 21. The test in North America will leverage a consumer experience that proved “wildly successful in Greater ...
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News briefsBarcelona will host the 2024 America’s Cup
America’s Cup will be back in Europe and once again in Spain in 2024. Barcelona has been confirmed as the host venue for the 37th edition to be held in September and October 2024. The last time in Europe was in 2010 in Valencia, which also hosted the 2007 edition. ...
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News briefsPádel Village returns to ISPO Munich
According to CMDsport, the Padel Village, not seen since its inaugural years of 2014 and 2015, is making a return at this year’s ISPO Munich, scheduled for Nov. 28-30. The representative of the trade show in Spain, Martina Claus, believes that the market for pádel was at the time insufficiently ...
