News Briefs – Page 183
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News briefsCallaway Golf Company publishes 2021 sustainability report
Callaway Golf Company, the owner of the Callaway, Odyssey, Ogio, Topgolf, Jack Wolfskin and TravisMathew brands, has published its sustainability report 2021 to summarize the group’s global sustainability program across all brands’ corporate offices, facilities and global operations. As part of its ambition to drive improvement throughout operations and supply ...
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News briefsAmerican private equity firm acquires majority stake in Dainese
Dainese Group has announced that the American private equity firm Carlyle will acquire a majority stake in the company from Investcorp and Lino Dainese. The change in ownership will include all of the Italian group’s brands – Dainese, AGV and TCX – as well as real estate and production facilities. ...
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News briefsReebok signs American football star Myles Garrett
Reebok has entered into a long-term partnership with U.S. football star and Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett, which the brand says will energize Reebok’s lifestyle and performance categories in Classics, Running, Cross-Training and Heritage Basketball. As a Reebok athlete, Garrett will play a key role in key marketing campaigns ...
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News briefsSport 2000 opens Mega Store in Sofia, Bulgaria
Under the Sport Depot banner, Sport 2000 has opened a Mega Store in Sofia, its largest store in Bulgaria with 3,000 square meters of retail space and four floors, each specializing in a different type of sport. The new retail concept of the store is characterized by a contemporary interior ...
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News briefsToyota’s first sit-ski at 2022 Paralympic Games
Toyota Motor North America and Toyota Racing Development USA, which is its U.S. racing arm, have developed the first Toyota sit-ski, a monoski made available for use by U.S. Paralympics Alpine Skiing at the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games. Testing first started in the winter of late 2019, with five-time ...
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Scottish Golf reports membership increase
According to Scottish Golf’s Annual Review 2021, released at the governing body’s general assembly on March 6, the total playing membership of adults and juniors in Scotland’s affiliated golf clubs increased by 7.3 percent in 2021. The increase took the total to 207,676, including 182,167 males and 25,509 females. Membership ...
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News briefs100% appoints new global eyewear and snow team
The sports performance brand 100% has announced the appointment of a new leadership team to support the company’s accelerated growth in eyewear. In addition, the brand launched its first collection of snow products. Gwen van Lingen has joined 100% as vice-president of global marketing and sales for the eyewear and ...
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News briefsLululemon reveals first-ever footwear collection
Lululemon announced its official entrance into the footwear category, allowing the brand to now offer a head-to-toe solution, made for women first. On March 8, the Vancouver-based company introduced its debut running shoe, Blissfeel, during a media event in New York. The style will be available online and in select ...
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News briefsCharity platform Sport4ukraine calls for donations and doubles them
On the newly formed charity platform Sport4ukraine, founded by Siegbert Müller, managing director of Outtra, donations to help people in need in the wake of the war in Ukraine are collected. The project is supported by the organizations BSI, VDS, SAZsport, Sport 2000, and companies Alpenstrand, Chillaz, Ortlieb, Bergfreunde, Devold, ...
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Puma to replace Nike as Lega Serie A’s technical sponsor
Puma and Lega Serie A have announced a new long-term partnership that will make the German sports brand the Italian league’s official technical partner from the start of the 2022/23 football season. In addition, the brand will be the official match ball provider for all games in Serie A, Primavera ...
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World Padel Tour aligns prize money for men and women
World Padel Tour (WPT) has decided to level all prize money handed out at every event, with immediate effect. With this decision, described as having “no precedent in worldwide sport,” WPT becomes the first global competition to have equal prize money at all its events. This is also the latest ...
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Russia appeals FIFA and UEFA bans in CAS
The Russian Football Federation (Rossijski Futbolny Sojus) has appealed the suspensions of Russian national teams and clubs from all FIFA and UEFA competitions over the invasion of Ukraine. The federation is asking the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to lift the suspensions to allow Russia to take part in ...
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Paris Saint-Germain opens flagship store in New York
French football club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) has announced the opening of a flagship store in New York City, located at 587 5th Avenue. It will be the first official boutique in New York City for an international sports club and the club’s largest store outside of France, adding to PSG’s ...
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Puma introduces diverse mannequins in India
Puma India has introduced diverse mannequins in its stores across the country to mark Women’s Day. The brand selected four female customers with different body types to participate in the initiative, in which mannequins were made according to their measurements. In the past, retail mannequins have always been tailored to ...
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Performance Days Fall/Winter to be held Nov. 3-4 at MOC in Munich
The winter edition of the Performance Days fabrics trade show will be held for the first time on Nov. 3-4, 2022, and on a one-time basis at Munich’s MOC order center. It will be accompanied by a digital offering. The MOC, also the one-time venue for OutDoor by ISPO in ...
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News briefsMark Wahlberg invests in sneaker brand P448’s parent company
Actor Mark Wahlberg has become a strategic investor in the New York-based company StreetTrend LLC, taking ”a significant minority financial stake” in the business. StreetTrend, a fashion footwear and streetwear brand company launched in 2017 by Wayne Kulkin, acquired the Italian sneaker brand P448 from NoThanks SpA in late 2020. ...
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News briefsAmazon acquires e-commerce software provider; European business growth slower than in 2020
It has just been disclosed that Seattle-based Internet giant Amazon acquired Veeqo last November, a software startup based in Swansea, Wales, founded in 2013. Veeqo provides software that helps retailers manage their online businesses across e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify and Walmart – from shipping orders and returns ...
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Adidas sues Fashion Nova over Stan Smith sneaker
Adidas is once again taking on California-based apparel manufacturer Fashion Nova, accusing it of infringing on the trade dress of its Stan Smith sneaker. According to a lawsuit, Fashion Nova intentionally sold counterfeits, which features a classic tennis shoe with a white leather upper and the Three Stripes mark. The ...
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News briefsOn collaborates with fashion brand Loewe
Spanish fashion brand Loewe and On have launched a limited-edition capsule collection of footwear and apparel “for modern adventure.” Designed for urban and outdoor living, the collection includes Loewe editions of On’s Cloudventure and Cloudrock performance footwear for men and women. The shoes feature On’s Missiongrip rubber outsole and Speedboard ...
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Adidas China with new CEO
A new CEO, highly familiar with both the market and the brand, is expected to boost Adidas’ flagging sales in China after Western sports brands recently suffered from a boycott called by state media and social media users over Western allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Adidas saw Greater ...
