News Briefs – Page 190
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Puma North America falls victim to ransomware attack
Bleepingcomputer.com reports that after a ransomware attack on one of Puma’s North American workforce management service providers, Kronos, in December 2021, cybercriminals also stole Puma North America employees’ data from the Kronos private cloud. Ransomware attacks involve malware that is installed undetected in the victim’s system. The malware then encrypts ...
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News briefsThe Olympics are beneficial for Alibaba
Chinese people like to use the days around Chinese New Year to do some shopping. According to the technology company Alibaba, the most popular shopping products this year include items related to the Olympic Games, skiing and ice sports. During the the New Year’s holidays (Jan. 31 ...
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Adidas partners with NYCRUNS Brooklyn Marathon & Half Marathon
Adidas has been announced as the first-ever footwear and apparel partner for NYCRUNS Brooklyn Marathon & Half Marathon. The race will be held in Brooklyn on April 24 and is expected to see the participation of more than 20,000 runners, making it one of the largest running events in the ...
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News briefsK2-MDV renames itself Elevate Outdoor Collective
Seattle-based K2-MDV Holdings, the parent company of all K2 Sports and MDV brands, including K2 Skis, K2 Snowboarding, Marker, Dalbello, Völkl, Ride Snowboards, Line Skis, Backcountry Access, Atlas Snow Shoe Co, Tubbs Snowshoes, Madshus and K2 Skates, announced that it has rebranded itself Elevate Outdoor Collective, effective immediately. The company ...
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News briefsCollapsed textile factory: Rana Plaza trial continues
For five years, the trial surrounding the collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh was suspended, but now it is to resume on Feb. 16. The eight-story Rana Plaza factory building collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing more than 1,100 people. It housed several textile and other companies, and clothes were ...
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News briefsSale of Millet Mountain Group approved
Following a binding offer from Jean-Pierre Millet and Inspiring Sport Capital in December regarding the acquisition of the Millet Mountain Group, the French Calida Group has received final approval from the French Works Council and signed a definitive binding agreement to sell its outdoor division. The transaction is expected to ...
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News briefsElement Skateboards will be donating 1% of its global hardgood sales
Element Skateboards has announced it will donate one percent of all global hardgoods sales to 1% for the Planet. In a press release, the brand said, “At Element, we are not climate scientists. We are skateboarders, adventurers, creatives; a community of passionate people who care. We care about our planet, ...
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News briefsNew Sports Direct flagship store planned in Manchester
Frasers Group has announced plans to open a new Sports Direct flagship in the Arndale shopping center in Manchester city center. Sports Direct currently occupies 2,700 square meters on the lower first floor of the shopping center. Under a new 15-year lease, Sports Direct will move into the 5,440-square-meter space, ...
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News briefsAnta Sports and Li Ning shares benefit from the Beijing Games
With the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing, the share prices of Chinese sports companies Anta Sports and Li Ning have risen, each by almost five percent in recent days. Analysts attribute this to a positive mood among the population due to the Games. The value of one Anta ...
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News briefsDecathlon Germany tests CO2-friendly same-day delivery
The sporting goods retailer and manufacturer Decathlon is testing the expansion of sustainable services in Germany. In Munich, a pilot project has been set up in collaboration with Glocally, a logistics company founded in 2021 by three students at the Technical University of Munich. The company focuses on a sustainable ...
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News briefsBodytone may have equaled its record year
According to CMDsport, Bodytone International Group appears to have equaled in 2021 its record annual sales of 2020, which amounted to €28.5 million. And the Spanish producer of fitness equipment is looking forward to an even better 2022. Speaking with CMDsport, one of Bodytone’s two CEOs, Joaquín Marín, projected a ...
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News briefsAsics invests in video-analysis start-up
Asics, through its subsidiary Asics Ventures Corp. of Kobe, Japan, has purchased a stake in Run.Edge Limited, a start-up that was spun off from Fujitsu Limited in June 2018 and produces applications for real-time sports video analysis. Among its applications are Fl-ux, Pitchbase and Taguru. Fl-ux is in use by ...
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News briefsFIBO 2022 holds on to April event in Cologne
The organizers of FIBO are committed to a return to normality in 2022. After a two-year absence, the global fitness show is to return as a physical show on April 7-10 in Cologne, Germany, with” the best possible health and safety protection for all attendees,” Koelnmesse says. One day before ...
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Superkicks with 4th brick-and-mortar store in India
Indian online sneaker retailer Superkicks opened its fourth brick-and-mortar store in Guwahati in the country’s northeast on Feb. 5. To test the market, which the retailer says has already been very profitable for its online business in the past, Superkicks opened an 80-square-meter pop-up store for a six-month period. ...
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News briefsAre Amazon and Nike interested in Peloton?
We recently reported that an activist investor in Peloton had called on the board to fire the CEO and explore a sale of the company, whose share price had fallen dramatically due to declining demand for its connected fitness solutions. Now Peloton’s share price has risen by just over a ...
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Helmet company Kask takes over footwear company Vogel
Kask, an Italian company founded in 2004 specialized in sports and work helmets, announced the acquisition of Vogel, a Manhattan-based maker of riding boots and other footwear since 1879. The purchase is part of Kask’s strategy of increasing its presence in the fashion business while remaining an established company in ...
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News briefsMistral acquired by Dutch investor
The surf brand Mistral has been acquired by the Dutch investment company Nederlands MerkGoed (NMG) from Haarlem. Nothing was disclosed about the takeover price. Mistral was the first European windsurfing brand, founded in 1976. Mistral’s portfolio currently includes windsurfing equipment, SUPs and apparel. The company generated sales of €80 million ...
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News briefsOn outfits Swiss Olympians – and bobsledders – in Beijing
After the Olympic Games in the summer of 2021, On, the Swiss sports shoe manufacturer traded on the New York Stock Exchange, is now also equipping the Swiss Olympic team in Beijing. For Tokyo 2021, On started supplying the entire Swiss team with apparel and footwear. In Beijing, the company ...
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News briefsSeventh Absolute Run store opened
Sport 2000 reports that the seventh Absolute Run store opened on Feb. 4 in Germany. The owner of the store, which has been existing as “Laufsport Andreas” since 2006 in the city of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia (80,000 inhabitants), is Petra Benecke, who has now reopened her store as “Absolute ...
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News briefsWithings acquires health and fitness app 8fit
Withings, a French electronics company with offices in the U.S. and Hong Kong and focusing on at-home connected health, announced the acquisition of 8fit, a global health, fitness and wellness app with more than 40 million downloads, launched in Berlin in 2014. Available in six languages, 8fit provides its users ...
