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Apple adds new features and languages for its sports watches
While presenting many other new products, Apple has announced expanded functionalities for its Fitness+ sports watch. Adding six new languages, it will become available in a total of 21 countries. In addition to a guided meditation feature, it will also come in the autumn with an offer of group workouts ...
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French sports marketplace raises funds to help it internationalize
Colizey, a French marketplace for sporting goods launched in 2019, is planning to move abroad in 2022, following a new round of financing worth €8 million. Existing and new investors such as Teddy Riner, the French judo champion, have participated in the fund-raising, joining the French-American basketball champion Tony Parker ...
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Le Coq Sportif expands French production
Le Coq Sportif has launched the construction of an extension to its French sports clothing factory at Romilly-sur-Seine that will employ 80 persons, joining the 100-odd employees of its existing plant. Measuring 3,000 square meters, it should come on stream at the end of 2022. Yannick Noah and other brand ...
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Peloton scores a victory in patent suit
A federal court in Texas has dismissed claims of patent infringement made by Mad Dogg Athletics against Peloton Interactive. Mad Dogg argued that Peloton’s business model was infringing on two patents it held for its own exercise bikes. The court rejected the claims, argueing that the two patents were abstract ...
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Callaway shareholder expands its public offering
PEP TG Investments, one of Callaway Golf’s largest shareholders with its stake of more than 15 percent, will finally sell 4,000,000 of its shares in the company, one million more than previously planned, through a public offering. It is pricing it at $29.25 per share, below Callaway’s closing price prior ...
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A new Italian shareholder for Houdini
An Italian investment company, GDTRE, is taking a stake in the equity of Houdini Sportswear, a Swedish outdoor brand that has a strong commitment to sustainability. GDTRE will join the brand’s co-founders, Hanna Lindblad and Eva Karlsson, who together own 77 percent of the company, as well as Stefan Ytterborn, ...
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Pabst steps down as CEO of Mammut
Source: Conzzeta Oliver Pabst Following the successful completion of change of ownership from Conzzeta to Telemos Capital, the board of directors of Mammut Sports Group and its CEO, Oliver Pabst, jointly announced that Pabst will step down and that Greg Nieuwenhuys, chairman of the board of directors ...
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Obituary: Steve Ettridge, vice president of global merchandising at New Balance
New Balance has announced the death of Steve Ettridge, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He was 56 year old, and he had been promoted to the position of vice president of global merchandising in February this year. Ettridge spent 27 years at the Boston-based athletic footwear company, ...
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Zara launches the Zara Athleticz men’s label
Zara has been selling some sports clothing in the past. This time, the international fast-fashion retailer owned by the Inditex group has decided to launch a full-fledged line of activewear for men under the Zara Athleticz (sic) label, starting on Sept. 30 on its web store and at selected physical ...
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Superdry sees slow recovery
In an update for the four months of its current financial year through Aug. 18, Superdry said that its revenues were up by just 1.9 percent from the year-ago period, and they were still 29.6 percent below the level of the comparable 2019 period. Sales through the company’s own stores ...
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Adidas sneaker ties in with the newest Bond film
Adidas will be introducing four Ultraboost sneakers for its 007 collection for the debut of the new James Bond movie, No Time to Die, which will have its global premiere in the U.K. on Sept. 30. To promote them, the German sportswear giant is organizing an augmented reality contest featuring ...
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Big Callaway shareholder reduces its stake through a public offering
Callaway Golf Co. has announced the start of a public offering of 3,000,000 shares in the company by one of its biggest investors, PEP TG Investments, which will reduce its stake to about 13.7 percent from 15.5 percent if an overallotment of 450,000 shares is exercised. The offering boosted Callaway’s ...
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Canada Goose launches an automatic share repurchase scheme
Canada Goose has entered an “automatic share repurchase plan,” allowing for the purchase of shares by a broker at times when it would not be permitted to acquire them, based on certain parameters. The Toronto Stock Exchange has cleared this scheme, allowing it to start on Sept. 16 in connection ...
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Slinger books a loss on 349% higher sales
Slinger Bag, which has been renamed as just Slinger following its diversification into tennis management and the planned release of AI-driven training technology, has reported a net loss of $3,435,312 for the first quarter ended July 31, up sharply from a loss of $1,374,026 in the year-ago period. Sales jumped ...
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Camera subscriptions boost GoPro’s sales and margins
GoPro told investors at the Citi’s Global Technology Virtual Conference that it still hopes to meet projected revenue growth of 30 percent for the second half of this year, although the supply of components still poses a challenge. The growth is coming especially from a shift to direct-to-consumer sales, with ...
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Columbia readies launch of Omni Heat Infinity campaign
“There is no such thing as bad weather. There is just bad clothing,” says Haskell Beckham, senior director of innovation at Columbia Sportswear, in a short video for industry professionals to explain the superior warmth retention and breathability properties of its latest technology, Omni Heat Infinity. It has already been ...
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News briefsAdidas and Stella McCartney featured at the Met Gala
Adidas joined Stella McCartney for this year’s Met Gala for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which took place in New York City on Sept. 13. The two brands, which have been working together for many years, supplied some spectacular pieces of apparel for the model Ella Emhoff, the former UCLA ...
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Puma has switched to shoeboxes of recycled cardboard
Puma claims that a new shoebox that it has introduced will save an annual 2,800 tons in cardboard. The box, which has a recycled cardboard content of about 95 percent, is one of several initiatives taken by the German sports brand as part of its “10FOR25 Sustainability Strategy.” Others include ...
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Courir buys a Danish-based sneaker retailer catering to women
Courir, the international French-based athletic footwear chain sold by Groupe Go Sport to Equistone Partners Europe at the end of 2018, is taking over Naked Copenhagen, an international online and offline retailer speicializing in top-tier releases of sneakers and streetwear for young women. The price of the transaction has not ...
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Tonal to release Tonal Live
Tonal is launching Tonal Live, a fitness app with live and on-demand workouts as well as a “social zone” for exchange and goal-sharing between members. Tonal’s founder and CEO, Aly Orady, describes the company’s offer as having “adaptive weights, individualized pacing and form feedback that are customized to our members ...
