News Briefs – Page 227
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News briefsArc’teryx opens new NY location, rebranding its Icon Stores as Arc’type
Located across from Central Park in the Upper West Side of New York, Arc’teryx Equipment has just opened a newly rebranded micro-store concept called Arc’type, centered around the brand’ s most renowned designs. It features a curated selection of just 22 items, ”specifically selected to help introduce guests to Arc’teryx ...
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News briefsHeiQ and Lycra to collaborate across technologies and brand platforms
HeiQ and The Lycra Company have entered into a broad-based collaboration across multiple technology and brand platforms to bring more of their textile technologies to consumers. Building on exploratory discussions that started in early 2019, HeiQ and Lycra have elected to leverage their shared philosophies and strengths in textile science, ...
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Pomoca builds new headquarters and production site
Pomoca, a specialist in ski mountaineering skins that has been part of the Oberalp Group since 2011, is building a new factory and a new head office in Chavornay, about 25 km north of its current production and administration site in Denges, near Lausanne, Switzerland. According to a company statement, ...
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News briefsUSWE acquires VOID Cycling from Tenson
On July 16, USWE Sports, a company founded in Skåne, Sweden, in 2007, signed an agreement to acquire VOID Cycling, founded in Gothenburg in 2014, from Tenson and Color Group. Both USWE and VOID are strong in e-commerce and have each established a global presence. The merger follows a collaboration ...
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News briefsNew database for microfiber shedding and standardized tests
After a joint effort of The Microfibre Consortium (TMC) and its members, a wide database, called the TMC Fibre Fragmentation Data Portal, and a globally aligned and standard test method have just been released to help determine the level of microfibers shed from fabric during domestic laundering. ...
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Sportmaster invests to popularize sports lifestyles in Russia
Sportmaster, the biggest sporting goods retailer in Russia, says it has built 825 sporting grounds in 76 Russian cities to make sports more accessible and popular for local citizens. The eventual target is to ramp up this figure to 1,000 sporting grounds in 100 cities. Sportmaster said that these sporting ...
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New items by Stella McCartney for Adidas and Victoria Beckham for Reebok
Calling it “a reimagining of workout wardrobe staples, Adidas and Stella McCartney have released a new Stellashine line of tights, crops, training jackets, running shoes and post-workout wear that is good for the gym and looks good elsewhere. It features reflective shine materials and textures “so wearers can go straight ...
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News briefsISPO launches a new network, the Collaborators Club
As a derivative of the ISPO Open Innovation platform for community activation, the ISPO Group has now launched the ISPO Collaborators Club as a new network for both industry members and consumers. As a member, you can keep your finger on the pulse of the consumer and thus improve your ...
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News briefsChange of leadership at Schoeller Textil
Siegfried Winkelbeiner, managing director of Schoeller Textil, will go into retirement and, after ten years with the Swiss textile company, hand over the helm to Joachim Kath this month. Coming from the chemical industry, Kath joined this major supplier to the sporting goods industry one and a half years ago ...
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Fabletics reportedly exploring IPO
Fabletics, the workout-apparel brand backed by the American actress Kate Hudson, is reportedly working with banks to prepare for an initial public offering (IPO) that should raise about $500 million and value the business at more than $5 billion. The Wall Street Journal reported that the company, owned by TechStyle ...
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Wilson opens first store in its hometown of Chicago, and plans more store openings
Wilson Sporting Goods has opened its first retail location in its hometown of Chicago. The 200-square-meter store, inaugurated on July 15, is located in the Gold Coast neighborhood at 932 N. Rush Street. The store offers a curated assortment of sporting goods across many sport categories such as tennis, baseball, ...
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Patagonia Works and Sympatex make the top list among B Corp companies
Every year, B Lab recognizes the top-performing B Corps companies in terms of their contribution to the economic and social well-being of the communities in which they operate. These companies are named “Best for the World” as their scores in the five impact areas evaluated on the B Impact Assessment ...
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Gym+Coffee releases trunks made of ocean plastic
The Irish athleisure brand Gym+Coffee has released a new swim trunk made entirely of recycled plastic recovered from the ocean. Maverick Swim Shorts come in three colors – turquoise, navy and maroon – and retail for £40 (€47-$55).
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Burton is sued over a helmet patent
Smith Sports Optics and Koroyd are suing Burton Snowboards in a federal court in Utah, claiming that the WaveCel shock-absorbing material it uses in some of its helmets infringes on a jointly owned U.S. patent. The patented technology, called Koroyd, uses an array of structures that provide crumple zones to ...
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Nike and ukactive launch Open Doors campaign, to help vulnerable young people during the summer
Nike is supporting ukactive, a not-for-profit body of members and partners across the physical activity and fitness sector in the U.K. Together, they want to engage vulnerable young people in sport and physical activity during the summer holidays by making school facilities across four major cities available. The initiative ...
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Macron signs new kit deals in Qatar and England
Macron has announced new technical sponsorship agreements with the Qatar Sports Club (SC) and Southend United F.C., two professional football clubs based in Doha, Qatar and Southend-on-Sea, England, respectively. The Italian sportswear company will be the official technical sponsor of Qatar SC, previously with Puma, during the 2021/22 season. Qatar ...
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11teamsports expands into the Iberian peninsula
According to CMDsport, the German football specialist Eleventeamsports has begun operations on the Iberian peninsula with an e-commerce site and is planning to establish a network of franchise stores there over the coming years. Its main competition in Spain is Fútbol Emotion. Founded in 2007, the German retailer and distributor ...
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Adidas introduces the X Speedflow football boot
Adidas is launching the X Speedflow, a football boot that is said to “redefine speed” in the game. In 2020, the company launched the X Ghosted, developing a light-weight boot that would reflect today’s fast football. Adidas’ product creation team got feedback from both athletes and amateurs on how that ...
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Alltricks opens a physical store in southern France
Alltricks, the French-based e-tailer controlled by the Decathlon group, has opened a branded physical store in the area of the Decathlon Village at Bouc Bel Air, between the French cities of Marseille and Aix-en-Provence. The new 450-square-meter store, inaugurated on July 6, specializes in the cycling, running, outdoor and triathlon ...
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Lululemon partners with LanzaTech for first fabrics from recycled carbon emissions
Lululemon has teamed up with LanzaTech to create what they claim to be the world’s first yarn and fabric derived from recycled carbon emissions. LanzaTech, a biotech company that uses biology and big data to create climate-safe materials and fuels, works with India Glycols and Far Eastern New Century (FENC) ...
