News Briefs – Page 230
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CrossFit appoints Jason Dunlop as president
CrossFit has appointed Jason Dunlop, a former Nike executive, to the new role of president. Dunlop also held senior roles at Starbucks, Canada Goose, Waterstones, The Body Shop, Marks & Spencer,and The Gap. At Nike, he was the executive responsible for the brand’s Direct-To-Consumer (D2C) business across Europe, the Middle ...
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Japanese tennis open gets cancelled again
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are going ahead as scheduled, with multiple restrictions. However, the executive committee of the Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis tournament have decided to cancel the event, which was due to take place in September, because of Covid-19. The committee mentioned in particular the border enforcement and ...
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Puma inaugurates its new French headquarters
Puma has inaugurated its new headquarters for France, home to 120 staff members. The new 4,200-square-meter headquarters is located in the Wacken district of Strasbourg. Puma France was previously headquartered in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, in Strasbourg’s southern suburb. In addition to two office floors, the new eco-friendly facility features a 1,000-square-meter showroom, ...
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An Absolute Run-Finish Line store opens in Germany
The fifth Absolute Run store affiliated with Sport 2000 has opened in downtown Nuremberg, Germany. Its full name is actually Absolute Run–Finish Line. Covering nearly 300 square meters, it takes the place of a running specialty store called Finish Line, like the U.S. banner recently taken over by JD Sports ...
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Kathmandu group issues a profit warning
The new Covid-related retail lockdowns in Australia have negatively affected the profitability of Kathmandu Holdings, whose assets include Rip Curl. Its guidance for the financial year ending July 31 has been reduced to underlying Ebitda of 120 million New Zealand dollars (€71.3m-$84.1m) on revenues of NZ$ 930 million (€552m-$651m), which ...
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Omnichannel purchasing has become the norm in Spain
According to the “Estudio E-Commerce 2021,” a study put out by IAB Spain and Elogia, the distinction between e-tail and physical retail has blurred this year in Spain to the point of indifference for 58 percent of the country’s consumers. This is an increase of six percentage points from last ...
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Titleist opens a European fitting center in England
Titleist has inaugurated a new Titleist Performance Center at the Woburn Golf Club in Bedfordshire, England. The center will serve as the brand’s new home for Tour Players’ support in Europe. The same custom-fitting and performance analysis equipment available to Tour professionals will be available to golfers of all levels, ...
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Joma is the new kit supplier of Norwich City
Joma and the Norwich City Football Club have agreed on a new technical kit partnership deal. The financial terms and the length of the agreement, which replaces the club’s previous contract with Errea, have not been disclosed, although the club has described it as a “record-breaking sponsorship deal.” Joma will ...
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Decathlon launches its marketplace in France
The international French-based sports retailer has finally rolled out its new online marketplace concept in its domestic market, acting in collaboration with a local developer, Mirakl. The items being offered on the French website can be filtered by supplier or brand name, by type of product, by sport and by ...
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Ellesse partners with Patta to promote inclusivity in tennis
Ellesse has announced a three-year partnership with Patta, a global streetwear brand, which aims to change the perception of tennis, making it more accessible for everyone regardless of their socio-economic background. The partnership will kick off with a community-based tennis tournament in the U.K., called “City Slam,” on July 18. ...
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Bolivia's Pumapunku site inspires a line by Puma and Pronounce
Puma has teamed up with Pronounce, a designer brand with offices in Milan and Shanghai, on a debut collaborative collection of apparel, footwear and accessories inspired by Pumapunku, an ancient archaeological site in Bolivia. Pronounce was founded in 2016 by Yushan Li and Jun Zhou. The collaborative collection, which “combines ...
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News briefsAdidas appoints MD for Central Europe and VP of ‘Global Hype’
Adidas has promoted Marina Moguš from general manager of Eastern Europe to managing director of Central European operations. She will now have charge of the markets of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The company will in time be expanding her purview to ...
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MTS takes over the Crossboccia brand
After distributing the Crossboccia brand since 2009, MTS Sportartikel has taken over the global rights to the brand. Building on the basic idea of the old street games of boccia and boules, Crossboccia is played with soft balls made of robust fabric and filled with granules. Both companies are German. ...
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Authentic Brands moves the Spyder license to Liberated Brands
Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has announced the transition of its core licenses for its ski-focused Spyder brand to Liberated Brands. Under the terms of the new long-term agreement, Liberated Brands will assume outerwear and apparel sourcing, product design, marketing, wholesale, e-commerce and retail store operations across the U.S., Canada, Australia, ...
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FightCamp raises $90 million in a new funding round
FightCamp, the at-home training system for boxing and kickboxing, has raised $90 million from a long list of investors that also includes contributions from famous fighters like Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Georges St-Pierre and Francis Ngannou. The funding round was led by two venture capital firms, New Enterprise Associates ...
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Oakley announces new partnership with the Korean Olympic Committee
Oakley has agreed on a new sponsorship agreement for sunglasses with the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC). Oakley will provide sunglasses and goggles to the athletes of Team Korea participating in the Olympic Games and Asian Games through to the end of 2024. As part of the agreement, Oakley ...
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Decathlon sends its first American athlete ambassadors to the Olympics
Decathlon has announced that two of its sponsored athletes, Jamal Hill (paralympic swimming) and Robyn Stevens (race walking), have qualified for the Tokyo Summer Olympics and will be the first Team USA athletes to represent the French brand at the Olympic Games. After being postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
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Castore partners with Newcastle United
Castore has agreed on a new multi-year deal with Newcastle United as the new kit partner of the Premier League club. The British sportswear brand will replace Puma in this role from the 2021/22 season. As part of the agreement, Castore will also take over the club’s retail operations. This ...
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Adidas sues Thom Browne
Adidas has filed a formal lawsuit in a New York federal court for copyright infringement against Thom Browne, according to The Fashion Law, charging that the New York-based menswear designer is “selling athletic-style apparel and footwear featuring two, three or four parallel stripes in a manner that is confusingly similar ...
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News briefsTNF to retire its Futurelight logo
The North Face plans to “phase out and discontinue” the logo it introduced in 2019 for its Futurelight line of apparel and accessories. In January, a graffiti artist in New York working under the name Futura filed a lawsuit in California Central District Court alleging that the VF-owned brand had ...
