News Briefs – Page 267
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VF’s Icebreaker has a new global president
Jan Van Mossevelde is VF Corp’s new global president for the Icebreaker brand. Succeeding Greg Smith, who has resigned, Van Mossevelde will be working out of the brand’s international head office in Auckland, New Zealand, while reporting to Martino Scabbia Guerrini, president of the EMEA region. The new position is ...
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ÖSFA fair in Salzburg is cancelled again
The 108th winter sports edition of ÖSFA, the Austrian trade fair, which was planned as a physical fair in Salzburg’s Brandboxx from Feb. 23 to 25, has been cancelled by order of the local health authorities due to coronavirus restrictions. “We have fought like lions for the realization of these ...
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Sharing sports equipment presents low risk of coronavirus transmission, a study suggests
A recent study, led by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, suggests that sports equipment is unlikely to be a major cause of virus transmission. For the purposes of the Strike study, the researchers applied a dose of coronavirus to different types of sporting equipment, including red and white cricket ...
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News briefsVans launches a digital livestream channel
Vans has launched Channel 66, a digital livestream network broadcasting weekdays from New York City, Chicago, Mexico City, and Los Angeles to a worldwide audience. The channel offers a live audio and video broadcast featuring DJ sets, radio shows, talks, workshops and musical performances across music, art, action sports and ...
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News briefsSympatex’ membranes will be over 25% bio-based
Sympatex announced at ISPO Munich Online that ,as early as this year, more than 25 percent of the raw materials required for its membranes will be switched to bio-based sources derived from various organic waste streams, based on mass balancing. At the same time, the ingredient brand says it aims ...
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Peak Performance joins the Circular Fashion Partnership
Peak Performance is among the brands that have recently joined the Circular Fashion Partnership, a cross-sectorial project led by the Global Fashion Agenda, in partnership with Reverse Resources, the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and P4G. They aim to achieve a long-term, scalable transition to a circular fashion ...
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Decathlon will source bikes from a big new plant in Romania
The cycling boom has led Decathlon, which is a major player in the sector with its private-label lines, to boost its manufacturing capacity in Europe. While expanding the production in France and Portugal, it is working with a partner in Romania, the Sport Mechanical Workshop, on the establishment of a ...
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Italy blocks the reopening of ski lifts
Ski resorts were supposed to reopen in Italy on Monday, Feb. 15, but the Italian Health Minister, Roberto Speranza, abruptly signed a decree on Sunday, extending the ban on recreational ski resorts until at least March 5, in connection with the spread of the British variant of the coronavirus across ...
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K-Swiss signs up Fabio Fognini on shoe deal
K-Swiss has announced Fabio Fognini as a new member of its roster of tennis players. The 33-year-old Italian athlete, who is currently 17th in the ATP ranking, will be wearing K-Swiss tennis shoes for the next two years. Fognini won the doubles championship in the 2015 Australian Open, together with ...
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Slinger Bag signs a chief brand ambassador
Slinger Bag has signed an endorsement deal with Tommy Haas, an Olympic silver medalist in tennis who was formerly ranked second in the world by the ATP. Haas will be serving as the combination ball launcher and carrier’s chief ambassador, heading up a roster that includes the doubles players Bob ...
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Puma and Cara Delevingne team up on new yoga collection
Puma and Cara Delevingne, the English model and actress, have co-created Exhale, a new eco-conscious yoga collection. The new line is said to use at least 70 percent recycled polyester, and to fully offset any unavoidable carbon emissions. The Exhale collection comprises a high-waist full tight, studio bras, a knit ...
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Burton wants to see more female snowboarders in Sweden
Snowboarding has been expanding in Sweden lately. Starting with the current winter season, Burton Snowboards and the Swedish Ski Association have entered a collaboration to promote snowboarding among women, giving them an opportunity to try out the sport. Burton is partnering with the organization on projects like ProgSession and its ...
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Fila’s new collection celebrates the brand's 100th anniversary
To produce its 110th Anniversary Collection, Fila has been working with Katie Grand, the British stylist, creative director and founder of The Perfect Magazine. Grand has “edited” a number of archival Fila items – involving tennis, mountaineering, watersports, athletics, basketball, golf and motorsports – for their re-issue. Fila says he ...
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News briefsNike products are sold on Lidl’s marketplaces in Germany and Spain
Nike has released the following statement in reaction to an article published on our website on Feb. 15: ”Lidl is not a partner in Nike’s marketplace strategy and we are not selling product to their business.” A spokeman for Nike would not say, however, whether it is in litigation with ...
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Council of Europe adopts two resolutions on sports
The 16th Conference of Ministers responsible for Sport of the Council of Europe has adopted two resolutions. The first one, titled “A European approach to sport policies: the revision of the European Sports Charter,” is meant to “facilitate access to sports for all layers of society,” largely through investments in ...
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Falling sales for Goldwin
Goldwin is projecting decreases of 10.1 percent in sales and 28.5 percent in operating profit for the financial year ending on March 31. In the nine months through Dec. 31, 2020, its net sales declined by 8.7 percent to 69.2 billion yen (€540m-$660m), leading to a 16.2 percent drop in ...
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Head to sponsor Spain’s Warriors Tour
Head has become the exclusive technical partner of the Spanish Warriors Tour for the next three years. The tournament, which is backed by Spain’s Royal Tennis Federation (RFET), has seen the participation of young players under the age of 15 for the past 15 years. The 2021 edition will be ...
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Speedo partners with a Finnish retailer to promote swimming
Acting in cooperation with a Finnish retail member of Intersport, Speedo has signed a multi-year sponsorship deal with the Finnish Swimming Association. As part of the agreement, Intersport Sello will launch two online stores, one for active swimmers and other for recreational swimmers. The aim is to develop the position ...
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Itochu and Aquafil join forces to sell recycled nylon
The Japanese trading company Itochu and the Italian chemicals firm Aquafil have entered a partnership to promote the sale of the latter’s Econyl fiber and to expand the circular nylon production. In 2011, Aquafil created the Econyl Regeneration System, which turns recovered nylon waste such as fishing nets, carpets and ...
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News briefsUvex safety group starts production of respiratory protection masks
Source: Uvex Saety Group uvex silv-Air lite mask To secure the supply of high-quality respiratory protection products, the Uvex Safety Group is investing in an in-house production facility for FFP2 respiratory protection masks in cooperation with a manufacturer of household products, Fackelmann. With production in France, ...
