News Briefs – Page 276
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Surf Expo was held physically in Florida
Not all the industry’s trade shows are being held virtually these days. Without giving any attendance figures yet, Emerald Holding has reported on a successful in-person edition of its Surf Expo show, held from Jan. 6-8 as planned in Orlando, Florida. A total of 321 exhibitors registered for the event. ...
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JD may want to buy Topshop in partnership with ABG
JD Sports Fashion is partnering with the U.S.-based Authentic Brands Group (ABG) in a possible bid for Topshop, the big U.K.-based chain of fashion stores, which is regarded as the most important asset of the bankrupt Arcadia Group, according to Sky News. Other bidders for this and other assets of ...
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Stride introduces a “multi-use connected fitness machine”
A Taiwanese start-up, Stride, has introduced a machine for the “space-constrained” and “motivationally challenged.” Its Transformer is described as a “multi-use connected fitness machine” that provides biking, running and rowing modes as well as strength cables, but takes up no more room than a treadmill. Sensors in the Transformer feed ...
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Livall unveils new smart cycling helmets at CES
Livall has introduced its new C20 and BH51M Neo products at the virtual CES 2021 consumer electronics show. Livall C20 is a helmet for the city commuter, with a smart lighting system that switches on automatically in the dark. The C20 also features brake warning lights as well as a ...
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Puma introduces a compression boot
Puma has launched a football boot, called the Future Z 1.1, with a mid-foot compression band, itself called the Fuzionfit+. The band combines polyester and spandex yarns, while the boot’s upper is made of a coated, knitted material. Neymar da Silva Santos and Marco Reus from the Paris Saint-Germain and ...
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Decathlon unveils a post-mastectomy sports bra
Kalenji, Decathlon’s brand for jogging and runnning, has collaborated with France’s Centre Oscar Lambret (Oscar Lambret Center) on the development of the Jogkokoon+, a sports bra specifically designed for women with breast cancer who have undergone mastectomy. Centre Oscar Lambret is the regional center for the fight against cancer of ...
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Titleist and Footjoy to sponsor Women’s Golf Day
Joining the list of golf brands and organizations that support the 2021 Women’s Golf Day (WGD), Titleist and FootJoy have signed up as the event’s official golf ball and official footwear sponsors, respectively. The WGD is a collaborative effort by a team of golf management companies, retailers and other organizations ...
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New Norwegian country manager for XXL
Taking the place of Andre Sørensen, who is leaving the post for family reasons, Stine Trygg-Hauger will take over by June 1 as the new CEO of XXL in Norway, the sporting goods retail chain’s biggest market. Trygg Hauger, who is 38 years old, has been running the 90-store Norwegian ...
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Prioritizing Covid-19 vaccine for athletes may ensure Tokyo Games take place
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to July-August 2021, but the recent resurgence of Covid-19 cases, in Japan as elsewhere, is leaving uncertainty over the actual chances that the event will take place. According to Dick Pound, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), prioritizing ...
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Yue Yuen’s manufacturing revenues fall by 27%
Yue Yuen’s revenues from footwear manufacturing fell by 27 percent in terms of U.S. dollars in 2020, including a drop of 16 percent in December. The group’s retail subsidiary, Pou Sheng, improved its sales by 1 percent thanks to a strong finish of the year, with sales up by 11 ...
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FW uses Polartec materials for new collection
FW Apparel of France has made use of materials by Polartec for its autumn/winter 2020-21 collection. The alpine-style Manifest Tour Hybrid Pants PFL and Hybrid Hoodie PFL – retailing for about €200 and €370 respectively – employ a recycled material, Polartec Alpha, in their middle, temperature-regulating layers. According to FW’s ...
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Naomi Osaka is a new ambassador of Louis Vuitton
Naomi Osaka will be Louis Vuitton’s newest brand ambassador from the world of sports. The financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed. As part of the deal, the 23-year old tennis star and three-time Grand Slam winner will be featured in Louis Vuitton’s campaign for its spring-summer 2021 ...
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Auclair sponsors the Fearless Finns
Auclair, the Canadian brand of ski gloves founded in 1945, has struck a multi-year partnership with Ski Sport Finland and its team of professional athletes, who are often referred to as the Fearless Finns. Auclair has been a partner of the Canadian national ski teams for more than 30 years. ...
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News briefsBurton and Polartec introduce the One World collection
Source: Burton Under the name Burton Polartec One World, Burton Snowboards has collaborated with its longtime textile solutions partner Polartec to create a capsule collection made from recycled materials. Its launch is accompanied by a film by the same name that is also a tribute to the ...
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New international sales director at Protective
Jörg Kazubek has assumed the position of international sales director at Protective, the German cycling apparel brand. He looks back on more than 30 years of experience in the industry and in sales. During his 14 years at Thaler Sports, he worked his way up from customer services manager to ...
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U.K., Canada to restrict business with Xinjiang, China
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in the U.K. is seeking to separate British organizations from the extra-judicial detentions and forced labor that Uyghur Muslims and other minorities are undergoing at the hands of the ruling Chinese Communist Party in the province of Xinjiang. Citing “proof from the Chinese authorities’ ...
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Deporvillage more than doubles its annual sales
Deporvillage’s tenth-anniversary year was one for the record books. In 2020 the Spanish e-tailer of sporting goods raised its annual turnover by 105 percent toa n unprecedented level of €120 million, exceeding by 60 percent the company’s own projection of €75 million. The pandemic-related lockdowns were, of course, the driving ...
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Plans for a large casual apparel manufacturing hub in China
A special event – the first “Guiping China International Cultural Tourism and Casual Sportswear Festival” – was organized at Mule Town in Guiping, in China’s Guangxi region, on Jan. 1, to mark the start of the development of the Guiping Textile and Garment Industrial Park. The industrial development involves 11 ...
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Survey finds that 80% of Japanese people want Tokyo 2020 postponed or cancelled
According to a telephone poll by Kyodo News, around 80 percent of Japanese people would like this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo to be postponed or even cancelled. Japan is currently struggling with a resurgence of Covid-19 cases. The cities of Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa, and Chiba entered into ...
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New Accademia Creativi Montebelluna in Italy’s Sportsystem district
The new Accademia Creativi Montebelluna (Montebelluna Creative Academy) brings together designers and professionals from the footwear and sporting goods sector of the so-called Montebelluna Sportsystem industrial cluster, in Italy’s northeast. Its general aim is to safeguard and transmit the cluster’s technical know-how to the new generations. The chairman of the ...
