News Briefs – Page 280
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News briefsNice Footwear is in negotiations with other brands
Nice Footwear, an Italian company specialzing in sneakers, has reported orders for more than €12 million for the spring/summer season and expects to finish the full financial year, ending on April 30, 2021, with sales of more than €20 million in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the last financial ...
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Hestra donates gloves to refugees, starts fund-raiser with UNHCR
Hestra, the Swedish brand of sports gloves founded in 1936, has donated 10,000 children’s gloves to refugee children in winter camps around the world through the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). UNHCR is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees who ...
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TÜV Süd introduces vegan product certification
TÜV Süd, the globally active auditing and testing company headquartered in southern Germany, has introduced vegan product certification to ensure that apparel, footwear and textiles are neither made of nor finished with animal-derived materials – such as leather, fur, fibers (wool, silk), glue, dyes and chemical substances (beeswax, carmine dye ...
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Outdoor Research names a “Vice President of People and Culture”
Outdoor Research (OR) has added Brett Kruse to its leadership team with the intriguing new title of ”vice president of people and culture,” where he will lead the company’s human relations initiatives. Most recently, Kruse worked at Starbucks for more than a decade in HR and operations. Prior to that, ...
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Spalding is switching distributors in Europe
United Sports Brands is set to become the distributor of Spalding’s basketballs and related equipment for most of Europe. It will be taking over the license from Germany’s Uhlsport, which has held the rights since 2002. According to Patrick Cloots, its senior vice president for international business, United Sports Brands ...
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Sport 2000 Gigasport is Sports Retailer of the Year in Austria
Sport 2000 Austria is delighted that two of its retail members are among the three winners of this year’s Austrian sports business award, Victor. First place went to Sport 2000 Gigasport, with Bründl Sports, a former Intersport member located in Kaprun, coming in second. Sport 2000 Simon from Saalfelden made ...
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Australian activewear firm sued over alleged anti-virus clothes
Lorna Jane, a manufacturer and retailer of women’s activewear with headquarters in Brisbane, is being taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for allegedly making a false claim that a range of its activewear could provide protection against Covid-19. In July the company released its “anti-virus ...
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WFSGI joins the Centre for Sport and Human Rights
The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) has joined the Advisory Council of the Centre for Sport and Human Rights (CSHR), based in Geneva. The CSHR is chaired by Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Centre is exclusively ...
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Spalding releases new limited-edition basketball honoring Kobe Bryant
Spalding is releasing the Kobe “Hall of Fame” basketball, the third installment in a series celebrating the career of the late Kobe Bryant. This launch follows that of the Silver and Kobe Marbled Snake variations earlier this year. The new ball features a two-tone motif and two-half design. The gold ...
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Under Armour completes the sale of MyFitnessPal
Under Armour has announced that it has completed the sale of the MyFitnessPal platform to Francisco Partners, a global investment firm specializing in technology businesses and headquartered in San Francisco. As previously announced by Under Armour in a news release on Oct. 30, the sale has a transaction value of ...
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Dubai-based GMG Group acquires Royal Sporting House
Gulf Marketing Group (GMG) has acquired Royal Sporting House from the Al-Futtaim Group. The financial details of the deal have not been disclosed. GMG Sports, one of GMG’s divisions, is described as the largest sports retailer and distributor in the Middle East, with more than 200 stores across the Gulf ...
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News briefsAdidas collaborates with a porcelain manufactory
Adidas is collaborating with Europe’s oldest porcelain manufactory, Meissen, on a very expensive leather sneaker with ceramic overlays. The ZX800 was inspired by Meissen’s “Krater” vase of 1856, with its 130 floral patterns. Of these, 15 were selected for hand-painting on each pair. One pair of the sneakers is being ...
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Head to set up a subsidiary in Norway
Head Sport has decided to handle its own distribution in Norway, establishing a foothold of its own in Oslo on Jan. 1, 2021. The switch is occasioned by the bankruptcy in February of Gresvig, which has been Head’s Norwegian distributor for 20 years. The brand will be taking advantage of ...
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News briefsEverlast signs ‘The Curse’
Everlast Worldwide, the British fighting sports brand, has signed its first multi-year equipment and apparel sponsorship deal with a female athlete from the U.K., specifically Northern Ireland. The 28-year-old athlete, Leah “The Curse” McCourt, competes in mixed martial arts with Bellator and trains with Conor McGregor’s striking coach, Owen Roddy, ...
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Major burglary at Specialized headquarters
The headquarters of Specialized Bicycle Components in Morgan Hill, California, was hit by a daytime break-in and robbery on Sunday, Dec. 13. According to reports in The Mercury News, the thieves stole 18 high-value bicycles worth more than $160,000 in total. Police officers were called at about 4:35 pm by ...
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Moncler partners with Extreme E
Moncler will provide Extreme E, the new electric SUV off-road racing series, with a dedicated uniform for its remote races. The co-branded uniforms include outerwear as well as other items like T-shirts, sweatshirts, soft accessories and shoes for a mix of terrains. Extreme E, founded by Alejandro Agag and Gil ...
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Superdry inks underwear and sleepwear deal with Neymar
Superdry has announced a three-year partnership with Neymar Jr. on a 100 percent organic underwear and sleepwear collection. The British sportswear brand, which is strong in activewear, has committed to become a 100 percent organic cotton brand by 2030. The relationship with the Brazilian football star will also see Superdry ...
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Asics joins The Fashion Pact
Asics has become the first Japanese company to join The Fashion Pact, a global coalition of companies in the fashion and textile industry, including their suppliers and distributors, committed to key environmental goals. The Fashion Pact focuses in particular on three areas: mitigating climate change, restoring biodiversity, and protecting the ...
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Golf industry veteran Ken Graham to retire at the end of the year
Ken Graham has announced that he will retire at the end of 2020. During his 44-year career in the golf industry, Graham has worked for some of the most recognized golf brands. He started in 1976 at Slazenger when he was just 19 years old, and spent 10 years with ...
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TaylorMade Golf signs up Tommy Fleetwood
TaylorMade has announced the signing of a new equipment deal with Tommy Fleetwood. The announcement was made via a video on TaylorMade’s Twitter feed. Fleetwood, who is 29 years old, plays on the European Tour. The English professional golfer has been playing with TaylorMade irons since 2019. He was with ...
