News Briefs – Page 312
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Pádel now has its own lobby
The Clúster Internacional del Pádel (CIP) is officially established as of this month as a global development platform for the Spanish version of paddle tennis, with its membership now open to any pádel-related raw-materials supplier, manufacturer, distributor, importer/exporter, retailer, service provider or club anywhere in the world. The CIP’s founding ...
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Showrooms hold show of their own in Madrid
About 30 sports brands with showrooms located in close proximity of the Tribeca de Alcobendas complex – in the Spanish city of Alcobendas, within the autonomous community of Madrid – have decided to organize a group show. Open Showroom Madrid, as they have called it, will be open to retail-industry ...
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Engelhorn cooperates with Rose Bike
Engelhorn, the big German sports and fashion retailer based in Mannheim, and Rose Bike, the German bike company, have signed a cooperation agreement. In August, both partners will open a Rose Bike shop-in-shop inside the bike department of Engelhorn Sports’ big store in Mannheim. Catering to a growing demand for ...
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News briefsMizuno launches a new energy-return footwear technology, Mizuno Enerzy
Mizuno is introducing Mizuno Enerzy, an innovative footwear technology that has been designed to deliver high energy return and enhanced softness. The purpose of the technology, which is the result of more than two years of development and testing, is to allow athletes to retain more of the energy that ...
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Clim8 enters North America
Clim8, the French company founded in 2016, has announced its expansion into the North American market. Clim8 is the developer of an innovative, patented thermal management technology that has already been launched in collaboration with premium brands in Europe (Odlo, Ixon) and South Korea (K2 Korea). Having already established important ...
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JD boosts its Iberian store count
According to CMDsport, JD Sports has managed to open three new stores on the Iberian Peninsula – in or around Malaga, Ceuta and Oporto – amid all the re-openings of the post-pandemic. The highlight of the British retail chain’s new stores was the one that opened on June 13 in ...
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Saucony opens a store in Shanghai
Saucony has inaugurated a store in Shanghai, at Super Brand Mall, in collaboration with its local partner Xtep. The 122-year-old running shoe brand plans to open brick-and-mortar stores in other Chinese cities.
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FISE Montpellier goes digital
FISE has announced the first web-only version of FISE Montpellier, its international action sports festival. The decision follows the cancelation of the 24th edition of the current event in France over health and safety measures related to the coronavirus. The e-Fise Montpellier by Honor webseries will be held from July ...
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Two more Salomon stores in Germany
Salomon is opening new stores in Frankfurt and Cologne, indicating that they are based on an “epicenter strategy” to raise brand awareness and help local retail partners create synergies and increase sales. The stores will focus on road running, trail running, hiking and backpacking as well as general sportswear, skiwear ...
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Decathlon and Sprinter grow in Spain
Decathlon has reported sales growth of 2.9 percent in Spain to €1,952 million, including VAT, for 2019. Sales over the internet went up by 17 percent to €136 million in the country. The number of stores increased by six to a total of 171. Meanwhile, after checking the public record, ...
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Moody’s downgrades Boardriders’ debt
Moody’s has changed its outlook for Boardriders’ debt from stable to negative, considering the effects of Covid-19 in terms of temporary store closures and declines in discretionary consumer spending. With only $100 million in cash on its balance sheet and $15 million in credit availability as of May 20, the ...
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South African trade magazine makes a pause
South Africa’s leading trade publication in the sporting goods sector, Sport Trader, will have to be “paused for the time being,” because of the coronavirus pandemic. Nicol and Trudi du Toit bought the 40-year-old magazine 23 years ago, and they have continued to run it together with their daughter, Carin ...
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Under Armour’s athletics segment and supply chain benefit from the crisis
According to its chief executive and chief financial officer, respectively Patrik Frisk and Dave Bergman, Under Armour is emerging from the pandemic with a sharper focus on the athletic-performance segment and an overhauled supply chain. Speaking at the Stifel Cross Sector Insights Conference, they noted that Covid-19 quarantines focused many ...
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Hudora appoints new joint chief executive
Hudora appointed Pieter Coelewij as joint chief executive on June 9. He had been a sales director for Hudora since last August. The native Dutchman was previously the CEO of the Royal Jumbo Group, which develops, manufactures and sells games, puzzles and toys. Until 2007, he was the manager for ...
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Decathlon expands its product offering in Franprix stores
Decathlon is stepping up its partnership with Franprix, a French grocery store chain, to help French people stay fit. As we have already reported (SGI Europe Vol. 31 N°15+16), the two companies teamed up in April to sell five Decathlon products – training mats, dumbbells, elastics, jumping ropes and abdominal ...
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French sport specialist retailers’ sales drop by 21%, but online sales are up 85%
According to a recent panel survey by the French federation of specialist retailers (Procos), specialist retailers across all sectors in the country suffered a 31.8 percent sales decline in the first half of the year as compared with the same period in 2019, but their online sales grew by 50 ...
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Polygiene announces ViralOff+ with lifetime washability
Polygiene announced at a press conference that it is developing a new formula for its ViralOff technology that will provide a testable lifetime of virus reduction in garments. Products treated with the new ViralOff+ will continue to reduce more than 99 percent of viruses within two hours, even after 30 ...
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Progress in textiles sustainability is steady but slow, Textile Exchange says
Global fiber production attained around 110 million meters in 2019, representing a 30 percent increase over the past 10 years, and is expected to rise by another 30 percent to 146 million meters in 2030 if the current trend continues. According to the latest “Preferred Fiber & Materials Market Report” ...
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Eurobike goes hybrid
Eurobike is going for a hybrid offline/online format. It will be a purely B2B event. The physical trade show will take place in Friedrichshafen from Nov. 24 to 26 instead of September. On the other hand, Messe Friedrichshafen will hold a digital conference on Sept. 1, calling it the “Bike ...
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Garmin acquires Firstbeat Analytics
According to the business website ZDNet, Garmin has acquired Firstbeat Analytics, a Finnish company whose software uses heart data recorded by wearable devices to measure stress, sleep, maximum rate of oxygen consumption (VO2 max), training status, the effects of training, rate of respiration and calories burned. Garmin intends to incorporate ...
